Sunday, July 15, 2018

Tripura Deputy CM launches IHHL project at Sepahijala



Deputy Chief Minister Jishnu Debbarma launched a project of making 400 numbers of Individual House Hold Latrines (IHHL) in Sepahijala district on Saturday.
Under this project, which is a joint initiative of Tripura government and ONGC, the toilets will be installed at the Charilam block of Sepahijala District. In the launching ceremony held at the multipurpose hall of Sepahijala district at Bishramganj, Deputy CM was accompanied by District Magistrate Dr. B. Kaur and Asset Manager of ONGC Tripura Asset Mr. G.K. Singha Roy among others.
Formally launching the project Dy. CM said, to make the vision of Prime Minister Narendra Modi of making the country Open Defecation Free (ODF) latest by 2nd. October, 2019, Tripura Govt. is taking all out efforts. He profusely thanked ONGC for providing support in this noble Endeavour. He further appreciated ONGC for taking up projects on inclusive and sustainable development in Tripura. He lauded Asset Manager Mr. G.K. Singha Roy for showing his concern for development of the state.
District magistrate of Sepahijala Dr. B. Kaur also thanked ONGC for the support. The jam-packed multipurpose hall also witnessed distribution of cheques to beneficiaries.
It is mention worthy that, Sepahijala district is known as a place where the district administration has been putting a lot of effort for its development not only in terms of infrastructure but also towards maintaining Health and Hygiene of the residence. Although majority of this area has become accessible to pacca latrine still there are many blocks where the concept of pacca latrines is not implemented. Charilam Block falls under that bracket. The objective of this project is to make Charilam Block open defecation free.

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