When The Hindu asked Hassan Deputy Commissioner Rohini Sindhuri about the presence of insanitary toilets, she said Tyagi Nagar had been handed over to the Jain Mutt. The local body, Shravanabelagola Gram Panchayat, has no role in maintaining the temporary townships. The Corporation looks after construction and maintenance of the townships for four months. It hired a private firm to execute the work through a tender process. The task of implementing temporary townships for the event is handled by the Karnataka Road Development Corporation, a Government of Karnataka enterprise. The administration has banned the use of plastic in the townships to maintain cleanliness, but open defecation is still witnessed.
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The State government declared Hassan an open defecation free district on October 2, 2017. We sweep the streets, clean toilets and remove the filth in the township,” he said. We have now come here to handle cleaning work. Our team went to Ahmedabad, Haridwar and other places, wherever big events are held. “We have worked wherever such mega events are held. He told The Hindu that such cleaning jobs were their very means of livelihood. Santosh Kumar, who is from the Valmiki community, heads a team of 24 workers in Tyagi Nagar.
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The district administration has designated a coconut farm close to the township for open defecation, officials said.Īround 300 workers, a majority of them Dalits from Chitrakoot in Uttar Pradesh, are in Shravanabelagola to undertake cleaning jobs in the townships. Among them, a few use the insanitary latrines, while some others prefer open defecation. So far around 50 such religious leaders have come to the township. It defines an “insanitary latrine” as one that requires human excreta to be cleaned or otherwise handled manually, either in situ, or in an open drain or pit into which the excreta is discharged or flushed out. The law on manual scavenging prohibits employment of workers to clean insanitary latrines. For disposal, the excreta is covered with sand, and flushed out into an open drain with water.”
Officers making the preparations for the Mahamastakabhishekha, where the Gomateshwara statue is anointed, said the structures were designed to suit the special requirement of some religious figures who are coming for the mega event.Ī government official said, “They do not use toilets with basin sets. The insanitary latrines have been constructed at Tyagi Nagar for religious leaders and require manual cleaning, which the law prohibits.