30,000 slum families enjoying sanitation facilities in Rajshahi

RAJSHAHI, Feb 1 (BSS): More than 30,000 poor and slum households are enjoying sanitation facilities by dint of commissioning of 11,000 hygienic latrines in the metropolis.
Similarly, they are getting facilities of safe drinking water from 2,300 tubewells installed in the slum areas besides different other settlement improvement privileges like footpath and drains.
Various other settlement improvement facilities like one community latrine, 42,412 squire-kilometer footpath, 6,708 meter drain, 34 dustbins and seven community centers were developed for ensuring improved water and sanitation among the poverty-prone communities.
The access to improved water sources makes the lives of community members healthier while the constructed toilets and bathing facilities leads to improved hygiene practices and the footpaths improves settlement accessibility and mobility.
Ajahar Ali, chief executive officer of Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC), said the infrastructural and settlement improvement activities were executed by the direct supervision and monitoring by 173 Community Development Committees under Urban Partnership for Poverty Reduction Project.