UP: lack of toilets forces six brides to desert in-laws' house
10 years, 7 months ago

UP: lack of toilets forces six brides to desert in-laws' house

Hindustan Times  

Asserting their basic right and dignity -- a proper toilet in their marital home -- six newlyweds cutting across communities, have left their in-laws' homes in protest. The newlyweds -- Neelam, Kalawati, Sakina, Niranjan, Gudiya and Sita -- from Khesiya village in Kushinagar district, who went back to their parental homes, are however, willing to return once proper toilets are provided. The rebellion in the span of a month has prompted Sulabh International – known for providing low-cost toilet to rural households -- founder Bindeshwar Pathak to construct toilets at the in-laws' houses of all the six newlyweds. "The problem is especially acute in rural areas where women suffer the most due to lack of toilets," said Pathak.

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Toilet etiquette? Indian women get a bum deal
2 weeks ago

Toilet etiquette? Indian women get a bum deal

Times of India  

Earlier this month, Air India’s flight from Chicago to Delhi returned to O’Hare International Airport because 8 of 10 toilets onboard were clogged with plastic bags, socks, hand towels and even underwear, sparking a debate on plane loo etiquette. Even if we wear slippers and go, eventually you have to climb back up to your seat to sleep and I …

Despite early gains of Swachh Bharat Mission, toilet use declining since 2018-19: World Bank paper
1 year, 5 months ago

Despite early gains of Swachh Bharat Mission, toilet use declining since 2018-19: World Bank paper

The Hindu  

A departmental working paper by the World Bank on the progress of the Swacch Bharat Mission - Gramin has now found that despite “breathtaking” gains made by the programme to bring toilet access to rural India since 2014-15, when it began, there has been a clear trend of regular toilet use declining in rural India from 2018-19 onwards, with the …

42% Urban Indians Believe Availability of Public Toilets Has Improved: Survey - News18
1 year, 5 months ago

42% Urban Indians Believe Availability of Public Toilets Has Improved: Survey - News18

News 18  

As India marks nine years of Swachh Bharat Mission today, 42% urban citizens believe that availability of public toilets has improved since the start of the campaign, according to a LocalCircles survey. ‘30% URBAN INDIANS SEE SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENT’ The survey sought to know from citizens: ‘How has the availability of functional public toilets in your district/ city improved in the …

Ensuring the city doesn’t stink, NGOs score sanitation goals
2 years, 4 months ago

Ensuring the city doesn’t stink, NGOs score sanitation goals

Hindustan Times  

There’s a lot that has been done in the field of creating awareness for sanitation and highlighting the importance of having access to toilets. Delhi-based NGO BasicShit has installed around 180 toilets in Delhi and recycled over 10 metric tonnes of plastic. He adds, “So far, we have installed around 180 toilets in Delhi and recycled over 10 metric tonnes …

Putting The 'Her' in Haryana: A Toilet Trainer, A Courageous Cop, And A Resolute Wrestler - News18
2 years, 8 months ago

Putting The 'Her' in Haryana: A Toilet Trainer, A Courageous Cop, And A Resolute Wrestler - News18

News 18  

Independent India turns 75 this year and no celebration would be complete without honouring the women whose work and passion take the nation to greater heights every day. Today, we celebrate passionate proponent of household toilets for women Ritu, intrepid station house officer Dharamli Devi, and 15-year-old spirited wrestler Priya Sharma. I have two daughters and I don’t want them …

Data | Over 25% rural households defecate in the open in contrast to Swachh Bharat data
2 years, 10 months ago

Data | Over 25% rural households defecate in the open in contrast to Swachh Bharat data

The Hindu  

On October 2, 2019, all the villages in the 36 States and Union Territories of India were declared open defecation-free. Among rural Scheduled Tribe households, 65% had access to toilets, whereas more than 85% of non-Scheduled Caste, non-ST and non-Other Backward Classes households did. Click to remove AMP mode State-wise share The chart depicts the State-wise share of households in …

19% households do not use any toilet facility: NFHS survey
2 years, 10 months ago

19% households do not use any toilet facility: NFHS survey

Firstpost  

However, the report said the percentage of households practising open defecation decreased from 39 percent in 2015-16 to 19 per cent in 2019-21 New Delhi: Even though India was declared Open Defecation Free by the government in 2019, the latest NFHS survey conducted in 2019-21 showed that 19 per cent of households do not use any toilet facility. However, the …

Lessons from past sanitation policies for future efforts
3 years, 4 months ago

Lessons from past sanitation policies for future efforts

Live Mint  

The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal No. And yet, despite decades of national sanitation policies, data from the fifth National Family Health Survey indicates that India is far from achieving it. It is thus important to understand the evolution of India’s sanitation policies and lessons that will help India frame revised sanitation policies and achieve SDG 6 by 2030. The …

Swachh Bharat toilets alone won't end open defecation; practice persists due to caste norms, drainage woes
4 years ago

Swachh Bharat toilets alone won't end open defecation; practice persists due to caste norms, drainage woes

Firstpost  

In 1986, the Central government had launched the Central Rural Sanitation Programme — the first nationwide programme aimed at dealing with issues related to sanitation. On 2 October, 2019, Prime Minister Narendra Modi proclaimed that “rural India and its villages have declared themselves open defecation-free”, five years after the launch of the Centre’s flagship programme Swachh Bharat Mission. This ultimately …

Survey data again casts doubt over reality of open defecation-free India
4 years, 2 months ago

Survey data again casts doubt over reality of open defecation-free India

Live Mint  

In late 2019, the Narendra Modi government attempted to delay and then discredit an official survey that showed sanitation coverage was far lower than it was claimed. Another major government survey has now confirmed the trend: in five states, over one-third of the rural population still lack exclusive access to ‘improved’ sanitation for their households. By the end of 2020, …

Data | Three government surveys debunk Swachh Bharat's 100% ODF claim
4 years, 3 months ago

Data | Three government surveys debunk Swachh Bharat's 100% ODF claim

The Hindu  

What is the share of the rural population in India that is not defecating in the open? The National Annual Rural Sanitation Survey The second comparison is between the SBM data on individual household latrine coverage as of March 2019 and the National Annual Rural Sanitation Survey data on rural households with access to their own toilets between Nov. 2019 …

No toilets, a sanitation challenge at farmer agitation sites in Delhi
4 years, 3 months ago

No toilets, a sanitation challenge at farmer agitation sites in Delhi

Hindustan Times  

Farmers camping at Delhi’s borders may have stacked ration for months even as they ready themselves potentially for the long haul but they face one problem, toilets. With no toilets made available for them at the city’s borders, the farmers are compelled to either use empty plots and agricultural fields or are at the mercy of the goodwill of local …

Hyderabad: Poor feel toilets are for the rich – Unicef expert
5 years, 3 months ago

Hyderabad: Poor feel toilets are for the rich – Unicef expert

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Behavioural change among people is important for India to achieve the status of being a country free from open defecation, an issue that continues to be a challenge. Now that 10 crore toilets have been additionally built, along with the earlier six crore of them, people must start using them. Hence the effort in rural areas has been to …

India’s toilet stats raise a stink
5 years, 3 months ago

India’s toilet stats raise a stink

Live Mint  

India’s villages are now officially open defecation free, according to those who were assigned this target: the sanitation department, now subsumed under the Jal Shakti ministry. The 76th NSS round conducted by the National Statistical Organization found that as of September 2018, 28.7% of India’s rural households lacked access to toilets and 32% practised open defecation. In case of the …

Toilets: The economic impact of sanitation
5 years, 4 months ago

Toilets: The economic impact of sanitation

Al Jazeera  

More than 4 billion people lack access to proper sanitation, and that limits economic growth. But current data shows that today, there are 4.2 billion people around the world without safely managed sanitation services. “This recognition of sanitation as a human right, confirmed by the UN General Assembly in 2015, brings with it a greater sense of responsibility and a …

Toilet targets: On ending open defecation
5 years, 5 months ago

Toilet targets: On ending open defecation

The Hindu  

India’s declaration on the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi that its rural areas are now open defecation-free will be acknowledged around the world as a milestone in its developmental journey. That 110 million toilets were built under this programme since then counts as an achievement in itself, even though many of these structures have been bootstrapped to ramshackle dwellings; …

Experts Question Government’s Claim of India Becoming ODF-Free
5 years, 5 months ago

Experts Question Government’s Claim of India Becoming ODF-Free

The Quint  

CSE director general Sunita Narain said till five years ago, India was home to 60 percent of the world's people who defecated in the open. "If the nation now achieves ODF status, it means a huge leap forward not only for it, but for the world as a whole. It will take the world a long way on its sustainable …

Opinion | Aaj Ki Baat October 2 episode: Modi fulfills one big promise, an open defecation free India
5 years, 5 months ago

Opinion | Aaj Ki Baat October 2 episode: Modi fulfills one big promise, an open defecation free India

India TV News  

More than five years ago, on August 15, 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his first address to the nation from the ramparts of historic Red Fort, vowed to fulfill Mahatma Gandhi's dream of a clean India on his 150th birth anniversary in 2019. October 2 this year was, in a sense, a day of celebration for Indian womanhood, as …

Uptick for India on sanitation in UN report
5 years, 9 months ago

Uptick for India on sanitation in UN report

The Hindu  

India has made great gains in providing basic sanitation facilities since the start of the millennium, accounting for almost two thirds of the 650 million people globally who stopped practising open defecation between 2000 and 2017. “India’s Swachh Bharat mission has been an example and inspiration to other countries, especially in Africa, but also East and South Asia,” said Mr. …

Few central government schemes that helped BJP in coming back to power with a greater mandate
5 years, 10 months ago

Few central government schemes that helped BJP in coming back to power with a greater mandate

Op India  

In a historic win, the BJP clinched a total of 303 seats in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections and a total of 353 seats for the BJP led NDA. According to the official government website, since 2nd October 2014 more than 9 crore toilets have been built achieving an overall 99.17% of access to toilets in rural households till date. …

Women need twice as many public toilets as men, say health experts
5 years, 10 months ago

Women need twice as many public toilets as men, say health experts

The Independent  

Sign up for the Independent Women email for the latest news, opinion and features Get the Independent Women email for free Get the Independent Women email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Toilet provisions should be increased across the country, so that there are …

Ladies VROOM
6 years, 1 month ago

Ladies VROOM

Deccan Chronicle  

Lending a hand to the Swachh Bharat initiative, a couple in Pune is providing sanitation solutions for women, with aesthetically designed toilets from scrapped old buses. a The sanitation entrepreneurs have been in the business of providing portable toilets for events and construction sites for the last two decades but this time, the duo wanted to push the envelope further. …

Woman cancels wedding after learning groom’s house doesn’t have a toilet
6 years, 2 months ago

Woman cancels wedding after learning groom’s house doesn’t have a toilet

Hindustan Times  

Is the state capital really open defecation-free? Officials of the Lucknow Municipal Corporation say yes, but ask Noor Ali, a resident of Branch road Daliganj, and the answer will be no. Noor Ali’s marriage was cancelled as the bride-to-be refused to marry him after she learnt that his two-room house did not have a toilet. “I pleaded with the bride’s …

'Public participation has improved rural sanitation,' says Narendra Modi on Swachh Bharat Mission
6 years, 5 months ago

'Public participation has improved rural sanitation,' says Narendra Modi on Swachh Bharat Mission

Firstpost  

Narendra Modi addressed the concluding session of the Mahatma Gandhi International Sanitation Convention where Sanitation Ministers and other leaders in WASH were in attendance. New Delhi: Political leadership accompanied by public funding, partnership and people’s participation can help the world in achieving total sanitation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday on the occasion of 149th birth anniversary of Mahatma …

How access to civic amenities vary across India
6 years, 7 months ago

How access to civic amenities vary across India

Live Mint  

Over the past five years, India has been witness to a silent but important transformation. Household access to civic amenities such as power, clean fuel, toilets and mobiles have gone up sharply, a Mint analysis of data from the National Family Health Survey conducted in 2015-16 and the last census conducted in 2011 shows. The share of households with access …

93% rural households with access to toilets use them, reveals national sanitation survey
7 years ago

93% rural households with access to toilets use them, reveals national sanitation survey

Firstpost  

Over 93 percent rural households which have access to toilets are using them and about 77 percent of houses in such areas have got toilets, the government- Over 93 percent of rural households that have access to toilets use them and around 77 percent of houses in such areas have toilets, the government- According to a report in The Times …

India’s ambitious plans to achieve sanitation for all must look beyond building individual toilets
7 years, 5 months ago

India’s ambitious plans to achieve sanitation for all must look beyond building individual toilets

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Access to sanitation has attracted more attention in India over the past few years thanks …

More toilet talk vital for a cleaner India
7 years, 5 months ago

More toilet talk vital for a cleaner India

Deccan Chronicle  

Meeting sanitation targets is important but targets alone won’t mean much unless the people buy into the messages behind the toilet talk. The Accountability Initiative of the New Delhi-based Centre for Policy Research notes while building of individual household toilets accounts for the largest share of the Swachchh Bharat Mission’s total expenditure, and has been consistently rising over years, IEC …

Indian woman granted divorce because husband failed to provide family with indoor toilet
7 years, 7 months ago

Indian woman granted divorce because husband failed to provide family with indoor toilet

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy There's a newly released Bollywood …

‘No Toilet At Home Amounts To Cruelty’: Family Court Grants Divorce
7 years, 7 months ago

‘No Toilet At Home Amounts To Cruelty’: Family Court Grants Divorce

Live Law  

A Family Court in Rajasthan’s Bhilawara District has reportedly granted a woman’s plea for divorce, ruling that absence of a toilet at home amounts to cruelty.“Has it ever pained us that our mothers and sisters have to go to defecate in the open? A Family Court in Rajasthan’s Bhilawara District has reportedly granted a woman’s plea for divorce, ruling that …

Indore: Municipality toilets are not ‘Swachh’ enough
8 years, 3 months ago

Indore: Municipality toilets are not ‘Swachh’ enough

Hindustan Times  

As it works towards improving its ranking in the Swachh Bharat survey, Indore may hit a stumbling block as most of the public and community toilets constructed by the municipal corporation here have been found lacking the basic infrastructure. A man uses public toilet built by Indore Municipal Corporation near Bhawarkuwa area. In the last one year, the civic body …

88% of households in India have a mobile phone
8 years, 3 months ago

88% of households in India have a mobile phone

Live Mint  

When the results of the 2011 census were published, one stark finding stood out: more households had mobile phones than toilets in India. The same proportion of households have access to electricity, but far fewer households have access to toilets or tap water, the survey shows. The ICE 360° survey shows a significant improvement in household amenities such as access …

Swachh Bharat: Girl students in Bihar school give up jewellery to construct toilets at home
8 years, 5 months ago

Swachh Bharat: Girl students in Bihar school give up jewellery to construct toilets at home

Firstpost  

Several Class 10 students of a school in Buxar district in Bihar have forsworn gold jewellery until their parents build toilet in their homes to save them the shame of having to go out into the open to defecate Buxar, Bihar: Several Class 10 students of a school in Bihar have forsworn gold jewellery until their parents build toilets in …

Most of rural India still opts for open defecation: NSS report
8 years, 11 months ago

Most of rural India still opts for open defecation: NSS report

The Hindu  

More than half the rural population of the country still opts for open defecation, says the recently released Swachhta Status Report by the National Sample Survey Office. The survey estimates that 52.1 per cent of people in rural India choose open defecation compared to 7.5 per cent in urban India. In the survey, 45.3 per cent rural households reported having …

Indian woman refuses to marry man because there's no toilet in his house
8 years, 11 months ago

Indian woman refuses to marry man because there's no toilet in his house

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. After finding out why she rejected her groom, the …

Khamman: Address women's sanitary issues first
9 years, 2 months ago

Khamman: Address women's sanitary issues first

Deccan Chronicle  

Khammam: Lack of individual toilet in the houses in rural areas is a curse for the womenfolk in the family. Efforts made at meeting the sanitation challenges have been found to have very limited results, with as high as 40 per cent of the families not having toilet facilities coupled with very low use of existing toilets in urban and …

A cry for help in India’s Bihar state: ‘We need a toilet desperately’
9 years, 2 months ago

A cry for help in India’s Bihar state: ‘We need a toilet desperately’

LA Times  

Kaliya Devi awakens at 4 a.m., fills a small bucket with water and walks 10 minutes to farmland outside her village in northern India. “Nothing has happened since then.” Sudha Varghese, the head of Nari Gunjan, said the government approved the toilet project but never provided money it promised for installation. “The administrators should directly deal with the villagers.” It …

India's trouble with toilets: Government sanitation drives fail to sway those who believe going outdoors is more wholesome
9 years, 7 months ago

India's trouble with toilets: Government sanitation drives fail to sway those who believe going outdoors is more wholesome

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “The government employee who constructed it told me we …

Poor sanitation linked to premature birth
9 years, 8 months ago

Poor sanitation linked to premature birth

The Hindu  

Poor sanitary practices, such as open defecation, are affecting pregnancy outcomes of Indian women, especially premature birth, says a study. They found that, compared to women who used a latrine, women who defecated in the open faced a significantly greater risk of getting adverse pregnancy outcomes and preterm birth, but not low birth weight. Although the researchers took account of …

India has made progress in reducing open defecation rates: UN
9 years, 8 months ago

India has made progress in reducing open defecation rates: UN

The Hindu  

India has made “moderate” progress in reducing open defecation rates among its population and has succeeded in providing access to improved drinking water to more people in urban and rural areas, according to a UN report. The Joint Monitoring Programme report titled “Progress on Sanitation and Drinking Water: 2015 Update and MDG Assessment” released by the UN Children’s Fund and …

2.4 billion global population still live without toilets: United Nations
9 years, 8 months ago

2.4 billion global population still live without toilets: United Nations

Live Mint  

London: The poor’s lack of access to sanitation threatens to undermine the health benefits they have gained from access to clean water, the United Nations said on Tuesday. More than 90% of the world population has access to clean water, but 2.4 billion people, most in rural areas, continue to live without toilets, the UN children’s agency UNICEF and World …

Mission Clean India: Building one latrine at a time
9 years, 9 months ago

Mission Clean India: Building one latrine at a time

Al Jazeera  

About 597 million Indians defecate in public, but a government vow to build new toilets has become a reality for many. “It will be the best way to honour Mahatma Gandhi on the 150th anniversary of his birth,” Modi said in one speech. “After all, the father of India was always clear on the issue.” Modi quoted Gandhi as saying: …

Toilets constructed for 33 lakh rural families:Punjab govt - India TV News
9 years, 9 months ago

Toilets constructed for 33 lakh rural families:Punjab govt - India TV News

India TV News  

Chandigarh : Punjab government today claimed that it has constructed 33 lakh toilets for rural families under the ‘Swacch Bharat Abhiyan,which enlists elimination of open-defecation as one of its objectives. A government spokesperson said the total budget earmarked for this purpose was Rs 937 crore and added that 7.92 lakh families would be covered during the next three years. Punjab …

Accounting for toilets, but no accountability for sanitation
10 years, 1 month ago

Accounting for toilets, but no accountability for sanitation

Live Mint  

The one thing India doesn’t need in the budget is a big financial outlay for sanitation. After all, when the Swachh Bharat Mission was announced late last year, the National Democratic Alliance government committed to spending ₹ 1.34 trillion to build more than 110 million toilets all over India by 2019. That solving India’s sanitation is not merely a project …

Bengal's Nadia district does its own 'Swachh Bharat' without extra funds
10 years, 2 months ago

Bengal's Nadia district does its own 'Swachh Bharat' without extra funds

India TV News  

Kolkata: West Bengal's Nadia district is poised to complete building toilets for all its residents by next March, under a programme which has been shortlisted for the United Nations global award for public service. Nadia district magistrate PB Salim said that 95 per cent of the people had already stopped defecating in the open and by this March they would …

Unused rural toilets to face public scrutiny
10 years, 2 months ago

Unused rural toilets to face public scrutiny

The Hindu  

The government proposes to mobilise public support for naming and shaming those not using toilets in rural India. The Ministry on Wednesday said people would be mobilised to check and verify the use of toilets in rural areas and could post photos or upload data through mobile phones or tablets. The monitoring system will give a big push to the …

Toilets on paper
10 years, 5 months ago

Toilets on paper

The Hindu  

In 2019, India will observe the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, who gave the clarion call, “Clean up your own mess.” But even 67 years after Independence, our cities and towns present a sorry picture replete with mounds of garbage, rotting sewers and children defecating in the open. The Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan will be a significant jump forward — …

Mere construction of toilets will not address India's sanitation woes: Study
10 years, 5 months ago

Mere construction of toilets will not address India's sanitation woes: Study

India TV News  

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi may be making construction of toilets a key issue in the first year of his office, but a recent study stated that mere building toilets will not solve the sanitation woes of India, which is considered to have world's worst record in spending money on building toilets. The study, which was recently published in …

Increased toilet coverage has little health impact: study
10 years, 5 months ago

Increased toilet coverage has little health impact: study

The Hindu  

Is building toilets improving health in India? In a paper published on Friday morning in the medical journal Lancet, >researchers led by Thomas Clasen of the U.S.-based Emory University found that increased toilet coverage did not lead to any significant improvements in the occurrence of child diarrhoea, prevalence of parasitic worm infections, child stunting or child mortality. For their study, …

More men among toilet-sceptics in India
10 years, 6 months ago

More men among toilet-sceptics in India

The Hindu  

Extensive new evidence shows that building toilets alone will not eliminate open defecation in India as not everyone who has access to toilet, especially men, believe that it’s important to use it. Not having a toilet remains the major problem in sanitation: 60 per cent of rural households and just under 10 per cent of urban households in India do …

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