Surkhet: A campaign is going to be started here in Surkhet to make it mandatory for a candidate contesting the local elections to have a toilet in his/her house. This campaign is a part of the five-year sanitation action plan prepared by the Regional Monitoring and Supervision Office to make Surkhet an open defecation free district by 2015.

Stakeholders and political parties have expressed commitments to implement the action plan. According to the action plan, the political parties have to give high priority to sanitation, include sanitation in their manifesto and mobilize their youth wings to work in sanitation sector.

Source: Kantipur, January 28, 2010