Toilet for all by 2019, can India reach there?
Journal Title: National Journal of Research in Community Medicine - Year 2017, Vol 6, Issue 4
Abstract
Let us assess the causes for such unhealthy practices. First is Indian mindset. Open defecation is a many century old tradition. Water sealed toilet in a western invention brought to us by British. One recent survey shows that many rich farmers of rural Uttar Pradesh, Haryana & Punjab prefer open defecation in spite of having household toilet. Many people enjoy morning breeze & openness of nature in the process than that of a closed room. At the same time, multiple government schemes have given incentives to construct household toilets. Another practical problem for big part of rural India is majority of household do not have sufficient amount of water for cleaning, flushing the toilet. Dry toilet is still in practice with shameful act of manual scavenging. So, dry toilet can never be the option to eradicate open defecation. Then what is the answer to this shameful state of public health?
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Purushottam A. Giri
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