446 families below the poverty line applied for latrines under this programme last year in Bochadanga Panchayat. The Rs 123,800 they contributed has been returned by CADC Kaliaganj. Proshikha could not manage to complete their work either. Now Chatrapur Vivekananda Ramakrishna Samitary Mart has been approached. We heard that many other families will be rejected as they do not have BPL cards. This is different from Janani Suraksha Yojana where the village Prodhan can attest that the family of a pregnant woman is poor. Maybe some simplification of the process to get latrines will help speed up the process. There is now a huge amount of unmet demand for sanitation in rural areas.
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