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India needs hygiene education as well as new toilets -Nitya Jacob

-The Guardian

Narendra Modi may be feeling flush enough to spend millions on putting a loo in every home, but people also need to understand why they should use them

From being the humble recipient of human waste, the toilet has reached the exalted status of being the subject of speeches by India's Narendra Modi. The prime minister promised to put a toilet in every home by 2019 in his independence day speech in August, and recently reaffirmed a government target to build 5.2m lavatories in the first 100 days of his tenure.

The ministry of drinking water and sanitation has put its money where Modi's mouth is by substantially raising subsidies for building toilets. Government subsidies for household loos have risen by almost 50%. The amount set aside for community toilets has trebled. There's more funding for them in schools and health centres, too.

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