encouraged to prepare State Sanitation Strategies taking into account their historic legacy with reference to sanitation, climate and physiographic factors, economic, social and political parameters and institutional variables, etc.
It has been suggested therein that the State Government should monitor the performance of cities using instruments such as citizens report cards, citizens monitoring committees, self-assessment systems, inter-city computations etc.
He further informed that at present, 9 States have formulated their State Sanitation Strategies viz. Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Orissa and Chattisgarh. No financial support has been given to states including Haryana for formulation of State Sanitation Strategies.