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Under the leadership of Ward Member toilets, and the institution uses the leach pit
Santosh Sahoo and Master Trainer (MT) and compost pit to manage their solid and
Benudhar Parida, the SHG women initiated liquid waste. An SHG has been tagged for
the activities in a mission mode. waste management of the village.

The team encouraged all households to To cater to the community and visitors, a
construct individual soak/leach pits and CSC was constructed within the premises
individual compost pits in their backyard. of the Kalyan Mandap. The facility is well-
Till date, 279 households have completed
maintained and has become an additional
constructing these pits.
asset for the community marriage hall.
A decision was taken at a village committee A segregation shed was constructed at
meeting to construct a community compost Bhingarpur GP headquarters under the
pit and community leach pit on the premises leadership of the Sarpanch and with the
of the Maa Jageswari temple. An institutional support of the Block administration. The GP
compost pit was also built inside the campus also purchased a tricycle and appointed a
of Jageswari UG UP school. Moreover, all person to collect waste from households
students in the school have access to school and establishments twice a week.

utcome

With systems in place for SLWM,

visual cleanliness has been
achieved in Jitikar Suanlo village.

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