Jaipur, November 4. Chief Minister Smt. Vasundhara Raje has said that the state government is committed to make entire Rajasthan Open Defecation Free (ODF) by the year 2017. The state government has planned to make 2,500 village panchayats ODF every year for the next three years. Presently, 300 panchayats have been declared ODF and another 300 panchayats would be announced so very soon. Smt. Raje was addressing a function on the occasion of unveiling the statue of Shri Bhawani Singh at village Madhogarh near Bassi in Jaipur on Tuesday. Talking about the Swachh Bharat campaign initiated by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, the CM said that people should keep themselves and their homes, streets, villages and cities clean. She declared to give Rs 50 lakh for Madhogarh panchayat towards sanitation works under the Swachh Bharat campaign. On Sarkar Aapke Dwar, the ambitious Government at Doorstep campaign, the CM said that aim of launching this initiative was to make the administration alert upto the lowest level. “We attempted for attention, alertness and awareness from bottom to the top in administration so that the public in the villages was not strained to visit Jaipur to get their works done. Small works are expected to complete at the local level itself,” she said. Smt. Raje said that the rural women would no more have to step out in dingy streets because Gaurav Paths would be developed in their villages. Tender processes were underway for this and the works would actual get start next month, she said. Prior to this, Smt. Raje was welcomed by the dignitaries of different community by garlanding and presenting her odhanis and a sword. Member of Parliament Shri Harish Meena, MLA Shri Shankar Lal Sharma, former MLA Shri Kanhaiya Lal Meena, sarpanch of Madhogarh village Shri Shivpratap Singh, other officials and dignitaries were present on this occasion.

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