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Proposal for sanitation forwarded

Special Correspondent

CHANDIGARH: The Haryana Government has forwarded a proposal for a "complete sanitation campaign'' worth Rs.400 crore to the Centre under which 90,940 individual toilets, 12,967 community women toilets, 4,345 toilets in schools and 9,380 toilets in Anganwari centres would be set up.

Employment

Chief Parliamentary Secretary Dharambir Singh said on Monday that the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme was being implemented in Sirsa and Mahendergarh districts. Under the programme, employment would be ensured for 100 days in a year. So far Rs.15.27 crore had been spent on providing employment to 28,056 families of these districts, he said.

Scheme

The State Government has also requested the Centre to cover Jhajjar, Mewat and Rewari districts under the scheme.

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