India's Toilet Shortage Costs More Than $50 Billion, Study Says

[Brotherhood]

What can you do when 650 million people refused to use "toilets" even they will get pay for it?

MUMBAI, India — The Mumbai slum of Rafiq Nagar has no clean water for its shacks made of ripped tarp and bamboo. No garbage pickup along the rocky, pocked earth that serves as a road. No power except from haphazard cables strung overhead illegally.

And not a single toilet or latrine for its 10,000 people.

Yet nearly every destitute family in the slum has a cell phone. Some have three.

When U.S. President Barack Obama visits India Nov. 6, he will find a country of startlingly uneven development and perplexing disparities, where more people have cell phones than access to a toilet, according to the United Nations.

It is a country buoyed by a vibrant business world of call centers and software developers, but hamstrung by a bloated, corrupt government that has failed to deliver the barest of services.

Its estimated growth rate of 8.5 percent a year is among the highest in the world, but its roads are crumbling.

It offers cheap, world-class medical care to Western tourists at private hospitals, yet has some of the worst child mortality and maternal death rates outside sub-Saharan Africa.

And while tens of millions have benefited from India's rise, many more remain mired in some of the worst poverty in the world.

Businessman Mukesh Ambani, the world's fourth-richest person, is just finishing off a new $1 billion skyscraper-house in Mumbai with 27 floors and three helipads, touted as the most expensive home on earth. Yet farmers still live in shacks of mud and cow dung.
India: Toilets Are Scarce, And Highly Desirable

 

[arihant]

That is sad part I guess.

 

[Yeti]

Been posted mods please merge the Threads thanks in advance.

 

[Yeti]

Aughh that's disgusting, my uncle went to India on a business trip 2 years ago, he was on metro heading to New Delhi told me he saw people going to corporate buildings have suites and attire on, just squat in the middle of street took a dump and they were still doing paper work.. LOLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!

Think yr uncle is telling you porkie pies mate, anyone who works in a office and is a white collar worker and being middle class would not need to do his business in the street especially when offices have toilets!

 

[CardSharp]

i don't understand. Why can't people make their own toilets???? U don't need to be a genius to do it

You need to build underground sewers and install plumbing for wet toilets and that is no simple matter. You would need to rip up roads dig around existing structures and you need central planning.

I really hope India eliminate the use of dry toilets, it is still overwhelmingly the Dalit class that is doing demeaning work of emptying human waste everyday. No one should be forced to do work that robs them of their dignity.

 

[Fasih Khan]

So much of a ''Super Power''

PATHETIC

 

[newdelhinsa]

You need to build underground sewers and install plumbing for wet toilets and that is no simple matter. You would need to rip up roads dig around existing structures and you need central planning.

I really hope India eliminate the use of dry toilets, it is still overwhelmingly the Dalit class that is doing demeaning work of emptying human waste everyday. No one should be forced to do work that robs them of their dignity.

I agree with your first paragraph but your second para! i can tell you that you know nothing. Its not that simplistic or white or black. But the way you have been posting for last one month i can say, it matches your consistency, i am not surprised. Its A mix of sanity and bias. You are playing safe, you were better at the start though.

 

[CardSharp]

I agree with your first paragraph but your second para! i can tell you that you know nothing. Its not that simplistic or white or black. But the way you have been posting for last one month i can say, it matches your consistency, i am not surprised. Its A mix of sanity and bias. You are playing safe, you were better at the start though.

My views are consistant within themselves, so it's probably time to take a deep hard look at your own Indian views. By and by they JUST had a report on this on BBC world news ("free media right?"). Despite fallacious Indian government claims of how Dalits are no longer forced to such jobs, they are overwhelmingly representative of those who have no other options but to clean dry toilets. It was just about the saddest thing I saw in a while.

 

[newdelhinsa]

My views are consistant within themselves, so it's probably time to take a deep hard look at your own Indian views. By and by they JUST had a report on this on BBC world news ("free media right?"). Despite fallacious Indian government claims of how Dalits are no longer forced to such jobs, they are overwhelmingly representative of those who have no other options but to clean dry toilets. It was just about the saddest thing I saw in a while.

A first hand information will be still better and more revealing then BBC or your own twist.

 

[CardSharp]

A first hand information will be still better and more revealing then BBC or your own twist.

How is my believing the BBC any different than how Indians believe BBC reporting about China. Yet this NEVER stops Indians from posting whatever they like in the China subforum.

 

[Kyusuibu Honbu]

My views are consistant within themselves, so it's probably time to take a deep hard look at your own Indian views. By and by they JUST had a report on this on BBC world news ("free media right?"). Despite fallacious Indian government claims of how Dalits are no longer forced to such jobs, they are overwhelmingly representative of those who have no other options but to clean dry toilets. It was just about the saddest thing I saw in a while.

Can you share the link about the report.

 

[CardSharp]

Can you share the link about the report.

Channel 37 on Rogers cable, BBC 24/7world news saw it about a 3 weeks back?

here's something along the same lines.

BBC News - India toilet cleaners stage protest over conditions

I don't know why you'd doubt such reporting.


India toilet cleaners stage protest over conditions

Hundreds of Indian workers employed to manually clean non-flush toilets have protested in Delhi against their working conditions.

They say that the authorities have failed to act despite declaring such work illegal, and should issue an apology for decades of discrimination.

Government figures suggest that about 300,000 low-caste Dalits are still employed in such work.

They are estimated on average to earn less than $4 (£2.50) a month.

The demonstrators began their protests a month ago by criss-crossing the country to highlight their demands.

Manual "scavenging" - removing human excreta from dry or non-flush toilets - is a centuries-old practice in India.

It is mainly carried out by the Dalits, formerly known as the untouchables, who are at the lowest rung of the Hindu caste system.

They go from house to house every morning to collect night soil, a euphemism for human faeces.

Although manual scavenging is prohibited by law, some government departments still have such workers. These include the railways ministry, which employs people to clean railway tracks as most trains have open-discharge toilets.

Government figures show there are more than 300,000 manual scavengers in India, but unofficial estimates put the number at more than one million.

The organisers of the protest say they want the government to completely eradicate the practice and rehabilitate those engaged in it.

They say that there will be a countrywide protest from November if the government fails to meet their demands

 

[twoplustwoisfour]

So much of a ''Super Power''

PATHETIC

I'd rather voluntarily **** in the open than have someone point a gun on my head and cause me to **** my pants.

Just saying.

 

[lcloo]

Do Indian local authorities and city boards/mayors have master plan for city/town planning that include modern sewage disposals and drainage systems?

If they have such master plan, what are the problems in implemanting efficient sewage disposals and drainage plans?

Indian's economy is getting stronger year by year, I am sure budget is not the problem. Is land acquisition the obstacle?

 

[Yeti]

Do Indian local authorities and city boards/mayors have master plan for city/town planning that include modern sewage disposals and drainage systems?

If they have such master plan, what are the problems in implemanting efficient sewage disposals and drainage plans?

Indian's economy is getting stronger year by year, I am sure budget is not the problem. Is land acquisition the obstacle?

Plans are there as is the money but the implementation due to bureaucracy and corruption is the main hurdles for India.