A sanitation crisis in India
11 years ago

A sanitation crisis in India

The Hindu  

Highlighting issues like menstrual hygiene management, women’s dignity and poor defecation facilities, a national convention on Tuesday raised concern on the sanitation crisis in India which has reached an alarming stage. Naffisa Barot from Gujarat talked about women’s dignity and menstrual hygiene management. “There is an issue of women’s dignity and safety, especially in the light of increasing sexual violence on women and menstrual hygiene management and this needs to be addressed,” said Barot. “We should see the right to sanitation in a much broader perspective, the management of human waste should be treated in an environment-friendly manner and in line with human dignity,” said K.J.

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Easy access to clean toilets a basic right, essential for human dignity, says Supreme Court judgment
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Easy access to clean toilets a basic right, essential for human dignity, says Supreme Court judgment

The Hindu  

The Supreme Court on Wednesday declared that easy access to clean public toilets for all — including men, women, persons with disabilities, and transgender persons — is not just a matter of convenience but a basic right and an essential part of human dignity. “Though public toilets are built near every toll plaza in the National Highways across the country, …

World Toilet Day 2024: Why it matters and India's efforts towards sanitation
4 months, 1 week ago

World Toilet Day 2024: Why it matters and India's efforts towards sanitation

India Today  

World Toilet Day, observed annually on November 19, highlights the global sanitation crisis and the urgent need to provide safe and secure toilets for all. With 3.5 billion people still lacking access to safely managed sanitation, including 419 million practising open defecation, this year’s theme, Sanitation for Peace, underscores the role of resilient sanitation systems in building a fairer and …

Children's Sanitation Revolution: A Decade of Progress and Impact
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Children's Sanitation Revolution: A Decade of Progress and Impact

The Hindu  

A decade of India's transformative sanitation mission, the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM), has been transformational for the people of India in more ways than one. It has saved lives, empowered women, and led to sustainable practices. The SBM has also become a global model for people-led and people-driven public movements. The mission has shown that when you empower children and …

In Surat’s turnaround in sanitation, a story of hope
1 year, 1 month ago

In Surat’s turnaround in sanitation, a story of hope

Hindustan Times  

The ascendance of Surat as the cleanest city in India, announced last month, has multiple narratives. First, it makes the chaotic task of city sanitation an achievable goal for India’s 5,000 urban local bodies. The cleanest city tag is no longer the exclusive preserve of Indore, which lifted the crown with predictable regularity soon after Swachh Survekshan was instituted by …

World Toilet Day: An Occasion To Mark India’s Progress
1 year, 4 months ago

World Toilet Day: An Occasion To Mark India’s Progress

News 18  

The World Toilet Day, marked on November 19 every year, is a significant day for India. This was the state of our affairs that led Shri Narendra Modiji to issue a clarion call for sanitation to become the nation’s foremost priority in his first Independence Day address as the Prime Minister. 130 crore citizens rose up in response to script …

A draft menstrual hygiene policy, at long last
1 year, 5 months ago

A draft menstrual hygiene policy, at long last

The Hindu  

While the debate about whether menstrual leaves must be given or not occupied space, time and effort, more recently, traditionally, menstrual hygiene or the access or affordability of menstrual products and private and clean toilets have not been the flavour of any season. The Centre’s Menstrual Hygiene Policy, which was recently hosted online for comments from the public and experts, …

Menstrual health is a public health issue
1 year, 10 months ago

Menstrual health is a public health issue

The Hindu  

In a recent incident, a man from a city in Maharashtra allegedly killed his 12-year-old sister because he mistook period stains on her clothes as a sign of a sexual relationship. In urban India, girls and women navigate a good part of their life in the public domain — a young working woman travels for hours by public transport, a …

World Menstrual Hygiene Day 2023: What are India’s challenges?
1 year, 10 months ago

World Menstrual Hygiene Day 2023: What are India’s challenges?

The Hindu  

May 28, 2023 10:30 am | Updated 05:37 pm IST There has been an uptick in the last few years in the focus on menstrual health and hygiene worldwide. In India, MHH gained its rightful place in the public health discourse when the National Health Mission 2011 promoted a menstrual hygiene scheme among adolescent girls in rural areas. Menstrual hygiene …

City-wide inclusive sanitation: Why it is pathway to scaling sustainable and safe sanitation systems
2 years, 1 month ago

City-wide inclusive sanitation: Why it is pathway to scaling sustainable and safe sanitation systems

Firstpost  

Universal access to safely managed sanitation is a human right. Enabling equitable and sustainable service delivery for urban poor communities Ensuring toilet access and improving sanitation services for low-income communities emerged as a priority in Trichy. Customised first-aid training for sanitation workers and DSOs, including sensitisation sessions on the safe disposal of fecal sludge, were also conducted to build capacity …

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 …

Fighting for dignity of women: Meet sanitation crusader Asma Parveen
3 years, 1 month ago

Fighting for dignity of women: Meet sanitation crusader Asma Parveen

News 18  

Water, sanitation and hygiene practice is important to everyone for their health and wellbeing. This prompted Asma Parveen, a resident of the same village, to realise the vital role of a toilet in maintaining a woman’s dignity and respect. In April 2012, Priyanka left her in-laws’ house in Maharajganj district of Uttar Pradesh as there was no household toilet and …

Menstrual Hygiene Management: Why access to safe sanitation is vital
3 years, 2 months ago

Menstrual Hygiene Management: Why access to safe sanitation is vital

News 18  

Menstrual hygiene is important for the health of women and girls. Despite the massive success of the Central government’s flagship Swachh Bharat Mission programme in providing access to toilets, menstrual hygiene remains a major issue in some parts of the country, specifically in rural areas. Menstrual hygiene management needs the toilets to have facilities to change pads in privacy, availability …

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 …

Akshay Kumar at Mission Paani: Many Places Still Face Lack of Clean Toilets, Every Citizen Should Take Responsibility
3 years, 4 months ago

Akshay Kumar at Mission Paani: Many Places Still Face Lack of Clean Toilets, Every Citizen Should Take Responsibility

News 18  

Bollywood superstar and brand ambassador of the Mission Paani event, Akshay Kumar said developing nations like India still have many areas where women suffer due to lack of clean water and proper toilets. Talking about the difficulty women face due to the lack of these essential services, Akshay Kumar recalled working on his film on a similar issue, Toilet ek …

Mission Paani's Pledge & Preamble Aims to Leave No One Behind on Journey Towards Sustainable Sanitation
3 years, 4 months ago

Mission Paani's Pledge & Preamble Aims to Leave No One Behind on Journey Towards Sustainable Sanitation

News 18  

To strive for a cleaner and healthier world while protecting ourselves and others from disease are among the initiatives of the revolutionary Mission Paani pledge to uphold India’s first-ever Preamble to ensure sustainable sanitation for all citizens. As the world observes World Toilet Day on Friday, the Mission Paani initiative by Network18 and Reckitt will inspire action towards better sanitation …

Why gender inclusion is important to achieve sustainable sanitation outcomes
3 years, 5 months ago

Why gender inclusion is important to achieve sustainable sanitation outcomes

Firstpost  

Recognising the direct impact of improved sanitation on the lives of people, the role of communities, especially the most marginalised sections, in planning, implementing, and evaluating schemes holds utmost importance India’s journey has been absolutely remarkable with cities becoming open defecation free and adopting sustainable sanitation practices to combat environmental pollution for improving health benefits to the community. Additionally ensuring …

World Toilet Day 2019: PM Modi applauds nation's efforts towards sanitation
5 years, 4 months ago

World Toilet Day 2019: PM Modi applauds nation's efforts towards sanitation

India TV News  

PM Narendra Modi's personal website and app's Twitter handle celebrate India's extraordinary feat of work in sanitation. November 19 has been marked as the World's toilet day United Nations to inspire action to tackle the global sanitation day. The tweet read, "Today is #WorldToiletDay, a day to remember India’s feats in the domain of safe sanitation that has made it …

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; …

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. …

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. …

'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 …

Open Defecation And Violence Against Women: Socio-Legal Perspective
6 years, 9 months ago

Open Defecation And Violence Against Women: Socio-Legal Perspective

Live Law  

In spite of all kind of development, the practice of open defecation is widespread in India. The problem of open defecation, poor sanitation, and public health are important governance issues in a developing country like India for ensuring human development index. The problem of open defecation The problem of sanitation is still most unaddressed development challenges, which depicts sad picture …

International Menstrual Hygiene Day: To progress, India must end culture of shame and silence, writes Shabana Azmi
6 years, 10 months ago

International Menstrual Hygiene Day: To progress, India must end culture of shame and silence, writes Shabana Azmi

Firstpost  

India is a land of contradictions and in no sphere is this more evident than in the status of women. Nowhere is this truer than in menstrual health, with as many as 82 percent of women continuing to use unsanitary means to manage their periods. The culture of silence and shame associated with menstruation has held women back because of …

Is India suffering from ‘period poverty’?
6 years, 10 months ago

Is India suffering from ‘period poverty’?

The Hindu  

A new report published by UNICEF and WaterAid found that more than a third of girls in South Asia miss school during their periods, mainly due to lack of access to toilets and pads in schools and no proper education about menstruation. ‘Period poverty’ is the term used when there is a lack of sanitary products, and other essentials like …

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 …

It's time to break the silence around menstruation, continue dialogue on sustainable disposal of sanitary waste
7 years, 11 months ago

It's time to break the silence around menstruation, continue dialogue on sustainable disposal of sanitary waste

Firstpost  

Isn’t it ridiculous how there are endless euphemisms for menstruation? While the dialogue on period taboo and breaking the silence around it is crucial, measures for sustainable disposal of sanitary waste cannot be excluded from these conversations. Shradha Shreejaya, an ecologist with the Kerala-based NGO Thanal, who is also part of the Sustainable Menstruation Collective in Kerala says that sanitary …

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 …

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 …

Clean India campaign is Delhi’s best chance to make waste recycling compulsory
10 years, 5 months ago

Clean India campaign is Delhi’s best chance to make waste recycling compulsory

Hindustan Times  

Mundane civic issues like cleanliness in public spaces rarely go national. Even the otherwise inert civic agencies have launched an extended drive to clean the streets, drains, public toilets and parks across Delhi. The ongoing Clean India drive should have come with a plan to reduce the quantity of waste going into the landfills. So now, stuffing everything from kitchen …

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