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Lt Governor Kiran Bedi and Minister for Public Works A.Namassivayam honouring managers of a public toilet at a meeting to declare Puducherry Open Defecation Free on Tuesday. | Photo Credit: T_Singaraveloumore-inThe government on Tuesday declared Puducherry as Open Defecation Free at a function coinciding with the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. The Central Government had given ?12,000 per toilet for rural areas and ?4,000 for urban areas. “Its a historic day for Puducherry,” the Lieutenant Governor said on declaring Puducherry ODF. In a presentation, Project Officer P.
T Rudra Goud, said the initial estimate was to construct 9,626 toilets in urban areas and 45,403 toilets in rural areas..