Our programme attracted attention nationwide

       It's very happy event for us. 'Intinta Parishudhyam', our flagship programme of constructing toilets for clean environment, attracted the secretaries of Drinking water and Sanitation of all states, in the Conference of State Ministers and secretaries of Rural Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation, held in New Delhi, on 24th May,2012. The conference was inaugurated by the Minister of Rural Development and Minister for Drinking Water and Sanitation Sri Jairam Ramesh. The aim of the Conference was to up-scale achievements and share innovative best practices and models, both in terms of programme implementation and technology.  

         As a result of our programme, I was invited to participate in the meeting to explain the programme, which I did in an effective manner. Addressing the meeting, the Secretary, Drinking Water and Sanitation, Vilasini Ramachandran said that there is need for taking up the sanitation issues on a mission mode fashion. She underlined that the role of women self help groups is very important both in terms of creating awareness and achieving the target of total sanitation. She also laid stress on the IEC( Information, Education and Communication) campaign to create real demands for individual household latrines, which we are already doing. 

      Now the name of the 'Total Sanitation Campaign' changed to 'Nirmal Bharath Abhiyan'. The central government is planning to enhance the unit cost to 9,900 from the present Rs.4,500.

 “INTINTAA PAARISHUDHYAM-

GRAMEENA MAHILALAKU GOPPA VARAM”

One Of the flagship programmes of Medak District Administration is “Intinta Parishudhyam”. The programme aims at construction of One lakh toilets in 100 days. Protecting the self esteem of rural women is one of the major objectives of the programme. Providing sanitation facilities to all, making 502 villages free from open defacation, motivating community to utilize toilets, reducing incidence of water borne diseases, empowering the rural women in sanitation issue are the objectives of the programme.

In Medak district, out of 5,21,018 house holds, only 1,47,437 are with toilet facility. People of other 3,73,581 households are using open area as toilets. To protect the self esteem of rural women, it is needed to construct toilets for them. The ministry of rural water & sanitation of Govt. Of India, appreciated the way the programme is designed and conducted. It has sent a team of representatives to study the programme implementation and impact.

10 FOLD PATH- The strategies

•      Campaign in a phased manner

•      Demand driven approach

•      Roping the entire district administrative mechanism  on the single point agenda

•      Involving the public representatives

•      Involving Community Based Organizations  - Self Help Groups, Youth(NYK), Panchayath Raj Institutions

•      Creating conducive  environment for behavioral change through IEC/BCC activities

•      Bringing convergence of key line depts. – RWS, Rural Development, Education , NREGS, Health, ICDS to have synergy

•      Simplified funds flow mechanism

•      Sanitary Marts

•      Robust monitoring mechanism in place

16 Information, Education & Communication Activities

–     Community Lead Total Sanitation approach                              

•      14 workshops

•      4390 participants – Village Organization  leaders, Mandal Coordinators

–     Village Organization Meetings

•      Conducted in 661 villages

•      348 Village Organizations have passed resolution

–     Kalajathas

•      Performed in 661 villages

•      Conducted rallies, Group Discussion

•      Auto rally was also conducted

–     Sticker Campaign

•      Door to door campaign in 661 villages

•      Covered 3,08,397 households

–     For HHs with toilet -Green sticker

–     For HHs without Toilets- Red sticker

–     Community Mobilization Activities

•       Conducted in 413 villages

•      33,490 participants from SHGs

•      Rangoli, Drawing, Elocution, etc. were conducted for Self- Help group members

–     Convergence Meetings at Constituency level

•      Convergence meetings were conducted at constituency level with 3,640 participants

•      Decided to issue loans to poorest of poor through IKP

–     ZS and MS Meetings

•      46 MSs passed resolution to achieve 100% toilet construction

•      opened 46 Rural Sanitary Mart(RSM) accounts

•      Loans to poorest of poor from CIF

–     Mock Assessment

•      Identified gaps

–     WATSAN facilities in villages

–     Usage of toilets at School & AWC

–     Environmental sanitation
-- Solid  & liquid waste management

–     Village Immersion Program

•      Social mobilization through games

•      Group discussions

•      Village level functionary meeting

•      PRI meetings

•      VO meetings

–     Special Days

•      Global Handwash Day on 15th October

•      World Water Day on 22nd March
--- Exposure visit to TSC/RWSfunctionaries

	45 MRPs, UNICEF  team members visited Gangadevunipalli in Warangal Dist.

Social Mapping

•      Mapped toilets’ status

–         Intinta Paarishudyam – construction of one lakh toilets in 100 days

–     Paarishudya Rathayatra

•      Conducted in  502 villages

--Ugadi Paarisudya Sankalpa Kankanam

•      There is a custom of wearing wrist bonds called 'kankanam' on Ugadi. This tradition is used to make propogonda of Total Sanitation Campaign. 

Constituency level meetings on Intinta Paarishudyam

•      Constituency level meetings on Intinta Paarishudhyam were also conducted. 

Status of Individual Sanitary Latrines  constructions

–     Target ISLs :      14275
---ISLs grounded :  62535
----ISLs completed :39881

TSC 2011-12

•      Target                                                                                   

–     502 Villages

–     272397 Households

–     144163 ISLs

CONSTITUENCY WISE REPORT
(as on 05/05/2012).
Sl. No.	Name of the Constituency	No. of. G.Ps	No. of ISLs
			Target	Sanction orders given	Grounded	in Progress	Completed	% of Grounding	% of Completion
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8		9
1	Siddipet	42	9090	9090	7171	4571	2600	79%	29%
2	Medak	33	10916	10916	5554	4304	1250	51%	11%
3	Andole	79	23478	23478	7956	4305	3651	34%	16%
4	Dubbak	67	17886	17886	5785	2564	3221	32%	18%
5	Gajwel	66	17604	17604	6841	4196	2645	39%	15%
6	Narsapur	66	18558	18558	8234	5036	3198	44%	17%
7	Zaheerabad	49	15060	15060	4433	3287	1146	29%	8%
8	Patancheru	32	8666	8666	4153	1058	3095	48%	36%
9	Narayankhed	40	12870	12870	3405	1936	1469	26%	11%
10	Sangareddy	28	6777	6777	2914	907	2007	43%	30%
	District Total:	502	140905	140905	56446	32164	24282	40%	17%

•      Achievements in 2010-11 campaign

–     Constructed 31185 ISLs

–     About 40 lakh rupees loan to 2160 SHG members as a support to the poor women

–     Achieved 99 NGPs so far.

–     Proposed NGP villages for the year 2012-13       –          153.

                                                                                                 All the concerned officials, people's representatives, rural women are requested to make the programme a grand success. Let's show a path to the world!