Centre has offered Rs 3 per home as honorarium for carrying out survey
The Swachh Bharat Directorate has directed all local bodies to observe Swachh Bharat Week from June 29 to July 4.
Thiruvananthapuram: The Centre’s ambitious Swachh Bharat scheme – which aims at covering the sanitary requirement of citizens - has landed the Thiruvananthapuram Corporation in a fix as the honorarium offered by the Centre for the workers to undertake door to door survey is too low. The Swachh Bharat National Mission Directorate has given direction to the civic body to immediately undertake a comprehensive survey in all the 100 wards to find out the beneficiaries for the scheme.
The Centre has offered Rs 3 per home as honorarium for carrying out survey and processing Swachh Bharat forms. The civic body requires around 2,000 workers for carrying out the survey. Welfare standing committee chairman Palayam Rajan said the honorarium was far less than expected and it’s difficult to get workers for the purpose.
“We have asked Kudumbashree Mission to do it as a voluntary work. We need a minimum of 16 to 17 workers for conducting the survey in each ward. The survey will focus on waste and sewage management and toilet facility. Normally for surveys the Kerala government pays well,” he told DC. He said that Kudumbashree Mission had been asked to provide volunteers for the purpose at the earliest and a training programme would be conducted for them.
The Swachh Bharat Directorate has directed all local bodies to observe Swachh Bharat Week from June 29 to July 4. However, the civic body here is giving more priority to the survey than the observance of Swachh Bharat Scheme.
“We are already doing various cleaning activities and disease control programmes,” health standing committee chairperson S. Pushpalatha said.
“The survey will help us in a big way. We will have a data base on the requirements of the residents and help us assess the status of the decentralised waste management project we launched”.
( Source : deccan chronicle )
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