Encourage use of toilets: Collector

Vijayawada: Krishna District Collector B Lakshmikantham has said every individual should avoid open defecation and use individual toilets to build a healthy society. The Collector was addressing the NCC unit at the SRR and CVR Government College here on Friday.

He participated in an awareness programme on the use of individual toilets. He said that everyone should feel the responsibility to create awareness on the use of individual toilets with a slogan ‘Be healthy and build a healthy society.’ Public awareness on use of toilets was the need of the hour. He added that cholera, typhoid and other diseases would be caused by open defecation. 

He informed that the state and the central governments were providing financial help for construction of toilets. By having a toilet at home the family, society and the country would become healthy, he added.