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Prime Minister Modi Acknowledges Lack of Toilets in India

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Out of topic but, What are your views on this @RiazHaq ??

That's bad news for India. It;s losing its best and brightest which are a small percentage of India's population.

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Source: Global Education Digest (UNESCO)

Haq's Musings: Human Capital Growth in Pakistan
 
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Jharkhand, [HASHTAG]#India[/HASHTAG]: Girl commits suicide after parents refuse toilet in home

Jharkhand: Girl commits suicide after parents refuse toilet in home via @htTweets

A class 12 student allegedly committed suicide on Friday in Jharkhand’s Dumka district after her parents turned down her repeated pleas to construct a toilet at home as they wanted to save money for the 17-year-old’s marriage, police said.

Khushbu Kumari, a resident of Dudhani colony in the town, was found hanging from the ceiling of her room by family members, the police added.

The tragedy underlined a growing awareness on hygiene among the younger generation in the state which has country’s highest rate of open defecation.

The 2011 census had said that 92.4% people in Jharkhand’s rural areas do not have toilets.

In recent times, there have been several instances of women refusing to marry into families who don’t have toilets in their homes, which officials attribute to growing public awareness about the health hazards of open defecation.

Dumka police, quoting Khushbu’s family-members, said that she was pressurising her parents for a toilet in her home as she was fed up and ashamed of defecating in open fields.

“Girl’s parents told her that they couldn’t afford a toilet as they were saving money for her marriage,” said investigating officer Manoj Mishra.

Her father Shripati Yadav is a driver.

“For us marriage was more important. She was demanding a toilet and on Friday we had a heated argument. She was stubborn and ended her life,” said a tearful Sanju Devi, Khushbu’s mother.

Police said that the girl ended her life when her parents were not at home.

“It is a tragic incident as girl’s parents were unaware of the importance of toilets,” said Dumka SP Bipul Shukla.

A government official said that under a government scheme, individuals are provided Rs 4,600 for household toilet construction.

“The parents seemed uninformed,” said a senior sanitation officer requesting anonymity.

A study by the Unicef earlier had identified poor sanitation as a major cause for diseases and deaths among children in the state and also showed how open defecation had a strong correlation with malnutrition (55%) and stunting (47%) among children of the state.
 
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Ministry of Urban Development07-July, 2015 17:25 IST
Swachh Bharat Mission picks up momentum in urban areas

Gujarat, MP, Karnataka, AP, Chattisgarh, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Telangana in the forefront

Delhi leads in construction of community and public toilet seats; Gujarat leads in construction of individual household toilets and Tamil Nadu in Solid Waste Management
Implementation of Swachh Bharat Mission in urban areas of the country has picked up momentum during the first three months of current financial year. Applications have been received from the States and Union Territories for construction of 30,41,097 individual household toilets as against the target of construction of one crore such toilets by the year 2019 out of which the Ministry of Urban Development has sanctioned 13,64,814 toilets. Regarding construction of over 5 lakh community and public toilet seats, the Ministry has sanctioned 82,438.

Under the Swachh Bharat Mission in urban areas, 17,411 community and public toilet seats have been built during April-June, 2015 as against 1,222 during October-March of the last financial year. During the said period, 1,13,000 individual household toilets have been constructed as against 2.70 lakhs built during the six months of last financial year.

Since the launch of Swachh Bharat Mission in October last year, a total of 3.83 lakh individual household toilets and 17,411 community and public toilets have been constructed. In respect of Solid Waste Management, 28,908 wards out of the total of 78,003 wards in all the States/UTs have reported 100% door to door collection of solid waste. About 21% of municipal solid waste is being processed as against the target of 44% for March,2016.

Regarding construction of individual household toilets, Gujarat is way ahead of others having built 2,64,331 followed by Madhya Pradesh with 99,151. These two states together account for 94% of the total toilets built till the end of June,2015. These two States are followed by Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Punjab and Maharashtra.

Delhi leads the list of performers in respect of community and public toilets having constructed 5,776 toilet seats followed by Chattisgarh(3,570), Maharashtra(2,520), Chandigarh((2,424) and Karnataka(1,680). These five accounted for 86% of total number of community and public toilet seats constructed so far.

Tamil Nadu is way ahead of others in Solid Waste Management with 9,935 wards out of the total of 13,667 wards reporting 100% door to door collection of waste. It is followed by Karnataka(3962/5252), MP(3024/6855), Andhra Pradesh(2295/3276), and Gujarat(1506/1730).

In all, Gujarat, MP, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Chattisgarh, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Telangana are in the forefront of implementing Swachh Bharat Mission in urban areas. The Ministry of Urban Development is constantly monitoring the programme having held three video-conferences with States/UTs last month.
 
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Horrible #toilets. lack of #Hygiene, at #India’s #aerospace show in #Bangalore. #Modi #AeroIndia2017 http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatime...s-about-our-aspiration-to-be-a-leading-power/ … via @TOIOpinion... it didn’t occur to the organisers that these women would need access to clean toilets. There were just under a dozen toilets for women at the show, each afflicted with its own unique problem. Some had no water, toilet paper rolls or soaps; some had too much water on the floor, forcing the users to roll up their trousers or hitch up their sarees before entering, while some demanded a cross-country trek over unpaved ground, difficult to negotiate in heels.
One thing united them all: absolute lack of hygiene. For a show of this level, the organisers had hired local cleaning women to attend to the toilets, instead of professional housekeepers.
This makes a mockery of everything we claim and aspire for at so many levels. Let’s take each level one by one. We claim to be a leading power in Asia; our prime minister asserts that our time has come and the world must take notice; and he is exhorting global industry to come and ‘Make in India’. Yet, at the biggest showcase event, the infrastructure is so abysmal that foreign participants make sympathetic noises while putting India back in the third or the fourth world.
 
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WE ARE TAKING OUR COUNTRY FIRST my Indian neighbour - IMAGINE THE 'SMELL' & FILTH in rivers THAT COMES FROM INDIA..WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO PROTEST. Is it not caring about our country first?
Do not worry, soon there will be no rivers coming to pakistan so no smell. :)
 
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lol try to fool people in your local Madrassas,not here. :lol:
"The overall access to sanitary latrines at household levels is 42% throughout Pakistan"-i.e. 58% of people still defecate in the open in Pakistan.

http://www.eawag.ch/forschung/siam/lehre/alltagsverhaltenII/pdf/PBehaviorChangeStrategy.pdf

Rest of your rants has already been answered by other Indian posters.Its time that you stop living in dreamland and see the reality.

Chacha Haq's thinking stinks like toilet... he should get a life and focus on his own country.. better help to get rid of polio or help his vountry to build some hospitals.. then pakistanis dont have to come to india for treatement. ...or help to stop begging for money.....do some help to your country Chacha.... indians will take care of their own problems... no need to worry.
 
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