Nagaland produces India's first bamboo toilet Wednesday July 15,2015

 

 Nagaland Governor P.B. Acharya formally inaugurated India`s first bamboo toilets in Dimapur on Wednesday July 15,2015

 

The inauguration took place at the Nagaland Bamboo Resource Centre in Dimapur as part of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (Clean India Mission).

The two prototype bamboo toilets inaugurated by Acharya are an outcome of a five-day training on "bamboo toilets for private use and for the community" jointly organised by Nagaland Bamboo Development Agency (NBDA) and South Asia Bamboo Foundation (SABF) in partnership with Building Material Technology Promotion Council (BMTPC), Ministry of Urban Development & Poverty Alleviation, held from May 12-16,2015

Speaking on the occasion, Acharya congratulated the Nagaland Bamboo Development Agency (NBDA) for the construction of an eco-friendly and inexpensive toilet that could supplement the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan initiated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on October 2, 2014.