Why is INDIA so Dirty?

[khansaheeb]

Government inaction plays a big part

That's because the biggest dirt in the Indian Gov

 

[impossibru]

Because 1.2 billion are stuffed together in a small piece of land. Controlling the population is the only way forward.
Till now things are manageable here but unfortunately, Pakistan is heading in the same direction.

Pakistan has even higher density. 200 million people are stuffed along one river

 

[SecularNationalist]

Pakistan has even higher density. 200 million people are stuffed along one river

Which one river ?

 

[Bilal9]

Pakistan and Bangladesh are pretty dirty too in urban areas tbh. Maybe instead of mocking a country take lessons of what to to or what not to do by looking at their performance.

Well I guess we are dirty - but at least NGO's take responsibility to lower the open defecation rate in Bangladesh that I know of. In India - no one "gives a $hit". Sorry about the pun.

Instead of spending money on the issue - Modi and his propaganda team are doing what they always do, hike up the propaganda.

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Modi declares India open defecation free, claim questioned​

PM Narendra Modi declares India ODF on Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary but experts remain sceptical.

A man carrying water while going to defecate in the open in Greater Noida on the outskirts of New Delhi [File: RS Iyer/AP]
By Bilal Kuchay

Published On 2 Oct 2019

New Delhi, India – Khatija, 40, a resident of JP Colony in New Delhi’s Rama Krishna Puram area walks half a mile (about 1km) every day to Nehru Ekta Colony to use a community toilet.

“There is not a single toilet in our colony,” she told Al Jazeera.

“Every day, there is a queue outside the toilet and people have to wait for their turns. Sometimes for more than half an hour,” Khatija said. “Those who are in an emergency defecate in open. What choice do we have?” she asked.

Wednesday marks 150 years of iconic Indian freedom fighter Mahatma Gandhi‘s birth, a day dedicated by the Indian government to its sanitation goals.

Five years ago, when Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the ambitious Swachh Bharat (Clean India) campaign, he had announced October 2, 2019, as the day India will be free of open defecation free (ODF) – a claim he made in a speech on Wednesday evening.

“In 60 months, 600 million people have been given access to toilets, more than 110 million toilets have been built. The whole world is amazed to hear this,” Modi told a crowd in Ahmedabad city.

Meanwhile, in Khatija’s neighbouring colony, things looked no different.

Dimple Peter, a local social worker, claimed that for a population of more than 800 people, there is just one community toilet with 10 latrines.

“The toilets are often stinky and dirty,” she told Al Jazeera. “Sometimes people think it is better to defecate in open as stinky toilets may lead to diseases.”

Residents said they are forced to defecate in the open as there are not enough community toilets to cater for a large number of people. They also said the toilets remain closed at night.

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“The community toilets remain open from 5am till 9pm. Where will the people go during the night hours?” asked Ahsan-ud Din, 40, who runs a poultry shop.

Rubbish lies under a banner that reads ‘Do Not Throw Garbage’ beside a portrait of Indian PM Narendra Modi in Bengaluru [File: Aijaz Rahi/AP]

ODF was the main objective of the Clean India campaign, which aimed to build 120 million toilets across the country by October 2, 2019.

Its other goals included cleaning up streets and other public infrastructure, achieving 100 percent door-to-door waste collection, building solid waste management plants in each town, and persuading Indians to adopt better sanitation practices.

“A clean India would be the best tribute India could pay to Mahatma Gandhi on his 150 birth anniversary in 2019,” Modi had said while launching the campaign in 2014.

The next five years saw numerous politicians, sportspersons and Bollywood stars participating in a government-sponsored publicity blitz to promote the Clean India campaign, involving millions of dollars.

Before Modi’s speech on Wednesday, the Indian government had already claimed constructing over 100 million of the 120 million toilets planned across the country.

Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban) director VK Jindal told Al Jazeera that toilets had been built in all urban centers and the target had been 100 percent achieved.

So why were people still defecating in the open in the national capital? Jindal blamed “the migrant population which does not stay permanently at one place”.

Last week, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation gave Modi the “Global Goalkeeper” award for the Clean India campaign and for publicizing the benefits of sanitation and hygiene.

The New York-based foundation was widely criticized for its decision and one of its employees quit in protest.

Experts question claim​

Hours after Modi received the award, two Dalit (former untouchables) children – Roshni Valmiki, 12, and her 10-year-old nephew, Avinash – were beaten to death in a village in central India’s Madhya Pradesh state for defecating in the open.

Avinash’s father Manoj Valmiki told Al Jazeera they lived in a small hut without a toilet.

Ironically, their village was declared ODF by the government in April last year.

Open defecation refers to the practice whereby people defecate in fields, bushes, forests, open bodies of water or other open spaces rather than using a toilet.
More than 300 million Indians were still defecating in the open in 2017, according to the World Bank.

A girl holds a can filled with water and walks past railway tracks to defecate in the open in Mumbai [File: Rajanish Kakade/AP]

Experts said that while the construction of toilets has increased, lack of water, poor maintenance and slow changes in behaviour have stood in the way of ending the practice.

The Research Institute for Compassionate Economics (RICE) surveyed 3,235 households in four north Indian states in 2014 and 2018.

Their research, released in January this year, found that open defecation had reduced by 26 percent since Clean India was launched and access to household toilets increased from 37 percent in 2014 to 71 percent in 2018.

However, the study found that 23 percent of people who owned a toilet continued to defecate in the open, including in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh states, which have been declared ODF.

“During our research, we saw people defecating in the open in villages that were otherwise declared ODF,” said Nazar Khalid, a research fellow at RICE.

“We also found latrine construction was often accomplished through coercion. People were told that if they did not build toilets, they will not get benefits under various government schemes,” he added.

Avani Kapur of the Centre for Policy Research (CPR) said it was too soon to declare India ODF as challenges remained on sustainable toilet technology, and safe cleaning and disposal of waste.

“We may lose momentum by calling ourselves completely ODF,” she said.

But the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) claims the goals of the Clean India campaign have been “almost reached”.

“A huge behavioural change has been witnessed among people across India since the mission was launched,” BJP spokesman Shahnawaz Hussain told Al Jazeera.

“The mission has almost achieved its goal. We are close to the benchmark,” he said. “The dream of Mahatma Gandhi of a clean India is being fulfilled by Prime Minister Modi.”

Rejecting the BJP’s claims as “bogus”, Sanjay Nirupam of the opposition Congress party said people were defecating in the open even in cities such as Mumbai.
“This government is working only to create headlines,” he told Al Jazeera by telephone.

“The government should provide the facility to every household and we support the government in that. But to claim that everybody has got a toilet and nobody is going in the open is completely a bogus statement.”

SOURCE: AL JAZEERA

Modi declares India open defecation free, claim questioned

PM Narendra Modi declares India ODF on Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary but experts remain sceptical.

www.aljazeera.com

 

[SIPRA]

Which one river ?

Better to ignore such "Phuddu-Phalant" posts.

 

[N.Siddiqui]

Dirt increases your immune efficiency. Or rather being dirty decreases your immune deficiency, Indians are clever and genuis?? Yes, No!!

A little dirt is good for you

A little dirt is good for you

www.livemint.com

If being too clean makes us sick, why isn’t getting dirty the solution?

Being too clean isn’t what’s making us sick. It’s the loss of biodiversity in the bacteria and organisms that live in our bodies and work with the immune system.

theconversation.com

 

[K_Bin_W]

Well I guess we are dirty - but at least NGO's take responsibility to lower the open defecation rate in Bangladesh that I know of. In India - no one "gives a $hit". Sorry about the pun.

Instead of spending money on the issue - Modi and his propaganda team are doing what they always do, hike up the propaganda.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Modi declares India open defecation free, claim questioned​

PM Narendra Modi declares India ODF on Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary but experts remain sceptical.

A man carrying water while going to defecate in the open in Greater Noida on the outskirts of New Delhi [File: RS Iyer/AP]
By Bilal Kuchay

Published On 2 Oct 2019

New Delhi, India – Khatija, 40, a resident of JP Colony in New Delhi’s Rama Krishna Puram area walks half a mile (about 1km) every day to Nehru Ekta Colony to use a community toilet.

“There is not a single toilet in our colony,” she told Al Jazeera.

“Every day, there is a queue outside the toilet and people have to wait for their turns. Sometimes for more than half an hour,” Khatija said. “Those who are in an emergency defecate in open. What choice do we have?” she asked.

Wednesday marks 150 years of iconic Indian freedom fighter Mahatma Gandhi‘s birth, a day dedicated by the Indian government to its sanitation goals.

Five years ago, when Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the ambitious Swachh Bharat (Clean India) campaign, he had announced October 2, 2019, as the day India will be free of open defecation free (ODF) – a claim he made in a speech on Wednesday evening.

“In 60 months, 600 million people have been given access to toilets, more than 110 million toilets have been built. The whole world is amazed to hear this,” Modi told a crowd in Ahmedabad city.

Meanwhile, in Khatija’s neighbouring colony, things looked no different.

Dimple Peter, a local social worker, claimed that for a population of more than 800 people, there is just one community toilet with 10 latrines.

“The toilets are often stinky and dirty,” she told Al Jazeera. “Sometimes people think it is better to defecate in open as stinky toilets may lead to diseases.”

Residents said they are forced to defecate in the open as there are not enough community toilets to cater for a large number of people. They also said the toilets remain closed at night.

​

“The community toilets remain open from 5am till 9pm. Where will the people go during the night hours?” asked Ahsan-ud Din, 40, who runs a poultry shop.

Rubbish lies under a banner that reads ‘Do Not Throw Garbage’ beside a portrait of Indian PM Narendra Modi in Bengaluru [File: Aijaz Rahi/AP]

ODF was the main objective of the Clean India campaign, which aimed to build 120 million toilets across the country by October 2, 2019.

Its other goals included cleaning up streets and other public infrastructure, achieving 100 percent door-to-door waste collection, building solid waste management plants in each town, and persuading Indians to adopt better sanitation practices.

“A clean India would be the best tribute India could pay to Mahatma Gandhi on his 150 birth anniversary in 2019,” Modi had said while launching the campaign in 2014.

The next five years saw numerous politicians, sportspersons and Bollywood stars participating in a government-sponsored publicity blitz to promote the Clean India campaign, involving millions of dollars.

Before Modi’s speech on Wednesday, the Indian government had already claimed constructing over 100 million of the 120 million toilets planned across the country.

Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban) director VK Jindal told Al Jazeera that toilets had been built in all urban centers and the target had been 100 percent achieved.

So why were people still defecating in the open in the national capital? Jindal blamed “the migrant population which does not stay permanently at one place”.

Last week, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation gave Modi the “Global Goalkeeper” award for the Clean India campaign and for publicizing the benefits of sanitation and hygiene.

The New York-based foundation was widely criticized for its decision and one of its employees quit in protest.

Experts question claim​

Hours after Modi received the award, two Dalit (former untouchables) children – Roshni Valmiki, 12, and her 10-year-old nephew, Avinash – were beaten to death in a village in central India’s Madhya Pradesh state for defecating in the open.

Avinash’s father Manoj Valmiki told Al Jazeera they lived in a small hut without a toilet.

Ironically, their village was declared ODF by the government in April last year.

Open defecation refers to the practice whereby people defecate in fields, bushes, forests, open bodies of water or other open spaces rather than using a toilet.
More than 300 million Indians were still defecating in the open in 2017, according to the World Bank.

A girl holds a can filled with water and walks past railway tracks to defecate in the open in Mumbai [File: Rajanish Kakade/AP]

Experts said that while the construction of toilets has increased, lack of water, poor maintenance and slow changes in behaviour have stood in the way of ending the practice.

The Research Institute for Compassionate Economics (RICE) surveyed 3,235 households in four north Indian states in 2014 and 2018.

Their research, released in January this year, found that open defecation had reduced by 26 percent since Clean India was launched and access to household toilets increased from 37 percent in 2014 to 71 percent in 2018.

However, the study found that 23 percent of people who owned a toilet continued to defecate in the open, including in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh states, which have been declared ODF.

“During our research, we saw people defecating in the open in villages that were otherwise declared ODF,” said Nazar Khalid, a research fellow at RICE.

“We also found latrine construction was often accomplished through coercion. People were told that if they did not build toilets, they will not get benefits under various government schemes,” he added.

Avani Kapur of the Centre for Policy Research (CPR) said it was too soon to declare India ODF as challenges remained on sustainable toilet technology, and safe cleaning and disposal of waste.

“We may lose momentum by calling ourselves completely ODF,” she said.

But the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) claims the goals of the Clean India campaign have been “almost reached”.

“A huge behavioural change has been witnessed among people across India since the mission was launched,” BJP spokesman Shahnawaz Hussain told Al Jazeera.

“The mission has almost achieved its goal. We are close to the benchmark,” he said. “The dream of Mahatma Gandhi of a clean India is being fulfilled by Prime Minister Modi.”

Rejecting the BJP’s claims as “bogus”, Sanjay Nirupam of the opposition Congress party said people were defecating in the open even in cities such as Mumbai.
“This government is working only to create headlines,” he told Al Jazeera by telephone.

“The government should provide the facility to every household and we support the government in that. But to claim that everybody has got a toilet and nobody is going in the open is completely a bogus statement.”

SOURCE: AL JAZEERA

Modi declares India open defecation free, claim questioned

PM Narendra Modi declares India ODF on Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary but experts remain sceptical.

www.aljazeera.com

Per UN numbers at one time 780M Indians uncoiled out in the open but 56 took care of that problem just like that now there are no more street shytters... Amazing... This is what you call progress Indian style....

 

[Bilal9]

Per UN numbers at one time 780M Indians uncoiled out in the open but 56 took care of that problem just like that now there are no more street shytters... Amazing... This is what you call progress Indian style....

Historically Indians have always done this "Mynndd owar matterr" thingie. Cavorting in Gobar, eating it. Taking dips in water full of dead bodies.....

Hide "dirt" under the rug using propaganda (and distraction, e.g. "squirrell"!) and all is hunky dory - as long as no one knows who cares? Standard Modi and Godi Media MO.

The problem is, shortcuts in hygiene and dirty habits have a way of coming back and biting collective a$$. Like Covid and other pandemics to come in the future. Payback is always a BI*CH......

 

[SecularNationalist]

Better to ignore such "Phuddu-Phalant" posts.

I rechecked the map of Pakistan to ensure maybe there is a secret river flowing

 

[Maira La]

আমি ত্রিপুরায় থাকি এবং একজন বাঙালি
আমি আমার ভারতকে ভালবাসি

So you are ex-BD playing pajeet. Stop supporting leftover of British colonial project in South Asia. It's not the natural state of things in the region.. Tripura should be an independent country dominated by Bengalis, or absorbed into BD altogether.

 

[walterbibikow]

So you are ex-BD playing pajeet. Stop supporting leftover of British colonial project in South Asia. It's not the natural state of things in the region.. Tripura should be an independent country dominated by Bengalis, or absorbed into BD altogether.

I'm a proud Indian. Bangladesh is a hell for minorities including Hindus
Bangladesh was not even formed when my ancestors moved into India. Islamic fanatics like you have burned the house of my ancestors. They were forced to leave that 4th world shithole

 

[Maira La]

Bangladesh is a hell for minorities including Hindus

If you're non-Brahmin Hindu life is much better in BD. Hindus are a very pampered bunch and everyone's sensitive about hurting minority feelings.

 

[RescueRanger]

Over population, high density urban spaces, lack of instrastructure and lack of civic responsibility among the citizens. These are the reason.

 

[walterbibikow]

If you're non-Brahmin Hindu life is much better in BD. Hindus are a very pampered bunch and everyone's sensitive about hurting minority feelings.

Yeah very true

Population of minority religions decrease further in Bangladesh

The number of people belonging to minority religions in the context of Bangladesh has decreased, according to the latest census conducted in 2022. The census shows that the ratio of Hindu population and Buddhist population stands at 7.95% and 0.61% of the whole population. Whereas, Hindus...

www.tbsnews.net

There may be no Hindus left in Bangladesh in 30 years - The Sunday Guardian Live

In 2001, following the electoral victory of BNP led by Khaleda Zia, her supporters unleashed a systematic campaign of violence against Hindus for about

www.sundayguardianlive.com

Bangladesh: Arsonists Vandalise 66 Houses, Torch 20 Hindu Houses Amidst Protests

As many as 52 suspects have been arrested, police have said.

www.google.com

 

[Maira La]

Yeah very true

Population of minority religions decrease further in Bangladesh

The number of people belonging to minority religions in the context of Bangladesh has decreased, according to the latest census conducted in 2022. The census shows that the ratio of Hindu population and Buddhist population stands at 7.95% and 0.61% of the whole population. Whereas, Hindus...

www.tbsnews.net

In absolute numbers Hindu population continues to rapidly grow in size, but percentage wise decreased because of higher Muslim fertility rate historically (not anymore maybe).