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Corporate Houses & CSR: Indian Govt wants 100% toilet access at schools by June

The Government of India is taking the act of directing at 100 percent accessibility of toilets at schools by this month as a component of its aspiring Swachh Bharat campaign, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Tuesday.

“Our beginning target is that all schools, especially where the child girl goes, by June, that is this month, we ought to have a 100 percent rate of toilets,” he said.

While addressing the Swachh Bharat programme adopted by Jubilant foodWorks,  Jaitley said, “It has been incorporated as a part of the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) program. A considerable measure of incentives in our financial policy have additionally been declared.”

“The per capita expenditure on diseases caused by dirt and environment which is not clean is enormous. Its results on human wellbeing, on quality of life are colossal,” he included.

Calling upon Jubilant FoodWorks to embrace the Clean India mission, Jaitley expressed his hope that other corporate houses follow with the same pattern by taking as part of CSR and take the campaign forward in a major manner.