Shimla: Jai Ram Thakur, rural development minister in response to a question by Vipin Parmar (BJP) said that the government was making efforts to achieve total sanitation by end of 2010, ahead of the target of March 2012 set for the state.
Till July, 2009, 9 blocks had been declared to have achieved complete sanitation. The blocks declared sanitation free were, Ghurwain, Pacchad, Hamirpur, Sujjanpur, Sulah, Solan, Kandaghat, Narkanda and Basantpur, the minister said.
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