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FSTPs are important for rural and sub-urban can sustain the ODF status of villages and
areas that do not have sewerage systems keep the environment clean and healthy.
and where toilets are of single pit or septic
Implementation of FSTP: WaterAid India
tank type. When single pits or septic tanks
is a development partner that has been
get full, households need to hire desludging
providing support to DDWS, Ministry
operators for mechanized desludging, of Jal Shakti through pilot projects in
transportation and treatment of faecal Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya
sludge at FSTPs. Pradesh. Through a collaboration with the
District administration of Amethi, an FSTP
In the absence of such facilities earlier,
was constructed in Amethi in February
tankers would collect the sludge but dump
2020. For this, 1.92 acres of land were made
it into open drains, canals, ponds and other
available in Benipur GP, around which a
open spaces. This greatly affected the cluster of 11 GPs and one Nagar Panchayat
environment, polluting both land and water was formed. The intervention is in keeping
sources and posing threats to human health. with the SBM-G Phase-II guidelines and the
As per the SBM-G guidelines, effective FSM ODF Plus initiatives being promoted.

utcome

Following a survey of households in the

intervention area and awareness building,
the construction of the FSTP was completed

in September 2021 and the Planted Drying
Bed (PDB) model of FSTP was operational

from October 2021.

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