Rural Nagaland declared open defecation Free

KOHIMA

: On the day of Gandhi Jayanti, rural

Nagaland

was declared

Open Defecation Free

(ODF) on Tuesday. The formal declaration was made by Public Health Engineering (PHE) Minister Jacob Zhimomi during a function on the Swachhata Diwas. The minister said the ODF declaration is for all the 1,122 villages of the state and does not cover urban areas.

He asserted that the PHED would cooperate with the Urban Development Department towards achieving ODF in the urban areas.