Belagavi: Belagavi district, which won the State award for implementing the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, has set another record by constructing 115 toilets in just 24 hours under the Swachh Bharat Mission.

This rare fear was achieve as the Zilla Panchayat was determined to declare the district as open defecation-free district focusing on individual villages under the ‘Swachha Habba’ programme.

The feat was achieved at Gajapati village in Badas Gram Panchayat in Belagavi taluk.

As part of their plan, 140 workers working round the clock from 6 am on Saturday till 6 am on Sunday, managed to construct 115 toilets, even as the target was to build 101 toilets.

Earlier the same Badas GP had set a record by constructing 133 toilets in one week under ‘Vara Ondu Souchalaya Nooru’ (One Week, Hundred Toilets) programme. It has now rewritten its own record.

While Gajapati village is now among villages where every house has a toilet, Badas has 301 toilets for 640 households and the rest of the toilets would be built by March-end, say ZP sources.