A small fishing hamlet in Villupuram district has shown the way in realizing the Union government's ambitious campaign, `Swach Bharath Abhiyan'. The panchayat has established a clean, green and inexpensive sewage treatment plant with technical expertise from a team in Pondicherry University and has been running the plant successfully for the past one year.

“A year ago sewage used to stagnate in the locality , giving out a foul smell. The stagnant water that used to be a breeding ground for mosquitoes compounded our misery ,“ said Chinnakalapet panchayat president R Nagaraj.The Pondicherry University team's help in setting up the sewage water treatment plant changed everything. “Now the place is clean without stagnation of water and there is no foul smell in the air,“ he said..............Read more

Source: The Times of India