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SAHIBGANJ OBSERVES
LEGACY WASTE
REMOVAL CAMPAIGN
he District administration of Phase-II, it is essential to clear such sites
Sahibganj in Jharkhand has embarked to make a village achieve ODF Plus status.
Ton a legacy waste removal campaign An ODF Plus village is one that effectively
th
from 5 May 2023 onwards to free the 78 manages its solid and liquid waste and is
Namami Gange villages of waste that has visually clean.
been accumulated at dump sites for several
In preparation for the Legacy Waste Removal
months and years.
Campaign, Shri Prabhat Kumar Bardiyar,
Legacy waste is that which has been DDC of Sahibganj organized a meeting of
collected and kept for years at some barren all GP Mukhiyas, SBM-G Division officials,
land or a place dedicated to a landfill or an Sahibganj District and Block team members
area to dump solid waste. Under SBM-G to discuss the implementation strategy
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