The Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation has developed a Sanitation Park in collaboration with the Environmental Sanitation Institute and Tata Trusts.
- It was inaugurated by Union Minister, Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation, Uma Bharti, and Secretary, Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation, Parameswaran Iyer in New Delhi.
- The Sanitation Park was developed at CGO Complex in New Delhi with an objective to create awareness on various safe technological options.
Highlights
- It demonstrates various options pertaining to toilet technologies and solid and liquid waste management technologies, with a brief description of these technologies.
- The Sanitation will display information regarding various interventions undertaken under the Swachh Bharat Mission, capturing the success stories and impact created under the Mission across the country.
- It presents the opportunity for the visitors to understand the various components and initiatives of SBM and familiarize themselves with different technologies.
- Sanitation is a major concern for people and especially this problem curtails in the rural areas. Women from rural areas are deprived of the sanitation facilities.
- Apart from the unreachability people in rural areas are even deprived of having appropriate sanitation facility. Therefore this initiative to develop a sanitation park will enable the masses to understand the need and requirement of having sanitation awareness.
