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On October 2, the Andhra Pradesh government launched the Clean Andhra Pradesh (CLAP)- Jagananna Swachh Sankalpam programme with public engagement to clean up rural regions, improve sanitation, and waste management. Garbage is not to be dumped on the streets in rural areas; instead, it is to be given to the garbage collector.
To kick off the campaign, Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy announced the deployment of 4,097 rubbish collection vehicles. Garbage collection directly from rural households was only 22% at the end of November, but it had risen to 61.50 percent by the end of January.
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Several Gram Panchayat officials have already begun posting photographs of garbage-free village roads and streets on social media. Peddireddy Ramachandra Reddy, the Minister of Panchayat Raj, stated that by October of this year, they will have met all of the CLAP goals, including collecting 100% of rural household rubbish.
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Has the campaign achieved anything yet?
Prior to the beginning of CLAP, UNICEF WASH held an online training programme on sanitation for over 13,000 sarpanches and 1,200 district and mandal authorities (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene).
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Gram panchayat personnel and officials, health workers, members of the government-created village and ward secretariats, and members of the Zilla and Mandal Parishad Territorial Constituencies have all been deployed by the government.
The door-to-door collection programme has reached 60% of houses and will reach 100% by October of this year, but officials warn it will be difficult to maintain complete cleanliness because many people continue to litter and discard waste carelessly. According to Panchayat Raj Minister Peddireddy Ramachandra Reddy, the waste segregation and sewage water treatment goals are also being met slowly.
What else does the CLAP want to achieve?
Apart from garbage pickup from door to door, the programme promotes the separation of liquid and solid waste, onsite waste treatment, and home composting.
Eliminate open defecation
Another important goal is to eliminate open defecation in rural regions. Over 13,000 sarpanches have been “strictly commanded” to lead the Open Defecation Free (ODF) campaign from the front and ensure that their villages remain ODF by the end of 2022.
“A village that maintains its ODF status, assures solid and liquid waste management, and is visually clean” is what an ODF + village is characterised as. The Andhra administration wants the state to be litter-free and garbage-free by the end of this year.
The treatment of sewage water at 582 locations across the state employing soil biotechnology treatment, wetland treatment, and waste stabilisation ponds is a more complicated endeavour.
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