HIMALAYAN NEWS SERVICE
KATHMANDU: The government, it seems, will fail to achieve the target of providing sanitation and drinking water access to all by 2017, if what it has achieved so far is anything to go by.The government has been able to declare only 203, out of total 3,915 VDCs, open-defecation-free zones till date. In two years, Nepal must upgrade the access of sanitation facilities by 10 per cent to achieve its three-year interim plan. At present, nearly 50 per cent of the total population have sanitation facilities whereas the interim plan has set the target to increase it up to 65 per cent.The country is marking the 12th National Sanitation Week from tomorrow with a slogan ‘Sanitation for Health, Dignity and Development’.
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KATHMANDU: The government, it seems, will fail to achieve the target of providing sanitation and drinking water access to all by 2017, if what it has achieved so far is anything to go by.The government has been able to declare only 203, out of total 3,915 VDCs, open-defecation-free zones till date. In two years, Nepal must upgrade the access of sanitation facilities by 10 per cent to achieve its three-year interim plan. At present, nearly 50 per cent of the total population have sanitation facilities whereas the interim plan has set the target to increase it up to 65 per cent.The country is marking the 12th National Sanitation Week from tomorrow with a slogan ‘Sanitation for Health, Dignity and Development’.
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