After bagging the Centre-sponsored Nirmal Gram Puraskar award in May 2008, the district of East Singhbhum, Jharkhand, was visited on October 21st by an international team researching successful Unicef-sponsored projects across the world. The 17-member team comprising representatives from eight countries of Asia and Africa team visited four villages and schools which had benefited from the Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) and Integrated Village Planning Programme (IVPP) of Unicef.
“The team members were impressed by the design of toilets we are promoting in the district. The village information centre developed under IVPP were also a new thing for the team. The information centres formed by us would help villagers to gather information about government schemes and how it can benefit them,” said a member of the Unicef team.
Abbash Bibakar Adamu of Nigeria, who was part of the team, said: “The district has done a wonderful job under TSC. I would go back and recommend it to the government in my country to provide subsidy for constructing toilets as is being practised here.”
Sources: The Telegraph, 22 Oct 2008 ; The Telegraph, 14 Oct 2008 ; UNICEF India, May 2008
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