TN’s swachh bharat report card: Advantage of swachh Toilet model
In rural Tamil Nadu, along with promoting construction of twin pit toilets, people are being educated about the maintenance and socially useful benefits of this toilet model.
By : migrator
Update: 2018-10-01 23:14 GMT
Chennai
- Twin pit toilets are scalable, implementable and cost-effective; and therefore can have a great impact in making rural India open defecation free (ODF). Further at a cost of Rs. 12,000, they are easy to use and make.
- They comprise two pits, each measuring 3.5 feet deep and one metre in diameter; the distance between them being one metre. When twin pit toilets are used, faecal matter will be allowed to pass and settle in one pit only.
1 After a one year rest period, the content of the first pit will be converted into manure and can be removed and used for plants.
2 The pits should be constructed only when the distance between the toilets and sewerage system is more than 30 metres.
3 Dimensions of pits- Diametre varies from .90 metres to 1.3 metres and the depth varies from 1 to 1.4 metres.
The Swachh toilet model is a modest, cost-effective design, where the twin pit system allows faecal matter to be converted to manure after a significant period of time.
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