Secretary of the remote VDC Matrika Prasad Bhatta said the decision was taken as other measures to convince village folks into building toilets failed.[break]
An all party meeting took the decision with an aim of declaring Rupal open-defecation-free VDC within a year. Of the 938 households in the VDC, 735 are without toilets. “We will recommend for citizenship only after confirming that the person seeking it has a toilet in his house,” Bhatta added.
Neighboring VDCs have also been running their own toilet construction campaigns but none have gone this far.
The VDC will update the records of all households every month and those not having a toilet of their own will not be issued recommendations for citizenship, school admission, scholarship and other works. A monitoring committee has already been formed at the VDC level and sub-committees in the wards to update the records.
Secretary Bhatta said the decision has already started to have its effect. VDC facilitator Laxmi Bista said the most impoverished of the villagers would even be given grants for toilet construction.
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