Communication and Capacity Development Unit (Sanitation)

Department of Rural Development
Government of Himachal Pradesh

Initiate in District Sirmaur in 2000 and at present
all 12 Districts are covered under the Campaign.
Total Sanitation Campaign advocates shift to
greater household involvement and demand
responsiveness. Total Sanitation Campaign
(TSC) emphasized more on Information,
Education and Communication (IEC), Human
Resource Development and Capacity
Development activities to increase awareness
among the rural people and generation of
demand for sanitary facilities.
State has set for it self the target of Nirmal
Himachal 2010 wherein it proposes to declare
Himachal Open Defecation free.

Since the coverage of IHHL is the largest
component of the TSC in Himachal the IHHL
coverage has increased from meager 28% in
2001 to more than 92% in 2010.
For the last two years Department has taken up
TSC in the Campaign mode and at present the
number of ODF GPs have increased from 460
in Jan 2008 to more than 2754 in May 2010.
The number of Nirmal Gram Puraskar
Awardees in the State have also increased from
22 in 2007 to 245 in 2008 and 253 in 2009. in
2010 a total of 1268 GPs including 10 Block
Panchayats have applied for the NGP.
In achieving these enormous objectives the
Department of RD has focused on extensive
IEC, however till date the Districts have
received only 36% of the project cost from the
GOI.
Presently Himachal is the leading State in the
field of Sanitation and has been so
acknowledged by the GOI too.

TSC projects provide that IEC Costs including Start up activities
would be limited to 15% of the project cost.
2007 guidelines provide that TSC being a District specific project, IEC
funds shall be sanctioned to the Districts only.
For the IEC activities at the State level no separate funds have been
provided.
However to undertake the HRD and IEC activities at the State level
the old CCDU guidelines provided for separate CCDUs for Sanitation
and Water where these two components were dealt with by different
Departments.
In pursuance to these guidelines State of Himachal was sanctioned a
separate CCDU ( Sanitation ) by the DDWS in the march 2009 with
some initial grant.
However the GOI in April 2009 again modified their guidelines with
respect to the availability of funds for the CCDU activities and now as
per the new NRDWP guidelines the funding for both CCDUs would be
made out of 2% (now increased to 5%) support fund available to the

In Himachal the main focus of the TSC is on Human development through
extensive IEC and HRD activities and for this following activities were
undertake in the year 2009:
HRD activities;
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TOT under TSC, SLWM, Technological Options.
Online reporting.
Preparation of AIP.
Holding of BDO’s workshop on TSC.
Support to the DRDAs which were short on funds receipts from
GOI for trainings.
Trainings of School and Anganwari staff and,
Masons trainings for the all District and Block level officials.
Preparation and distribution of Literature on TSC;
1. Sampooran Sawachta Abhiyan Ek Parichya (Hindi).
2. Sampooran Swachta Kyon or Kaise (Hindi)
3. Shouchalaya ke vikalp (Hindi)
4. Technical Note on Solid and Liquid Waste Management (English)
5. Technology Options for Toilet Construction (English)
6. Adhyapakon Aivam Chhatron Ke Liye Maarg-Darshika (Hindi)
7. Grameen Kshetron Mein Swachhta Hetu Takniki Margdarshika (Hindi)
8. School Swachta Reward Scheme (Hindi).

IEC Activities;
Organized Swachta Week in the First week
of April2009 by involving all the line
Departments and Stakeholders.
Verification/ selection of GPs under MVSSP
for 2009 and distribution of award.
Verification / nomination of NGP Panchayats.
Preparation of School Sanitation Reward
Scheme with allocation of funds for its
verification/ trainings.
Support to the DRDAs.
Extensive IEC through the use of Mass
media such as Doordarshan, AIR, Print
material and interpersonal contacts.
Use of Folk Media Joint Campaign (Kala
Jathas) to spread the message of Sanitation
in all the GPs of the State.

HRD Activities;
Extensive trainings of
Education and ICDS staff and
other line Departments for the
achievement of School and
Anganwari sanitation.
Trainings on the community
toilets concept and their use.
Organization of State level
workshop on SLWM for
Strategy formulation and its
rollout.
Holding of similar workshops
and trainings at District level
and in few cases upto Block
level.
Trainings to technical staff
including Masons.
Orientation programme for the
PRI representatives with
special focus on
Sustainability.

IEC Activities;
• Organization Swachta Week in
the First week of April2010.
• Verification/ selection of GPs
under MVSSP for 2010 and
distribution of award.
• Support to the proposed NGP
verification process.
• Organization of School
Sanitation Reward scheme,
MMPY for the current year.
• Joint IEC under TSC and
MNREGS.
• Extensive IEC through the use of
Mass media such as
Doordarshan, AIR, Print material
and interpersonal contacts.
• Publication and printing of training
/ IEC material on TSC.
• Development and distribution of
Documentaries containing
success stories under TSC.

Under CCDU the Department intends to
keep following manpower as provided by
the latest CCDU guidelines;
Assistant Director ( TSC)
Superintendent
Sr. Assistant
Consultants
Data Entry Operator
On Deputation
On Deputation
On Deputation
Four
One
The expected expenditure on the aforesaid
would be approximately 9.00 Lacs only

Sr. No Head Amount Required
1 IEC 75,00,000
2 HRD 46,24,000
3 Administration &Estb.
Cost
21,79,600
4 Salary of Staff 09,00,000
Total 1,52,03,600