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All Telangana State Schools to Have Toilets By Next Year

All the schools in Telangana will have toilet facilities by August next year. Panchayat raj minister KT Rama Rao, who released a vision document recently, stated that all the schools in the state will have toilet facilities.

The minister, who conducted a review meeting at the Secretariat here on Monday, directed the officials to achieve the target by August 15 next year. Education minister G Jagadish Reddy was also present at the meeting.

The minister directed the officials to furnish information within a week about those schools which lack toilets. He said that the Central government would give a financial assistance of Rs 55,000 for constructing one toilet in the schools. ‘’The state government is willing to contribute the matching grant given by the Centre for construction of toilets,” Rama Rao said.

Jagadish Reddy said that the required funds for toilets would be given by his department.

Source: The New Indian Express

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