Ideally, we should have stronger monitoring and verifications on a regular basis. We wouldn’t need to keep having costly one-time mapping exercises as the mapping can be done by GPS regularly and then verified by the block sanitation coordinators.
Tag: Sanitation
Why we still need to measure open defecation in rural India
In this post, Srivastav and Hathi contend that while the recently released National Annual Rural Sanitation Survey data seem to show that open defecation is being eliminated from rural India, this conclusion is unfortunately premature.
Swachh Bharat: A Tale Of Disappearing Toilets, Vanishing Data
Swachh Bharat rural has at least twice taken data off its dashboard, including data related to release & spending of funds, conversion of insanitary toilets which foster manual scavenging, and several details of toilet construction.
Toilet Owners Defecate In Open In Villages Declared Open-Defecation Free: Rajasthan Study
With a little more than a year to go for Swachh Bharat Mission’s deadline of open-defecation-free India, patchy access to toilets, incomplete toilet construction and rampant open defecation among households with a toilet were some findings of a new study in gram panchayats (village councils) declared open defecation-free (ODF) in Rajasthan.
Manual scavenging: A road with no end
There are significant differences in the number of manual scavengers identified by the states and those identified in the Social Economic Caste Census (SECC) 2011
Why Poor Funding of Swachh Bharat Mission Since 2014 Has Put its Goals at Risk
While budgetary allocation has been hiked in the last two years, it’s still not nearly enough for the government to meet its 2019 goal.
Budget 2018: Stumbling towards sustainable sanitation
The challenge will be in ensuring that open defecation-free villages and cities are truly ODF, but more crucially that they remain so.
Budget 2018: Swachh Bharat Mission- A reality check
Swachh Bharat Mission is racing towards its target of achieving an Open Defecation Free India by 2019, constructing more than 2,000 toilets every hour; but will the gains from such increased coverage be sustainable?
[Video] Truth vs Hype Of Swachh Bharat
This week, one of the government’s signature schemes – the Swachh Bharat Mission – turns three years old. We examine the data and travel to the ground to investigate the claims of a scheme on which an estimated Rs. 50,000 crore have already been spent.
More toilet talk vital for a cleaner India
Meeting sanitation targets is important but targets alone won’t mean much unless the people buy into the messages behind the toilet talk.