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SIM-card for masses from Singapore: 'Love Thy Loo'

MUMBAI: Toilets in an Orissa village may not be the best place to spend your birthday in. But that's exactly what 50-year-old Jack Sim did this year on March 5. Known as Toiletman for promoting better sanitation across the world, Sim could not resist peeping into the country restrooms even as he was holidaying. And loo behold, the picture wasn’t pretty. "India has been exotic. although the toilets I don’t enjoy," Sim says, recalling his sojourns in several places across the country, besides Orissa. The man who had successfully run a campaign to make toilets in Singapore cleaner and spread the mission to many other countries, is now busy tying up partnerships to work the same magic in India. He will have his hands full. India and China, the rising economic powers, account for a fifth of the world’s 2.6 billion people who lack access to toilets. Public urination and defecation are part of the culture, even among the affluent. On the other hand, large slums and vast swath

India tops list of nations lacking toilets

WASHINGTON: India has topped the list of top ten nations that lacks sanitary facilities. In an initiative to bring awareness to the need for adequate sanitary facilities, the "big squat" was held worldwide to coincide with the 10th annual World Toilet Day . Here's a list of the world's worst nations in terms of people lacking access to sanitary facilities, reports The Christian Science Monitor. 1. India : 638 million The world's second-most populous nation after China, India has the world's largest number of people going outdoors. Nearly 640 million Indians, or 54 percent of the 1.1 billion population lack access to toilets or other sanitation facilities. In some states, the problem was so bad that village women started a slogan: "No toilet, no bride." 2. Indonesia: 58 million About 58 million Indonesians, 26 percent of its population, don't use toilets. Southern Asia, home to 64 percent of the world's population that still uses the bathr

SANITATION IN INDIA : How Bad is It?

The report Asia Water Watch 2015 projected that India will likely achieve its MDG sanitation target in both urban and rural areas if they continue expanding access at their 1990–2002 rates. By 2015, the percentage of people in urban areas served by improved sanitation1 is expected to reach 80%, up from 43% in 1990. In rural areas, the projection is 48%, an incredible improvement over the coverage rate of just 1% in 1990.2 In real numbers, that means more Indians will have improved their sanitation situation from 1990 to 2015 than the total number of people currently residing in the United States—quite an achievement. However, while India may be “on track” in achieving the MDG sanitation target, it is importantnot to be complacent. MDG goals simply represent achievable levels if countries commit the resources and power to accomplish them. They do not necessarily represent acceptable levels of service. This is especially true for India’s sanitation situation. Despite recent progress,

INDIA’S SANITATION FOR ALL :How to Make It Happen

Providing environmentally-safe sanitation to millions of people is a significant challenge, especially in the world’s second most populated country. The task is doubly difficult in a country where the introduction of new technologies can challenge people’s traditions and beliefs. This discussion paper examines the current state of sanitation services in India in relation to two goals—Goal 7 of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which calls on countries to halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without improved sanitation facilities (from 1990 levels); and India’s more ambitious goal of providing “Sanitation for All” by 2012, established under its Total Sanitation Campaign. This paper discusses six recommendations that can help key stakeholders address the significant obstacles in providing universal sanitation coverage in India. These recommendations, listed below, are based largely on a recent Asian Development Bank (ADB) study—Sanitation in India: Progress, Differentials, Co

"Dirty kumars" to get Sanitation lesson

What type of citizen are you a Thu-Thu kumar(one who spits in public), a Su-Su kumar(one who urinates in public) or a Poly auntie (who throws plastic bags or garbage in public). Surprised! Even I found out what was this all about, but then later on came to know that this is the new campaign(clean the city) run in Delhi by the MCD(Municipal corporation Delhi) to drive civic sense in the capital on the eve of Commonwealth games that will be here very shortly, so the MCD officials are making sure that the city is most presentable to all when they arrive for Commonwealth games. Elaborating on the campaign, Delhi Mayor Kanwar Sain said, "We have prepared 600 signboards with messages related to cleanliness. These will be displayed to educate people." While the hoardings and signboards have already been put up at over 600 strategic locations, the second part of the campaign on television and radio will be launched within a month, the mayor said. The campaign will ask people not to

Mobile court, a step towards sanitation in public places

The Nirmal Gujarat cleanliness campaign initiated by the state government met with limited success due to the voluntary nature of public participation. Now, a health and sanitation mobile court will start functioning from this week to keep a tab on those found littering in public places. The first such mobile court in the state will be flagged off at Paldi by Justice K S Radhakrishnan, Chief Justice of the Gujarat High Court, on June 4. A specially designed AMTS bus has been prepared for housing the mobile court, complete with a magistrate and other officials. It will have a prisoner van and a police vehicle in tow. The prisoner van will be used to house persons who fail to pay the fines. The entire AMC limits will come under the jurisdiction of this court. A provision for a mobile court was announced in the civic budget, but the idea could not be implemented for some reason or the other. But now that the appointment of a magistrate has been cleared, the launch is less than a week away