CITY SANITATION PLAN - Ministry of Urban Development

6.2 VISION AND SPECIFIC GOALS
Bareilly City to become totally sanitized, livable and sustain good public health and environmental
outcomes for all the citizens with a special focus on hygienic and affordable sanitation facilities for
the urban poor by 2015.
SPECIFIC GOALS
a) Awareness generation and behaviour change
b) Making Bareilly a open defecation free city
c) Re-Orienting Institutions and Mainstreaming Sanitation
d) Sanitary and Safe Disposal of human excreta and liquid wastes
e) Proper Operation & Maintenance of all Sanitary Installations
The city’s concerted efforts would be in achieving the vision and the goals in a stipulated timeframe.
6.3 SANITATION OPTIONS
6.3.1 TECHNOLOGICAL OPTIONS
Application of technology is one of a number of integrated measures required to improve sanitary
conditions. Although sanitation is often understood as dealing with urine and excreta, the definition
of sanitation is much broader and concerns the conditions relating to public health. To improve
sanitation, the entire environment needs to be looked at in a holistic manner so that improvements
in one area are not undermined by the neglect of another, and to prevent the problem being
transported elsewhere with the discharge of untreated sewage or indiscriminate tipping of solid
waste.
The infrastructure necessary to provide a sanitation facility which is safe, reliable, private, protected
from the weather and ventilated, keeps smells to the minimum, easy to keep clean, minimises the risk
of the spread of sanitation-related diseases by facilitating the appropriate control of disease carrying
flies and pests, and enables safe and appropriate treatment and/or removal of human waste and
wastewater in an environmentally sound manner. Technology does not fail humans; humans fail