Panel formed for Swachh Bharat Mission

Tribune News Service

Jammu, March 16

The state government today constituted a 13-member state-level Apex Committee for implementation of the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) in Jammu and Kashmir.

The committee will be headed by the Chief Secretary, while Administrative Secretaries of the Planning and Development Department, Finance Department, Public Health Engineering Department, Irrigation and Flood Control Department, Health and Medical Education Department, Housing and Urban Development Department, Information Department, Department of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, Mission Director of rural sanitation, Commissioners of Jammu and Srinagar Municipal Corporations and Directors of local bodies of Kashmir and Jammu will be the members.

As per the terms, the committee will aid and advise the state mission, approve annual implementation plans, appropriate staff structure for the mission as per guidelines, engage consultants specialist and other persons required under the guidelines, incentives for Gram Panchayats and work force at the Gram Panchayat-level or urban local bodies-level and authorise action or proposal relevant for the successful implementation of the mission.

The committee will be serviced by the Department of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj and the Housing and Urban Development Department.

On the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi on October 2 last year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had launched the Swacch Bharat Mission with an aim to create a clean India.