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Over 600 State and District-level SBM-G Since the PRI members, such as Mukhiyas
officials, including State-level consultants, and Ward members, play influential roles in
District coordinators, District consultants the community, trainings were provided to
and Block coordinators participated in Mukhiyas from 4,295 GPs in the Financial
the State-level training and graduated Years (FYs) 2021–22 and 2022–23, and all
as SLWM MTs. Orientation sessions on members from 56,800 Wards where SLWM
the implementation of SLWM were also work is underway.
conducted for the District Development
Commissioners (DDCs), Directors of Furthermore, over 3,200 sanitation
DRDAs, and BDOs of 533 Blocks across all supervisors, responsible for managing and
38 Districts, as well as approximately 600 monitoring SLWM implementation at the GP
officials from the MGNREGA in each Block. level, were trained.

utcome

Under SBM-G, one or two sanitation workers were deployed

in each GP for door-to-door waste collection and disposal
at WPUs. Currently, approximately 81,000 sanitation

workers are actively engaged in waste collection and its
management across 56,800 wards where SLWM initiatives

are being implemented. These workers have been trained to
understand the core components of ODF Plus.

In addition to the aforementioned stakeholders, concerned

officials from the departments of MGNREGA and Agriculture,
teachers, Swachhagrahis, Anganwadi Workers (AWWs),
FLWs, etc., were also trained. Overall, the capacities of

1.47 lakh stakeholders were significantly strengthened

through these efforts.

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