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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Why Households Are Being Excluded From Modi's Swachh Bharat Scheme -Kabir Agarwal

Why Households Are Being Excluded From Modi's Swachh Bharat Scheme -Kabir Agarwal

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published Published on Oct 15, 2018   modified Modified on Oct 15, 2018
-TheWire.in

In villages where the number of households as per the baseline survey is less than the actual households, the toilet building exercise poses an allocation challenge: Who gets the limited number of toilets?

Barabanki/ Meerut/ Lucknow/ Shamli:
Usha Devi is 24, belongs to a so-called lower caste. She has five children, the eldest is seven-years-old and the youngest one month. Her husband works as a labourer at a brick kiln earning Rs 250 a day. The family lives in a small ramshackle house in Azizabad, a small village of about 100 households in Barabanki. There is a toilet on their premises, but it remains locked.

“It was built for my father-in-law. He used to live here earlier,” Devi explained. Earlier this year, the father-in-law, along with his wife and two unmarried sons, moved to another part of the village where they don’t have a toilet on their premises. “They come here daily to use the toilet. But they don’t allow us to use it. They lock it after use,” she said.

Devi’s family has not received the Rs 12,000 provided as incentive under the Swachh Bharat Mission (Gramin) to build a toilet. They continue to defecate in the open despite having a toilet on their premises.

The family’s predicament is faced by many where the structure of the families changed after 2012. As The Wire reported earlier, in 2012 a baseline survey was conducted to identify the number of households in rural India that did not have access to toilets. That survey forms the basis on which targets are set under the SBM (Gramin), i.e, the number of toilets needed to be built is equal to the number of households lacking toilets according to the baseline survey.

In that survey, the family mentioned here would have been counted as one household since they lived together at the time. However, now they live in different dwellings and are separate households. But as far as the SBM (Gramin) is concerned, they remain one household.

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TheWire.in, 9 October, 2018, https://thewire.in/government/swachh-bharat-narendra-modi


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