<span style="color: #222222;">The Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir has achieved another milestone of declaring 6,000 villages as ODF Plus in the aspiring category under the "Swachh Bharat Mission Grameen. AIR Jammu Correspondent reports that these villages are sustaining the ODF Plus status and have systems in place for managing Solid or Liquid waste. The villages have progressed beyond constructing and using toilets to attain cleanliness and adequate sanitation in their villages, hence moving from ODF to ODF Plus.<br />''<br />'' In its efforts to ensure that all the villages have minimal litter and an adequate system in place to manage waste, the Directorate of Rural Sanitation, department of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj has taken many initiatives that includes initiation of the process of door to door collection in many panchayats where waste is being collected from Households for its scientific disposal. In some areas people have even started paying users charges for the waste collection services being provided to them. The department has also put in place assets at Households and Community level for processing Solid and Liquid wastes. As of now the department has created 59,407 Individual compost pits, 3,09,558 individual soak pits, 7138 Community Compost Pits and 20,958 Community Soak Pits. As many as 75 villages have been declared as ODF Plus Model villages. A number of segregation sheds have also been constructed and Baling Machines, Shredders have been installed in some of these segregation sheds for scientific processing of the waste. The Department of Rural Sanitation is planning and making continuous efforts to make all villages as ODF Plus in Model Category along with ensuring sustainability of assets already created with active involvement of PRIs, general public, youth etc.</span><br />