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Sarpanchs are taking it as a mission to convert their villages into open defecation-free (odf) villages in Jaipur rural area. A total of 154 gram panchayats have declared themselves odf. But, verification by the government to declare them odf will be done soon.

The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHU) have upgraded Surat’s Open Deification Free (odf) City status from odf+ and awarded it odf++ on January 24. This would make Surat a seven star city.

The district administration has initiated several efforts to transform 207 villages under different panchayats in 16 blocks of the district into open defecation free (odf) plus. The cost of making the villages odf plus will be around Rs 13.70 crores.

The Open Defecation Free (odf) scheme has gone beyond making villages free of open defecation and now its extensions even motivate villagers to manage their plastic waste.

In just over nine months, more than 80,000 villages were not only declared odf but with the addition of either solid or liquid waste management facilities or both, they were given the additional tag of odf Plus.

Chief minister Pramod Sawant said on Tuesday that had Goa not been declared open defecation free (odf), then it would have faced embarrassment in the country.

As part of the Swachh Bharat Urban programme, all cities in the state, including Aurangabad, are required to ensure proper functioning of their public and community toilets to qualify as open defecation free (odf) city.

Reconfirming Surat city’s status as Open Defecation free (odf) city, Quality Control of India (QCI) awarded Surat odf+ rating on Wednesday.

The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation after getting the Open Defecation Free Plus status has within a forth night got the odf ++ station. The odf++ status is awarded after inspecting the city facility of having smart toilets, no open drainages and even the city should have adequate Sewerage Treatment plants.