Maharashtra govt to build 56 lakh toilets

[ranjeet]

Aap yeh bhi bataey kay pandra say bees billion dollars raflae par bhi to karch ho rahain hay. You criticize India building toilets to meet a urgent of the population need while support the $15-20 billion dollars on Rafales. Toilet money is spend in India while much of Rafale money will go to France.

I agree India must cancel every defence deal.

 

[East or West India Best]

Pakistan also needs to build public toilets in cities, towns and villages. We need better sanitation to avoid child mortality and diseases.

We South Asians are a greedy lot. If it costs money, even if it better our and others' lives, we will be against it.

Why India is spending crores of rupees on toilets when more than 60% of their people die of hunger. Khilana kuch hai nahi upar se Modi pet khaali karne ke liye jagah aur banwa raha hai.

Where does that food go once you eat it?

 

[SarthakGanguly]

Edit: I looked it up and it's in Malaysia not India.

The first one is in Malaysia. But will post something tomorrow. Stay tuned.

 

[Abingdonboy]

Yes quite sure , Hope to get more pictures.

Work is going on with full swing.

Report Card status of Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) as on 4 /4/2015 State:- TELANGANA

Constructed
School Toilets 44460 out of 48268
Sanitary Complex 47 out of 53
Anganwadi Toilets 5527 out of 6176

Report Card status of Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) as on 4 /4/2015 State:- ANDHRA PRADESH

School Toilets 71448 out of 73140
Sanitary Complex 522 out of 954
Anganwadi Toilets 6273 out of 8814.

Nice work mate, can you give similar report cards for other cities/states?

Aap yeh bhi bataey kay pandra say bees billion dollars raflae par bhi to karch ho rahain hay. You criticize India building toilets to meet a urgent of the population need while support the $15-20 billion dollars on Rafales. Toilet money is spend in India while much of Rafale money will go to France.

There i no link between defence deals and sanitation in India, stop trying to muddy the water.

 

[ArsalanKhan21]

I agree India must cancel every defence deal.

Aray bhai itna ghussa ! I meant the Rafale costs have gone up from$10 billion to $15 and some predict $20 billion. Just spend a billion on sanitation a year in India.

 

[Abingdonboy]

Just spend a billion on sanitation a year in India.

India spends more than $10 billion a year on sanitation, before you spout nonsense please do some basic research .

 

[Hindustani78]

Also, are you sure top picture is India? Looks too developed.

Edit: I looked it up and it's in Malaysia not India.

You mean that railway station toilets ?


(Modi-govt to launch a pilot project next month in 2,000 villages to ensure that toilets are actually built on the ground and not on paper.)

 

[ArsalanKhan21]

India spends more than $10 billion a year on sanitation, before you spout nonsense please do some basic research .

Any references to your claims.

 

[proud_indian]

Any references to your claims.

India’s sanitation campaigns have cost 40 times Mars mission budget

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India has spent over $3 billion on constructing toilets across the country since 1986.

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Since 1986, India has spent over $3 billion on constructing toilets across the country, figures from the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation show.

Despite such massive investments, India’s sanitation campaigns over the years have unfortunately yielded limited results. India continues to have the largest number of people who defecate in the open. Even poorer countries in the neighbourhood, such as Bangladesh and Nepal, have improved sanitation coverage faster and surpassed India in the last two decades – by all accounts, at a fraction of the cost.

The Indian government is now gearing up to spend an additional $31 billion (Rs.1.9 lakh crore) over the next five years through the Swachh Bharat mission.
But experts warn that it could turn into another money wasting exercise. “Just the name of the programme is being changed without bothering to change how it is implemented,” says Nitya Jacob of WaterAid.

100 million toilets
The Swachh Bharat mission would place overwhelming emphasis on constructing toilets, with plans afoot to build over a 100 million of them in rural areas alone in the next five years. But if prior experience is anything to go by, many of them would either not be built or not used. Unofficial studies like the SQUAT survey, which was done in five northern States, show that in at least 40 per cent of households with a newly built toilet, a member of the family was still defecating in the open. Cultural conditioning and tradition were some of the reasons for poor adoption, the survey found.

Despite strong evidence that shows constructing toilets alone is not enough, Swachh Bharat would carry forward the hardware-led solution that has been repeatedly tried by governments in the past.

Under the new programme, the allocation meant for changing behaviour and attitudes is actually being cut from the existing 15 per cent to 8 per cent, says Mr. Jacob. “The same practice of constructing toilets which nobody will use and nobody will want is going to continue,” he says.

Big spenders
Contrary to expectation, the proposal also makes no allocation for post-implementation audit, Mr.Jacob says. “The government doesn’t seem to have learnt anything from the previous 30 years of dysfunctional investment.”

Government figures claim that over 97 million household toilets were constructed using public money since 2001 alone. A further nine million were constructed under the Central Rural Sanitation Program that ran from 1986 to 1999.

States such as Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Bihar, which have the worst sanitation indicators, also spent the most amount of money over the last 15 years. Uttar Pradesh alone accounted for nearly a fifth of all the money that was spent on this count since 2001. The State was one of the few that consistently managed to spend over 90 per cent of the allocated money every year.

“Constructing toilets has become a business,” says Kamal Kar of the Community-led Total Sanitation initiative. He points to Nepal and Bangladesh, which have had a measure of success without spending so much money, as better models.

People’s choice
In both countries, people were allowed to choose the toilet technology that works for them, instead of a government committee deciding it on their behalf. Latrine reviews in the house of a prospective spouse became common, women were included in the community committees that decided the type and location of toilets, and social pressure from school children was used to transform families. Toilet construction was a minor part of the whole programme.

That is why, Mr.Kar says, the Indian government should stop counting the latrines it builds and start counting the reduction in hospital visits. “States with the worst outcomes spending the most money is unacceptable.”

 

[Hindustani78]

New Delhi | Mar 09, 2015


Nearly 30 lakh individual household latrines have been constructed so far as part of the Swachh Bharat Mission, the cleanliness drive which was launched in October last year by the NDA government, Rajya Sabha was informed today.

In a written reply to the Upper House, Minister of State for Drinking Water and Sanitation, Ram Kripal Yadav, said that 29,74,455 individual household latrines have been constructed up to March 4 this year after the launch of Swachh Bharat Mission (Gramin) on October 2 to coincide with the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.

About Rs 1,157.52 crore central share has been spent as reported on online monitoring system maintained by the ministry, he added.

Responding to another question, the minister said that the Swachh Bharat Mission (Gramin) aims to accelerate sanitation coverage in the country so as to realise by 2019 its goal of 'Swachh Bharat' by providing access to toilet facilities in all rural households and taking up solid and liquid waste management activities in gram panchayats.

 

[Echo_419]

Odisha leads in building community toilets, Gujarat in household segment | Zee News
Last Updated: Friday, April 3, 2015 - 13:43

New Delhi: Odisha is the leader in construction of community toilets while Gujarat is ahead of other states in building of household toilets, according to the Urban Development Ministry data.


As per the data, 2,70,069 household toilets were constructed across the country during the last financial year, out of which Gujarat accounted for 60 per cent with 1,65,376 toilets.
Madhya Pradesh constructed 99,151 household toilets followed by Karnataka with 4,697, the data says.

In the segment of community toilets, a total of 1,222 seats were built during 2014-15. Odisha was ahead of others, having constructed 740 seats. Andaman & Nicobar Islands reported construction of 200 and Karnataka has built 100 community toilet seats.

In promoting solid waste management, Gujarat led others having reported 100 per cent collection and transportation of municipal solid waste in 120 of the 195 towns in the state. Odisha has done so in respect of 107 towns and Karnataka in 40 towns.

In all, 329 of the 4,041 statutory towns have reported 100 per cent collection and transportation of municipal solid waste.

The Central government had launched 'Swachh Bharat Mission' on October 2, 2014 with the objective of ensuring cleanliness in all the 4,041 statutory cities and towns of the country by October 2, 2019 which marks the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.

The five-year Swachh Bharat Mission is to be implemented at a total cost of Rs 62,009 cr with a targeted construction of 1.04 cr household toilets, 2.51 lakh community toilet seats and 2.55 lakh public toilet seats besides assisting 37 cr urban people in solid waste management.

Construction of toilets is accorded priority under the Mission to enable "open defecation free" urban areas.

During 2014-15, a total of about Rs 900 cr has been sanctioned by the ministry and an amount of about Rs 700 cr has been released to States/UTs based on proposals received under Swachh Bharat Mission.

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Communal Gujarat & MP are leading the way while secular Karnataka is nowhere to be seen
@magudi

Yes quite sure , Hope to get more pictures.

Work is going on with full swing.

Report Card status of Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) as on 4 /4/2015 State:- TELANGANA

Constructed
School Toilets 44460 out of 48268
Sanitary Complex 47 out of 53
Anganwadi Toilets 5527 out of 6176

Report Card status of Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) as on 4 /4/2015 State:- ANDHRA PRADESH

School Toilets 71448 out of 73140
Sanitary Complex 522 out of 954
Anganwadi Toilets 6273 out of 8814.

Both states are fighting neck to neck in this thing

 

[Hindustani78]

Communal Gujarat & MP are leading the way while secular Karnataka is nowhere to be seen

Report Card status of Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) as on 4 /4/2015 State:- KARNATAKA


School Toilets 39267 out of 46111
Sanitary Complex 1165 out of 1305
Anganwadi Toilets 26353 out of 31442

 

[Echo_419]

Aap yeh bhi bataey kay pandra say bees billion dollars raflae par bhi to karch ho rahain hay. You criticize India building toilets to meet a urgent of the population need while support the $15-20 billion dollars on Rafales. Toilet money is spend in India while much of Rafale money will go to France.

We have declared war on Toilets
Toilets MURDABAD

 

[my2cents]

Report Card status of Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) as on 4 /4/2015 State:- KARNATAKA


School Toilets 39267 out of 46111
Sanitary Complex 1165 out of 1305
Anganwadi Toilets 26353 out of 31442

Do the beneficiaries also contribute for construction of toilets?? If so, what percentage??

 

[Hindustani78]

Do the beneficiaries also contribute for construction of toilets?? If so, what percentage??

Nationwide Monitoring of use of Toilets will be launched from January, 2015
A provision of incentives for the construction of Individual household latrine (IHHL) of Rs.12000, including central share of Rs.9000.00 (Rs. 10800.00 in case of special category states) and State share of Rs. 3000.00 (Rs. 1200.00 in case of special category states) to all BPL households and to identified Above Poverty Line (APL) households(all SCs /STs, small and marginal farmers, landless labourers with homestead, physically handicapped and women-headed households).

· Construction of Community Sanitary Complexes(Upto 2 lakh per Community Sanitary Complex). Sharing pattern will be 60:30:10 (Centre: State: Community)

· Assistance(Upto 50 lakh per district) to Production Centres of sanitary materials and Rural Sanitary Marts.

· Fund for Solid and Liquid Waste Management. A cap of Rs. 7/12/15/20 lakh to be applicable for Gram Panchayats having upto 150/300/500 more than 500 households on a Centre and State /GP sharing ratio of 75:25.

· Provision for IEC will be at 8% of total Project cost, with 3% to be utilised at the Central level and 5 % at State level

Provision for Administrative Cost will be 2% of the Project cost. Sharing pattern will be 75:25 between Centre and State.