India’s dirty secret: Modi goes where Gandhi failed

[nair]

How do you expect people to keep streets clean if there is not garbage collection and disposal system available or if available non collects on time?

I'll sue them once I get back to to India! It's my Childhood dream!

That is what i meant with cleanliness by authorities, Clean the entire garbage, provide a dustbin, and put a strict law - most of the guys will follow, born morons will learn in hard way....

 

[HariPrasad]

okay, keep denial yourself, you always talk about Pakistan, the topic is India serious problems.
Loo and behold, India’s dirty secret is out in the open

United Nations Report

NEW DELHI, May 10, 2014
Updated: May 10, 2014 02:17 IST

The country has the largest number of people defecating in the open
With as many as 597 million people practising open defecation, India still has the largest number of people defecating in open in the world, according to a new UN report.

The report — Progress on Drinking Water and Sanitation (2014 update) — released on Friday says 82 per cent of the one billion people practising open defection in the world live in just 10 countries.

Worse, despite having some of the highest numbers of open defecators, India does not feature among the countries making great strides in reducing open defecation, the report jointly prepared by the WHO and the UNICEF says.

In contrast, India’s immediate neighbour Bangladesh and Vietnam, are among the top 10 countries that have achieved the highest reduction in open defecation since 1990. Vietnam, Bangladesh and Peru have reduced open defecation prevalence to single digits, according to the report.

According to the UN, countries where open defecation is most widely practised have the highest number of deaths of children under the age of five, as well as high levels of under-nutrition, high levels of poverty and large disparities between the rich and poor.

There are also strong gender impacts: lack of safe, private toilets makes women and girls vulnerable to violence and is an impediment to girls’ education, it says.

Since 1990, almost two billion people globally have gained access to improved sanitation, and 2.3 billion have gained access to drinking water from improved sources. Some 1.6 billion of these people have piped water connections in their homes or compounds.

More than half of the global population lives in cities, and urban areas are still better supplied with improved water and sanitation than rural ones. But, the gap is decreasing. In 1990, more than 76 per cent people living in urban areas had access to improved sanitation as opposed to only 28 per cent in rural ones. By 2012, 80 per cent urban dwellers and 47 per cent rural ones had access to better sanitation.

In 1990, 95 per cent people in urban areas could drink improved water, compared with 62 per cent people in rural ones. By 2012, 96 per cent people living in towns and 82 per cent of those in rural areas had access to improved water.

Poor sanitation and contaminated water are linked to transmission of diseases such as cholera, diarrhoea, dysentery, hepatitis A, and typhoid. In addition, inadequate or absent water and sanitation services in health care facilities put already vulnerable patients at additional risk of infection and disease.

The report presents estimates for 1990-2012 and is based on data from nationally representative household surveys and censuses for the same period.

It reveals that by 2012, 116 countries had met the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target for drinking water, 77 had met the MDG target for sanitation and 56 countries had met both targets. MDG 7.C aims to halve, by 2015, the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation.

Loo and behold, India’s dirty secret is out in the open - The Hindu

Do not worry. We have decided to clean everything from open defection to open food to open garbage. You can enjoy the dirt as shown in post no 5 and write on PDF on dirty india. That will give you some consolation.

 

[Nova2]

As far as cleaning of bathrooms by lower caste's are concerned,i would say its quite rare. In the urban are pople of course clean their washrooms themselves. But even in the rural are its the same,i havent seen in my home town(rural village) any such cases.infact people out there feel awkward askin' anyone else to clean their washroom. They would prefer askin' someone from their family to do the job then even asking their maid to do so. Reporter is reading too much into caste stuff.

I remember 4 or 5 years back, Railway station was filled with garbage, and people throwing garbage in the platform or in the track, but today when you see the Station is clean and you hardly can see anything on the track, and if some one even think of throwing onto track, he will retract looking at the cleanliness.....

That's the bitter truth,people react when they see others in the move. Mostly in southern India stations are cleaner than in the north,mostly cos of the population and illitaracy % among the population,people who come from north refrain from throwing anything on the platform and instead serach for a dustbin,same applies to other public places aswell which are clean they may not throw anything over there either. Public behaviour would change preety quickly only if the authorities will be on the move.

 

[Guynextdoor2]

I would say 50:50 - Authorities should act on the cleanliness and stricter laws, Citizen to follow the laws.....

Point I'm making is this. In large cities dirt/ daily management contracts are given to large utilities companies.

What was Gandhi words?
Good people will see Good side of nation?

He called her book a report of a sewer inspector. It's not criticism that's a problem, it is a polemic.

 

[DrSomnath999]

I think the author who had written this article has written it in a good sense of mind .He indirectly praises Modi as he beleives he can change the scenario in india.

But stupidly the OP tries to take cheap shots by posting this thread for as usual India bashing syndrome ,meanwhile once should never forget this famous dialogue from Raj kumar

"Johny jin ke ghar sisse ke bane hotey hain woho dusre ke ghar pathar nahe martein "

meaning in english those "whose own house are made of glass should not throw stones at other house"

better check your own sanitation & cleanliness in pakistan Mr OP

CHEERS

 

[sherin616]

Lack of access to toilets causes girls between 12 and 18 to miss around five days of school every month during their periods





At least we don't shoot them for just trying to study

 

[Abingdonboy]

There is an issues with sanitation in India???

I'm sorry but Pakistan faces an identical situation as India the difference being India is now tackling this issue AND has the economic might to do so- Pakistan neither has the means nor any sort of directive from the very top (they are all too bust squabbling about who is the PM).

 

[gau8av]

wonder why my post was deleted

 

[trident2010]

The cleanliness in India is appalling and everyone has equal share in that. I hope apart from cleaning the cities, govt. educate and enforce "Watch your Waste" scheme.

 

[VelocuR]

Let's compare based on studies above from World Health Organizations.

India 597 vs Pakistan 41

India 597 vs China 10

India 597 vs Rest of the World 182

Worst than whole Africa countries overall.

 

[Yogijaat]

Let's compare based on studies above from World Health Organizations.

India 597 vs Pakistan 41

India 597 vs China 10

India 597 vs Rest of the World 182
Worst than whole Africa countries overall.

Oh yeah! Orangi town is heaven on earth.