Modi’s Swachh Bharat to achieve a milestone this Independence Day

As reported by Economic Times,
With public sector firms like Coal India and
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Bharti Group has made 4,000 toilets so far and out of them not all are under the government's sanitation program meant for schools.
Japanese automaker Toyota has scaled up its toilet building plan and has constructed over 268 of the 500 toilets till now with modern water conservation technology. With Hindustan Zinc, simultaneously, reaching the 450 mark, CII, out of 4,000 has built 3,900 units.
With companies stirred up for such projects, they are even coming up with innovative ideas like e-toilets, chemical toilets and also double pit ones. Also, they’ve explained that the cost of construction is also not so high. For instance, Mahindra is building a toilet block with five units at Rs 2.3 lakh each, while Toyota — which has the toilets designed specially by its team — is spending around Rs 2 lakh per toilet.
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For several companies, the India Inc has a few complaints too. For one, information flow is poor and the scheme got off to a slow start, it says. The biggest challenge was selecting the location as companies wanted to build the units near their area of operation. The other worry was related to maintenance as companies did not want the money to sink.
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