K Dharma Reddy,the district collector Medak ,recently took up the charge of cleaning a toilet pit. According to the reports, he went down into a toilet pit and emptied it with his bare hands.The district collector participated in a workshop on Sustainability of ODF conducted by the Swachh Bharat Mission in Pune focussed on turning night soil into organic manure.
While the staff first demonstrated the process and then the collector himself went inside the pit to empty it of the organic dung.In 2017, Medak was the 8th district in Telangana to be declared Open Defecation Free (ODF).