"Ultimately, Khalid said, open defecation "is a behavioral issue, not about access" -- and focus should move to finding out whether Modi's campaign has produced real health impacts."
toilets have been provided to more than 600 million people in 60 months, building more than 110 million toilets
Tell me khalid ,Is this true or not?
96% of people who had access to a toilet used it. The government now says 100% of the country has toilet coverage.
Tell me khalid ,Is this true or not?
"is a behavioral issue, not about access" so what do you mean?
if have the behavior ,as an american citizen (Naturalized former Indian citizen) I never defecate or urinate in the open. I was forced to urinate recently in bangalore when i was stuck in traffic when it took 2 hours to travel 10 miles! there were no toilets and there was no container in the car which I could use.
The issue first and foremost is one of access.
Then comes behavior .
Hundreds of years of habits do not change overnight.
why cant they educate the populace instead of conducting surveys to debunk the claims of the only PM who had the guts to talk about toilets from the ramparts of the Red fort.
(CNN)It was the ambitious sanitation campaign aimed at giving almost half of India's 1.3 billion population access to a toilet in just five years.
And last week, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi finally declared India free of open defecation, when people relieve themselves in fields, bushes, forests, bodies of water, or any other open spaces, rather than use a toilet.
"The world is amazed that toilets have been provided to more than 600 million people in 60 months, building more than 110 million toilets," Modi said on Wednesday, the 150th anniversary of Indian independence icon Mahatma Gandhi's birth. "No one was ready to believe earlier that India will become open defecation-free in such a short period of time. Now, it is a reality."
Bill and melinda gates foundation has spent $200m since 2011 funding reinvented toilets
- Bad sanitation kills 525,000 children under five every year and contributes to malnutrition and the spread of disease.
- Bill Gates thinks it's not practical for the entire world to adopt flush toilets, so he's spending $400 million to fund research into toilets that don't require a sewer system.
- After seven years of investment, some of the first products are available.
Bill Gates isn't afraid of potty talk.
Earlier this month, he got onstage in front of business leaders, investors, and government officials from around the world and unveiled what he politely referred to as a "little exhibit." It was a glass jar filled with human feces.
"It’s good to be reminded, in there could be over 200 trillion rotavirus particles, 20 billion Shigella bacteria, and 100,000 parasitic worm eggs," Gates told the crowd, which had gathered in Beijing, China, for an event called the Reinvented Toilet Expo.
The jar of poo was used to make a point: Around the world, in places without proper sanitation or sewage systems, there's much more than a jar's worth of unsanitary human waste sitting around.
India remains an enigma for foreign investors
Easing of regulatory barriers is not enough to attract businesses
I will deal with this in my next post.
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