Secretary has been constituted to frame an appropriate policy for undertaking regularisation of casual and need-based workers. He said, "We contemplate to construct 94,091 individual household toilets, 2,078 community toilets and ensuring Open Deification Free (ODF) towns and cities. He said steps are being taken to get 21 towns in the state declared as ODF by March. Four AMRUT cities - Jammu, Srinagar, Anantnag & Kargil - have also been proposed to be declared ODF whereas 36 wards have been declared as ODF by JMC and Leh town has also been declared as ODF in 2016. (This article has not been edited by DNA's editorial team and is auto-generated from an agency feed.)

Source: dna January 28, 2017 09:48 UTC