India has more mobile phones than toilets: UN report

[Ali.009]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/7593567/India-has-more-mobile-phones-than-toilets-UN-report.html

India's mobile subscribers totalled 563.73 million at the last count, enough to serve nearly half of the country's 1.2 billion population.

But just 366 million people - around a third of the population - had access to proper sanitation in 2008, said the study published by the United Nations University, a UN think-tank.

"It is a tragic irony to think in India, a country now wealthy enough that roughly half of the people own phones," so many people "cannot afford the basic necessity and dignity of a toilet," said Zafar Adeel, the UN University director.

Mr Adeel heads the UN University's Institute for Water, Environment and Health, based in the Canadian city of Hamilton, which prepared the report.

Worldwide, an estimated $358 billion (£230 billion) is needed between now and 2015 to achieve the UN Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of halving the proportion of people with inadequate sanitation from 2000 levels.

Proper sanitation "could do more to save lives, especially those of young people, improve health and help pull India and other countries in similar circumstances out of poverty than any alternative investment," Mr Adeel said.

Poor sanitation is a major contributor to water-borne diseases, which in the past three years alone killed an estimated 4.5 million children under the age of five worldwide, according to the study.

The report gave a rough cost of $300 to build a toilet, including labour, materials and advice.

The world could expect a return of up to $34 for every dollar spent on sanitation through improved productivity and reduced poverty and health costs, said Adeel.

He said improving sanitation was "an economic and humanitarian opportunity of historic proportions."

 

[duhastmish]

great now everyman can take a dump on their phone,

loool these stats are so funny some times, wtf a mobile has to do with toilets ?


NO DEAL !!!!

 

[riju78]

have u been sleeping for the last couple of weeks???? this very same topic had been posted a number of times and discussed to the core....
it is official india has more mobiles than toilets...savvy?

 

[Cityboy]

Yup, we r using mobile phones functn like gps to find out toilets.

 

[DESERT FIGHTER]

Yup, we r using mobile phones functn like gps to find out toilets.

 

[grey boy 2]

NGOs can produce statistics indicating that more households in India have cell phones and television than access to toilets. But for rural people to want to put in toilets, they have to be informed.

From India comes a classic tale of how the World Bank financed toilets in a rural area, only to find them being used as storage sheds, or accommodations. That’s because people didn’t want them. So, now the strategy is to try to create demand first—a demand that may or may not be related to promises of improved health. In one portion of India’s Harayana state, which Adam, Lisa and I visited, they’ve had some success by switching the argument in favor of toilets from talking about how flies on feces lying in fields fly back to your village and dance on the food you eat, to talking about status. Toilets have become a status item via a campaign called “No Toilet, No Bride.” By convincing young women—and their parents, who must give consent in this land of arranged marriages—that men without toilets do not have high enough status to be bridegrooms, a mini-surge in demand for toilets has been kicked off.

It’s tough to put a number on the increase in toilets built in the region, but relief agencies are encouraged by the trend, and in a village that we visited, it was easy for Adam to interview you women who said things like, “I can live without a husband, but not without a toilet.” A young man showed us a toilet he was constructing, and acknowledged that he would need it when he sought a bride.

"Incredible India" I doubt you able to find toilet with GPS, since

people didn't want it.
India: The Open Defecation Paradox - Pulitzer Center Untold Stories

 

[Forrest Griffin]

What do you indians do when you need to poop?

 

[DesiGuy]

What do you indians do when you need to poop?

Maybe go to Pakistan.

kidding.

 

[DesiGuy]

NGOs can produce statistics indicating that more households in India have cell phones and television than access to toilets. But for rural people to want to put in toilets, they have to be informed.

From India comes a classic tale of how the World Bank financed toilets in a rural area, only to find them being used as storage sheds, or accommodations. That’s because people didn’t want them. So, now the strategy is to try to create demand first—a demand that may or may not be related to promises of improved health. In one portion of India’s Harayana state, which Adam, Lisa and I visited, they’ve had some success by switching the argument in favor of toilets from talking about how flies on feces lying in fields fly back to your village and dance on the food you eat, to talking about status. Toilets have become a status item via a campaign called “No Toilet, No Bride.” By convincing young women—and their parents, who must give consent in this land of arranged marriages—that men without toilets do not have high enough status to be bridegrooms, a mini-surge in demand for toilets has been kicked off.

It’s tough to put a number on the increase in toilets built in the region, but relief agencies are encouraged by the trend, and in a village that we visited, it was easy for Adam to interview you women who said things like, “I can live without a husband, but not without a toilet.” A young man showed us a toilet he was constructing, and acknowledged that he would need it when he sought a bride.

"Incredible India" I doubt you able to find toilet with GPS, since

people didn't want it.
India: The Open Defecation Paradox - Pulitzer Center Untold Stories

So you came back!!!!!!!!!!


Welcome to


Why not introduce in "introduction", because i think many people don't remember you well.

 

[grey boy 2]

So you came back!!!!!!!!!!


Welcome to


Why not introduce in "introduction", because i think many people don't remember you well.

Hey, pal, how are you, thanks for your sweet post, as long i got a

old friend like you missing me so much, who else i need !

Btw, when did you got back ? i thought you were still.....

Anyway, back to the topic, do you own a "cell phone" ?

Take care pal, will catch you later.

 

[DesiGuy]

Hey, pal, how are you, thanks for your sweet post, as long i got a

old friend like you missing me so much, who else i need !

Btw, when did you got back ? i thought you were still.....

Anyway, back to the topic, do you own a "cell phone" ?

Take care pal, will catch you later.

haha, I will not let you forget me at any cost.


you are talking about me.
Dude you were banned for a lot of time, and believe me i was very dispointed. So i got myself banned too, since you weren't here.


Anyways back to the topic.

yes I do own cell phone.
Do you? with Sim card in it?

 

[grey boy 2]

haha, I will not let you forget me at any cost.


you are talking about me.
Dude you were banned for a lot of time, and believe me i was very dispointed. So i got myself banned too, since you weren't here.


Anyways back to the topic.

yes I do own cell phone.
Do you? with Sim card in it?

HaHa, pal, you are so sweet, but i think we better cut this off right

now, people might got the wrong messege about us.

And regarding your question, i do own a "Cell phone", yes, with sim

card, but most important of all, a built in "GPS"

 

[DesiGuy]

HaHa, pal, you are so sweet, but i think we better cut this off right

now, people might got the wrong messege about us.

And regarding your question, i do own a "Cell phone", yes, with sim

card, but most important of all, a built in "GPS"

You are Right!


Good to hear you have cell phone.

I knew from the beginning that you are modern!

 

[chinapakistan]

So, just a question. Which one is more important for living, toilet or cellphone?

 

[grey boy 2]

So, just a question. Which one is more important for living, toilet or cellphone?

Well, bro, thats a tough question, depending on your "mentality"

Some preferr practical, "Toilets" no brainer.

Some preferr "Cell phone" a sign of backwardation relief.

My take, a "Cell phone" with "GPS" function, hopefully with a lot of

luck, be able to locate a "Toilet" in India.