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A view of the Rural Sanitary Mart in Medavakkam near Tambaram. TAMBARAM: Elected representatives of some of the village panchayats in St. Thomas Mount Panchayat Union (also called St. Thomas Mount Block) have appealed to the District Rural Development Agency to revive the Rural Sanitary Mart in Medavakkam near Tambaram. The Rural Sanitary Mart (RSM) was an outlet to sell materials required for building Individual Household Toilets. Such toilets are being established throughout the country under the Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) of the Central Rural Sanitation Programme of the Ministry of Rural Development and the District Rural Development Agency of the State governments. Damaged by rainsTo facilitate the implementation of Total Sanitation Campaign in St.Thomas Mount Block, the RSM was established in Medavakkam about five years ago. But heavy rains and rise of water level in the ‘soolai thaangal’ damaged the RSM and it not been in operation since then. Ward members in Vengaivaasal, Sithalapakkam and Mudichur, where TSC has met with enormous success, said that owing to the closing down of the facility, beneficiaries of this Central government-assisted scheme were finding it difficult to locate the sanitary equipment. Low cost materialThe RSM used to prepare within its premises toilet pans and cement rings for the choke pits. They used to be sold at low cost and were made as per norms stipulated by the governments. Following inundation of this centre, some of the beneficiaries had to procure the equipment at relatively high prices from private shops. The toilet pans made in RSM would prevent water stagnation and breeding of mosquitoes, unlike those available in the private establishments. Ward members said that the State government agencies concerned should have paid more attention to the needs of the RSM. However government officials said there was no cause for alarm as efforts to provide closed, protected toilets under TSC continued. The government had also worked a plan to revive the RSM and hoped that it would be made operational soon.
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