The SGSY is being recast. The new name given is National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM). Mission model is the newer approach as it the trend or practice with several of our flagship programmes. The aim, as the NRLM draft claims, is to overcome the limitations of SGSY by restructuring it to speed up the process of poverty reduction.

This article examines and discusses the knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) related to sanitation in Unsar Pranti in Muzaffarpur district, in Bihar. The findings are based on fieldwork done during October-November 2008. An NGO called ADTHI PLAN has been working on a sanitation project in the village for the past ten years.