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Now Govt to monitor toilet use under 'Clean India' mission

| | Jan 01, 2015, at 07:33 pm
New Delhi, Jan 1 (IBNS): As part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's much-touted "Clean India" mission, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) will not monitor whether people across the country are using toilets, media reports said.

The drive will begin from Thursday with officials keeping a watch using iPads, tablets and mobile phones and will report to the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation on the matter.

An official release said that the nationwide “real-time monitoring” of toilets is vital to PM Modi's call to end open defecation in India by 2019.

The communiqué said that earlier the government used to monitor the construction of toilets but now it will keep an eye on the actual use of toilets on a sustained basis.

Reports said that it is also adding around two dozen additional staff including two joint secretaries rank officials and other officials to implement targets under PM Modi’s “Swachh Bharat” drive.

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