10.2.14

Sikkim - first state to clock 100% sanitation

Sikkim has become the first state to achieve more than 100% sanitation in rural and urban households, schools, sanitary complexes and Anganwadi centres, an official release stated.
All 6,10,577 inhabitants in Sikkim have latrines with high sanitation and hygiene standards, it said. The Himalayan state has constructed 98,043 individual household latrines against the target of 87,014 till January, thus achieving 112.67% target under Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan scheme, implemented by the Union ministry of drinking water and sanitation, the release said.
A total of 1,772 schools have been covered under the sanitation programme as against the target of 1,604 schools, thus achieving 110.47% of the goal.
Achieving 140.05% success, altogether 1,105 sanitary complexes were constructed against the target of 789. Also, a 151.76% target was achieved with a total of 516 Anganwadi toilets constructed in the state as against the target of 340. 

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