Imperative to have tailor-made solutions targeting local villages: Jal Shakti official theprint

New Delhi, Jul 29 (PTI) It is imperative to have tailor-made solutions targeting the local villages and districts as the ‘one-size-fits-all’ strategy will not work for sanitation-related issues, a senior Jal Shakti Ministry official said on Friday.

 

Vini Mahajan, Secretary, Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation, Ministry of Jal Shakti, said the solutions must be unique and scalable and should be adopted by other villages which are in a similar situation.

 

“We need to understand that as India is a huge country, the issues are diverse. The solutions have to be tailored not only to the local geography and geology but also have to take into account the culture, practices and habits,”she said.

 

She stressed that the Lighthouse initiative will play an important role in this regard.

 

Addressing the launch of the ‘Lighthouse’ Workshop, organized by the FICCI-India Sanitation Coalition (ISC),  Mahajan noted that India is standing at the cusp of transformative change with a “huge opportunity for all of us to transform rural India”.