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Union Budget 2022-23: Why rural Swachh Bharat Mission needs to be back in focus -Sushmita Sengupta

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published Published on Jan 25, 2022   modified Modified on Jan 26, 2022

-Down to Earth

A lot needs to be done to ensure faecal sludge is treated before reaching water source

Are we losing focus of the Prime Minister’s dream project Swachh Bharat Mission (grameen)? Whatever the answer is, the fact is we cannot afford to do so. 

In October 2019, rural India was declared open-defecation free. By this, the department of drinking water and sanitation under the Union Ministry of Jal Shakti meant that every household has access to a toilet. 

More than 160 million household toilets have been built in the rural areas, according to the latest dashboard of the mission. This means on an average, around 840 million people are using these toilets (considering there are five persons per household). 

Toilets created should be technologically equipped to treat the faecal matter in-situ. The National Annual Rural Sanitation Survey (NARSS) 2018-19 report, a third party audit report of the state of sanitation in rural India said that around 34 per cent of the toilets have septic tanks with soakaway pits and 30 per cent are twin leach pit toilets. 

The survey defined other toilets that have single-leach pits, closed drains with sewer systems and closed pits also as ‘safe toilets’. At the national level, around 99.9 per cent households practise safe disposal of excreta, NARSS 2019-20 stated.

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Down to Earth, 25 January, 2022, https://www.downtoearth.org.in/blog/rural-water-and-sanitation/union-budget-2022-23-why-rural-swachh-bharat-mission-needs-to-be-back-in-focus-81274?fbclid=IwAR0J1YPS7r6Ose6wa9Uv08G7iqjmbf5hA6ww6MbUGX7g_12xPgQOluKPnoc
 

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