SHG group wins Sanitation Award

By Express News Service

CUTTACK:  A city-based transgender SHG has lately bagged the national-level ISC-FICCI Sanitation Award-2021 for its commendable work in faecal sludge administration.  The group –  Bahuchara Mata Transgender SHG – has 10 members has been working the Faecal Sludge Treatment Plant at Matagajpur which was constructed by Odisha Water Supply and Sewerage Board (OWSSB) final yr. 

In order to empower the marginal group, CMC determined to handover the ability to the SHG.  The civic physique additionally skilled them for 2 months in working it and turning the waste into compost, stated District Coordinator, Technical Supporting Unit(TSU), Faecal Sludge and Septage Management, Cuttack Asish Mohanty.  “Earlier, we used to beg for a living. The work assigned to us by the CMC has provided us a livelihood”, stated secretary of the SHG Sital Bastia. 

The CMC Commissioner felicitated the group members for the achievement. The plant was handed over to the SHG via a service contract between it and the CMC with `1,22,000 in direction of operation and upkeep value,” stated Commissioner Ananya Das including that the civic physique can also be planning to incorporate extra transgender SHGs in metropolis sanitation programme.