Lol!!! the Guardian Keeps coming with India/Pakistan/Bangladesh reports showing each country in the worst light...it is like since these countries got independence from the colonial Britishers, they are in a mess...It was all due to the super smart Britishers that the conditions was perfect in Sub Continent earlier.
Now Pakistan/India/BD cannot manage the state of affairs...thought like these. Still living in delusions of grandeur these Britishers.
India’s poor sanitation is damaging millions of children. There’s no excuse
Rose George
With a huge middle class and a resurgent economy, the conditions that have left 50 million children with stunted growth aren’t just unfair – they’re eminently fixable
Earlier this year, in a sweltering classroom in Delhi, I met a young Indian boy named Ram. His father is a watchman in a government apartment block, and the family live in the building’s garage. But there is no toilet, so Ram, a small, whipsmart and endearingly cheeky boy, must cross two busy highways to get to the overcrowded public toilet in a nearby slum.
Obviously, rather than risk this, Ram and his siblings sometimes do their business in the open near the apartment block, making him one of India’s
564 million people who practise open defecation. Because of this, Ram told me: “They’re throwing us out.” I asked where his family will live instead and he just shrugged.
Ram is an example of the idea that children can be active citizens. They earn this right because they can teach us adults things we have forgotten, as with a child’s most common lament: “That’s not fair!” They are right: it has been 25 years since India launched itself on to the path of structural adjustment, and despite media focus on its
growth, triumphs and
controversial prime minister Narendra Modi, it’s not just Ram who should be saying that there is too much about modern India that is not fair.
Modern India has a massive middle class (the third largest in the world after China and the US), economic growth that makes market economists salivate and the
third largest number of billionaires. It also has 250 million people with zero assets. Not even a radio. And, as
Caught Short, a new report by WaterAid reveals, it has more stunted children than any other country. Nearly
50 million Indian children are stunted, including Ram. Probably because, like millions of other Indian toddlers, he was constantly exposed to disease carried by faecal particles he encountered when going to the toilet wherever he could.
https://www.theguardian.com/comment...unted-growth-unsanitary-conditions-50-million
