A State-level convention on total sanitation campaign will be held on April 29 at 10 am at the Karmabir Nabin Chandra Bordoloi AC Indoor Stadium at Sarusajai for official launching of the International Year of Sanitation, 2008, a press release said. Besides the Chief Minister, ministers of line departments will also address the convention.

Over 40 thousand Village Water and Sanitation Committees have been constituted in the state under Total Sanitation Campaign. Importantly, all the members of the committees are women.

Arsenic and flourides are found in the underground water in Barak valley. In order to make underground water free from arsenic and flourides all necessary preventive measure have been adopted by the State government. The PHE Minister Rihon Daimary disclosed the fact while inaugurating Kumbhirgram TE water supply scheme.

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A total of 509 toilets have been constructed in schools against the district administration's target of 532. Moreover, toilets have been constructed in all the anganvadis in the district