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NAGAPATTINAM: Ecosan toilet is considered as the best model throughout the world to suit all terrains as also high-water table and sandy coastal areas, said P. Amudha, Executive Director of Tamil Nadu Women’s Development Corporation, on Saturday. Addressing a function after inaugurating the first compost chamber of the ecosan toilet in the tsunami-affected Kameshwaram village in the district, she said that even though Tamil Nadu was a trendsetter and model to other States in many fields, the people of Tamil Nadu were reluctant to construct toilets or use them they had built. The excuse often given was that they had no money and that there was no water for maintenance of the toilets, she said. Mrs. Amudha pointed out that the ecosan toilet was considered the best model in the world to suit all terrains and said that the ‘Ecosan,’ popularised by SCOPE (Society for Community Organisation and Peoples’ Education), a pioneering NGO in the field of sanitation was a big blessing to wipe out a social stigma of Indian society, where until recently a particular community was engaged in removing human excreta manually. Mrs. Amudha said that ecosan should be looked as a holistic solution for sustainable environment and healthy living and not as a method of disposing off human excreta. M. Subburaman, Director, SCOPE, and a consultant for UNICEF in training for ecosan toilet construction said that ecosan toilet was now being considered as a very good toilet model in the coastal areas where water table was high. Other forms of toilets such as pit latrine or septic tank toilets would not function properly in high water table areas. The State Government, UNICEF and FIN, an NGO of France, had supported SCOPE in its very challenging task of popularising ecosan toilets in tsunami-hit areas. Shanthi Mathikumar, vice-president of Kameshwaram panchayat, said that she had constructed the first ecosan toilet after fully convinced of the advantages of the model. Nearly 250 families had built the ecosan toilets in the village. C.G. Kanagasundaram, president of the Kameshwaram panchayat who presided, said that efforts would be made to make Kameshwaram a model sanitation village for solid waste management and liquid waste management. S. Sooryakala, Project Officer, Women’s Development Corporation, said that self-help group members would take up construction of ecosan toilets in coastal areas.
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