Who's India's Real Enemy? Is it Pakistan?

[RiazHaq]

Poor Sanitation in India May Afflict Well-Fed Children With Malnutrition

So why is Vivek malnourished?

It is a question being asked about children across India, where a long economic boom has done little to reduce the vast number of children who are malnourished and stunted, leaving them with mental and physical deficits that will haunt them their entire lives. Now, an emerging body of scientific studies suggest that Vivek and many of the 162 million other children under the age of 5 in the world who are malnourished are suffering less a lack of food than poor sanitation.

Like almost everyone else in their village, Vivek and his family have no toilet, and the district where they live has the highest concentration of people who defecate outdoors. As a result, children are exposed to a bacterial brew that often sickens them, leaving them unable to attain a healthy body weight no matter how much food they eat.

“These children’s bodies divert energy and nutrients away from growth and brain development to prioritize infection-fighting survival,” said Jean Humphrey, a professor of human nutrition at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “When this happens during the first two years of life, children become stunted. What’s particularly disturbing is that the lost height and intelligence are permanent.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/15/w...well-fed-children-with-malnutrition.html?_r=0

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

According to the previous Indian defense minister George Fernandes, "China is India's number 1 enemy".

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

and he is absolutely right. China is our no. 1 enemy.

So why are you crying so much about Pakistan? You know exactly where we are, we are waiting for your Forward Policy v2.0.

 

[Bobby]

Pakistan is so rich...India is so poor..
everybody go to Pakistan..nobody bother to come to India
Pakistan is growing faster than China....India is crawling and struggling to grow
Pakistan has no load shedding....Indian industry gone to dust due to excessive load shedding
Pakistan got world leader like Sharif....India got Modi

 

[GURU DUTT]

Poor Sanitation in India May Afflict Well-Fed Children With Malnutrition

So why is Vivek malnourished?

It is a question being asked about children across India, where a long economic boom has done little to reduce the vast number of children who are malnourished and stunted, leaving them with mental and physical deficits that will haunt them their entire lives. Now, an emerging body of scientific studies suggest that Vivek and many of the 162 million other children under the age of 5 in the world who are malnourished are suffering less a lack of food than poor sanitation.

Like almost everyone else in their village, Vivek and his family have no toilet, and the district where they live has the highest concentration of people who defecate outdoors. As a result, children are exposed to a bacterial brew that often sickens them, leaving them unable to attain a healthy body weight no matter how much food they eat.

“These children’s bodies divert energy and nutrients away from growth and brain development to prioritize infection-fighting survival,” said Jean Humphrey, a professor of human nutrition at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “When this happens during the first two years of life, children become stunted. What’s particularly disturbing is that the lost height and intelligence are permanent.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/15/w...well-fed-children-with-malnutrition.html?_r=0

salaam chachha sab kahiriat se to hai na

sunna hai apke watan e azeez me dhoodh aur shehed ki nehre beh rahi hain , jahan kabhi batti nahi jaati aur har insaan ko rozgaar ,achee / umda taleem & sehat hasil hai jisse dekh USA tak apki economy se rashk kerta hai

per bade miya apka watan e aziz hai kaun sa pakistan ya canada

 

[RiazHaq]

• By
  
• build toilets than temples and setting a goal for every home in the country to have a place to go to the bathroom by 2019.
  
  But new data show India is lagging behind its neighbors in providing access to adequate sanitation.
  
  “Progress on Sanitation and Drinking Water,” a report published by the United Nations Children’s Fund and the World Health Organization this week, says that advancements in meeting Millennium Development Goals, or MDGs, by 2015 in relation to sanitation have faltered worldwide. The report says 2.4 billion people still don’t have access to improved sanitation.

Mr. Modi launched his Clean India, or Swachh Bharat, campaign last year for good reason. Research shows that the practice of open defecation is linked to a higher risk of stunting in children and the spread of disease. A World Health Organization report said in 2014 that 597 million people in India still relieved themselves outdoors. And the new WHO/Unicef report says that the Southern Asia region has the highest number of people who defecate in the open.

The new data show that despite recent efforts, over the past 25 years, India has been losing the regional race to improve sanitation.

Its neighbors, Nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan led the way with the greatest percentage-point change in the proportion of the population with access to improved sanitation facilities between 1990 and 2015.

Pakistan’s percentage point change was 40–64% of people have use an improved sanitation facility. In Nepal, a country in which just 4% of people had access to improved sanitation facilities in 1990, access rose by 42 percentage points to 46%. Bangladesh improved its score by 27 percentage points — 61% now have access to improved sanitation facilities.

India meanwhile, had a lower 23 percentage point increase in the same period – bringing the number of people with access to improved sanitation facilities to 40%.

And Sri Lanka is way ahead, with 95% of people having access to improved sanitation.

The report defines an improved sanitation facility as one that hygienically separates excreta from human contact and the target was for 50% or more of those with inadequate water or sanitation in 1990 to have adequate sanitary services in 2015.

Likewise, rates of open defecation have reduced, but India still has the highest percentage of the population defecating in the open–with 44% of people going outside in 2015—down from 75% in 1990, compared with a 13% figure for Pakistan in 2015, 32% for Nepal and only 1% for Bangladesh.

But, the report says: “The 31 per cent reduction in open defecation in India alone represents 394 million people, and significantly influences regional and global estimates.”


India Lags Behind Pakistan, Nepal on Sanitation - India Real Time - WSJ

 

[vinay]

• By
  
• build toilets than temples and setting a goal for every home in the country to have a place to go to the bathroom by 2019.
  
  But new data show India is lagging behind its neighbors in providing access to adequate sanitation.
  
  “Progress on Sanitation and Drinking Water,” a report published by the United Nations Children’s Fund and the World Health Organization this week, says that advancements in meeting Millennium Development Goals, or MDGs, by 2015 in relation to sanitation have faltered worldwide. The report says 2.4 billion people still don’t have access to improved sanitation.

Mr. Modi launched his Clean India, or Swachh Bharat, campaign last year for good reason. Research shows that the practice of open defecation is linked to a higher risk of stunting in children and the spread of disease. A World Health Organization report said in 2014 that 597 million people in India still relieved themselves outdoors. And the new WHO/Unicef report says that the Southern Asia region has the highest number of people who defecate in the open.

The new data show that despite recent efforts, over the past 25 years, India has been losing the regional race to improve sanitation.

Its neighbors, Nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan led the way with the greatest percentage-point change in the proportion of the population with access to improved sanitation facilities between 1990 and 2015.

Pakistan’s percentage point change was 40–64% of people have use an improved sanitation facility. In Nepal, a country in which just 4% of people had access to improved sanitation facilities in 1990, access rose by 42 percentage points to 46%. Bangladesh improved its score by 27 percentage points — 61% now have access to improved sanitation facilities.

India meanwhile, had a lower 23 percentage point increase in the same period – bringing the number of people with access to improved sanitation facilities to 40%.

And Sri Lanka is way ahead, with 95% of people having access to improved sanitation.

The report defines an improved sanitation facility as one that hygienically separates excreta from human contact and the target was for 50% or more of those with inadequate water or sanitation in 1990 to have adequate sanitary services in 2015.

Likewise, rates of open defecation have reduced, but India still has the highest percentage of the population defecating in the open–with 44% of people going outside in 2015—down from 75% in 1990, compared with a 13% figure for Pakistan in 2015, 32% for Nepal and only 1% for Bangladesh.

But, the report says: “The 31 per cent reduction in open defecation in India alone represents 394 million people, and significantly influences regional and global estimates.”


India Lags Behind Pakistan, Nepal on Sanitation - India Real Time - WSJ

Sirji
This thread is about who is Indias real enemy and you are posting about lack of toilets here. Do u think malnourishment or lack of toilet is Indias real enemy? I didn't understand you.What are you trying to say?

 

[RiazHaq]

Sirji
This thread is about who is Indias real enemy and you are posting about lack of toilets here. Do u think malnourishment or lack of toilet is Indias real enemy? I didn't understand you.What are you trying to say?

Lack of toilets kills many more Indians than any other "enemy" given the heavy disease burdens it imposes.

Haq's Musings: World Health Day in Pakistan: Premature Death Rate Declines Amidst Rising Violence

 

[Icewolf]

• By
  
• build toilets than temples and setting a goal for every home in the country to have a place to go to the bathroom by 2019.
  
  But new data show India is lagging behind its neighbors in providing access to adequate sanitation.
  
  “Progress on Sanitation and Drinking Water,” a report published by the United Nations Children’s Fund and the World Health Organization this week, says that advancements in meeting Millennium Development Goals, or MDGs, by 2015 in relation to sanitation have faltered worldwide. The report says 2.4 billion people still don’t have access to improved sanitation.

Mr. Modi launched his Clean India, or Swachh Bharat, campaign last year for good reason. Research shows that the practice of open defecation is linked to a higher risk of stunting in children and the spread of disease. A World Health Organization report said in 2014 that 597 million people in India still relieved themselves outdoors. And the new WHO/Unicef report says that the Southern Asia region has the highest number of people who defecate in the open.

The new data show that despite recent efforts, over the past 25 years, India has been losing the regional race to improve sanitation.

Its neighbors, Nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan led the way with the greatest percentage-point change in the proportion of the population with access to improved sanitation facilities between 1990 and 2015.

Pakistan’s percentage point change was 40–64% of people have use an improved sanitation facility. In Nepal, a country in which just 4% of people had access to improved sanitation facilities in 1990, access rose by 42 percentage points to 46%. Bangladesh improved its score by 27 percentage points — 61% now have access to improved sanitation facilities.

India meanwhile, had a lower 23 percentage point increase in the same period – bringing the number of people with access to improved sanitation facilities to 40%.

And Sri Lanka is way ahead, with 95% of people having access to improved sanitation.

The report defines an improved sanitation facility as one that hygienically separates excreta from human contact and the target was for 50% or more of those with inadequate water or sanitation in 1990 to have adequate sanitary services in 2015.

Likewise, rates of open defecation have reduced, but India still has the highest percentage of the population defecating in the open–with 44% of people going outside in 2015—down from 75% in 1990, compared with a 13% figure for Pakistan in 2015, 32% for Nepal and only 1% for Bangladesh.

But, the report says: “The 31 per cent reduction in open defecation in India alone represents 394 million people, and significantly influences regional and global estimates.”


India Lags Behind Pakistan, Nepal on Sanitation - India Real Time - WSJ

They will spend billions of defence but don't even have toilet wow....

Indians are cash cow for the west basically.... Supa pawa without toilets

 

[Spectre]

They will spend billions of defence but don't even have toilet wow....

Indians are cash cow for the west basically.... Supa pawa without toilets

I agree but you have to go into the reasons for why India spends billions on defense. There is a mindset in India that Pakistan will always try to take back Kashmir and we have a elephant or rather dragon China as a neighbor too with whom we don't have best of equations and have disputed territory.

 

[Maira La]

@RiazHaq

The fact is that MODI irritates ; annoys ; angers and disturbs Pakistan
in a manner in which NO other Indian leader has ever done

But does that help get rid of the open defecation epidemic? No wonder PDF East Asians make fun of Indian IQ. Don't embarrass us fellow desis any further!

 

[livingdead]

But does that help get rid of the open defecation epidemic? No wonder PDF East Asians make fun of Indian IQ. Don't embarrass us fellow desis any further!

Modi is possibly only PM in India who openly talks of cleanliness.. and puts it at high priority. His baiting pakistan does not affect his commitment to cleanliness drive, I think.