City governments in Uttar Pradesh will provide an additional assistance of Rs.12,000 per each individual household toilet to be built in the urban areas of Uttar Pradesh to enable all the 655 statutory cities and towns in the State become ‘Open Defecation Free (ODF)’ by October, 2022, under Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban), launched by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi on October 2, 2014.
In UP, construction of about eight lakh individual household toilets is being targeted out of which 1.56 lakh toilets have so far been built. Under Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban), central and state governments provide assistance of Rs.4,000 each viz., a total of Rs.8,000 per each toilet. Urban Local Bodies will now provide an additional Rs.12,000 each to give a momentum to toilet building.
