Health Issues India

On World Toilet Day, United Nations figures on open defecation and toilets across the world should ring alarm bells. Four billion people still lack access to basic sanitation facilities. Each day, nearly a thousand children are dying due to preventable water and sanitation-related diarrhoeal diseases. What's the situation in India? "Four years since Swachh Bharat's launch, what difference has it made to India's sanitation indicators?" When the BJP came to power in 2014, it was partly on the promise of cleaning up India. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s flagship Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (‘Clean India Mission’) began life with much grandiosity. Four years since Swachh Bharat's launch, what difference has it made to India's sanitation indicators? Swachh Bharat was launched with the goal of eliminating the widespread practise of open defecation within five years of its launch. It aimed to do this by constructing toilets to expand sanitation coverage. Since the scheme was launched, … Read Full Article about World Toilet Day: A review of India’s toilets and Swachh Bharat