Swachh Bharat: PSUs to construct 50,000 toilets across the country

As part of the Swachh Bharat campaign, PSUs like Coal India and NTPC will construct 50,000 toilets in schools across the nation in a year.

New Delhi: As part of the Swachh Bharat campaign, PSUs like Coal India and NTPC will construct 50,000 toilets in schools across the nation in a year.

"The PSUs...will construct 50,000 toilets in schools all over the country within next one year up to August 2015," an official statement said, adding that the work on 1001 toilets will begin on October2, in various states.

Coal India will construct 400 toilets, while NTPC 240 of them.

"For the construction of these toilets, 50 percent of the corporate social responsibility budget will be earmarked during the financial year 2014-15 and 2015-16," the statement said.

States where the toilets will be constructed include, Bihar, Chhattissgarh, Jharkhand, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu and Assam

The Prime Minister's mission to achieve 'Swachh Bharat' by 2019 is a tribute to Mahatma Gandhi on his 150th birth anniversary.

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