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Toilets being used to store food grains: Jairam Ramesh

Updated on: 06 July,2012 04:56 PM IST  | 
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Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh today said that toilets in the country are being used to store food grains.

Toilets being used to store food grains: Jairam Ramesh

Decrying the lack of proper sanitation facilities, Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh today said toilets built over the last 10 years across the country are being used for storing food grain.


"In last 10 years, toilets have been built (across the country)...But toilets are not being used for the purpose for which they had been built. They are being used for storing food grain...they have been turned into storage godowns and they have been locked," Ramesh said.u00a0


The minister chaired a regional review meeting on drinking water supply and sanitation in which representatives from Punjab, Uttarakhand, Haryana, Sikkim, Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh participated.


Asked about states where toilets were being used for storing food grain, Ramesh said Punjab was one of them where this practice was being followed.

Not optimistic of achieving the target of making India an open-defecation free country in next 10 years, Ramesh said there were several big states like Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Orissa where it would take at least 15-20 years to become open-defecation free.

Asserting that 60 per cent people in the country still defecate in the open, Ramesh said that the Centre had set a target to become open-defecation free under the 'Nirmal Bharat Abhiyaan' in the next ten years.u00a0

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