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Government urges Banks to pitch in for Swachhta Mission.

Government urges Banks to pitch in for Swachhta Mission.
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The government yesterday asked the Banks and Micro-Finance institutions to come forward in a big way for credit-disbursal to achieve the goal of Swachh Bharat Mission of making India Open Defecation Free by 2019. Addressing a Conference on Innovative Financing for Clean India here, the Union Minister of Rural Development and Drinking Water and Sanitation said that there is incentive of Rs 12,000 for toilet construction for BPL families, but to achieve the universal coverage, there is need for easy financing by banks and other financial institutions. He said that Finance Ministry has included water and sanitation as new sectors for priority sector lending by commercial banks, but this monumental policy change must translate from intent to action.

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