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Tag: Social Accountability
Congress exposes ‘sach’ of Centre’s Swachh Bharat campaign
Only one out of eight ODF verified villages in three states of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh was ODF while a survey by the Centre for Policy Research found that only one out of 8 verified ODF gram panchayats in Udaipur was actually ODF.
Why Households Are Being Excluded From Modi’s Swachh Bharat Scheme
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.
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.
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.
Where has the social sector money gone?
This year’s budget was to focus on “strengthening agriculture and rural economy, provision of good healthcare to economically less privileged, taking care of senior citizens, infrastructure creation and improving the quality of education in the country”.
How A ‘Pro-Poor’ Budget Downplays Programmes That Fund The Poor
Budget speeches are all about messaging. While we all speculated on what the budget will hold for the social sector, many of us, got it wrong.
Budget 2018: Beyond pink covers for Economic Survey, little on offer for women, say experts
Budget 2018: The only major announcement is reduction of women employees’ PF contribution to 8% for first three years of their employment against existing rate of 12% or 10% with no change in employers’ contribution.
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.
Gorakhpur tragedy a reminder of all that ails India’s public funds management
For years, red tape has meant that departments have failed to secure and utilise all of their funding, which has often led to critical work being affected.