Total Sanitation Campaign “TSC”

Total Sanitation Campaign “TSC” (Swajal Uttarakhand, DPMU Rudrapur, Uttarakhand Government) (2004 – 2009)

Introduction:

• Individual health and hygiene is dependent largely on adequate availability of drinking water and proper sanitation.
• In this context the Central Rural Sanitation Progrgamme (CRSP) was launched in 1986.
• The concept of sanitation connotes a comprehensive concept, which includes liquid and solid waste disposal, food hygiene, and personal, domestic as well as environmental hygiene.
• CRSP moves towards a “demand drive” approach.
• The revised approach in the Programme titled “Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC)” emphasizes more on Information, Educational and Communication (IEC), Human Resource Development, Capacity Development activities and generation of demand for sanitary facilities.

Objectives:

 The main focus of the Campaign is to motivate people to adopt good hygienic practices and to develop an open defecation free environment forever.

• Bring about an improvement in the general quality of life in rural areas by accelerating sanitation coverage in rural areas.
• Generate felt demand for sanitation facilities through awareness creation and health education and encourage cost effective and appropriate technologies in sanitation
• Cover schools/Anganwadis in rural areas with sanitation facilities and promote hygiene education and sanitary habits among students
• Encourage Eliminate open defecation to minimize risk of contamination of drinking water sources and food
• Convert dry latrines to pour flush latrines, and eliminate manual scavenging practice wherever in existence in rural areas.

Strategy:

This programme involves change of mindset and targets at inculcating willingness among rural communities to construct and usage of latrines. A lot of IEC and interpersonal communication efforts are required for motivating people to adopt hygienic practices. The progress will not only be shown by the increasing number of latrines constructed but also by the continuous usage and increasing number of villages having adopted open defecation free status. To achieve this, extensive IEC campaign is required.

Beneficiaries: Rural Communities

Activities:

The following activities were organized:

• Community mapping, formation of cluster groups, base line survey of BPL families and list preparation, school rally, Essay competition, Clean up campaign
• Each household motivated to construct household sanitary latrine.
• Various sanitary options such as twin pit and single pit latrines demonstrated to the community
• School sanitary latrines and baby friendly latrines constructed in Anganwadi Centers.
• The main stakeholders such as women and children informed about the importance of safe sanitary practices through PRA tools and group meetings.
• Training sessions held on different topics related health & sanitation.
• Wall painting, wall writing and display boards on main location in the GPs

After construction of 50% toilets in five Gram Panchayats Bhanga Deoria, Pratappur, Gangapur, Rameshwarpur, villages were handover to the concern DPMU.

 Impact:

• Most of the families get aware about the health and hygiene component of Total Sanitation Campaign.
• 50% of household constructed household latrines and using.

 Monitoring:

The program was supervised & monitored by the district project management unit. The internal monitoring of the project work was done by the staff meetings, monthly progress report and record keeping etc.

Geographical area Covered:

 IMPART served in 14 Gram Panchayats in Rudrapur and 7 Gram Panchayats in Sitarganj out of which one Gram Panchayat Chutki Dewaria received Nirmal Gram Puraskar from the government of India.