-The Hindustan Times India's record, when it comes to sanitation, has been most unsanitary. Of the estimated billion people who defecate in the open across the world, more than half are here. Poor sanitation impairs the health of Indians, leading to high rates of malnutrition and productivity losses. According to the World Bank, India's sanitation deficit leads to losses worth 6% of GDP. In such a scenario, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's...
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Swachch Bharat Mission: It's not just about building Toilets -Sangita Vyas
-The Business Standard Ending open defecation by 2019 will require changing minds, not just allocating money to build latrines for people that will either go unused or not be built at all During Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Independence Day speech, we learned that his Swachch Bharat Mission to eliminate open defecation in India by Mahatma Gandhi's 150th birth anniversary, would begin in less than two months on October 2. What was...
More »Bitter pill to swallow -Reetika Khera
-The Indian Express Rajasthan government's decision to ‘target' free medicines and diagnostics is contrary to the recommended role of government in healthcare. In 2002-03, Abhijit Banerjee, Angus Deaton and Esther Duflo studied health facilities in rural Udaipur, Rajasthan. They found that facilities were poor and absenteeism was rampant. In 2013, we decided to revisit the same public health facilities. The motivation was to study two bold initiatives of the then Ashok Gehlot...
More »New Toilets a Small Step for Women in this Uttar Pradesh Village
-AFP Katra Shahadatganj: Decorated with marigolds and ribbons, 108 Toilets unveiled in a tragedy-hit village are a small step in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's push to end open-air defecation for impoverished Indian women. The spotlessly clean Toilets were donated on Sunday to the village in northern Uttar Pradesh, where scared and vulnerable women had long been forced to trek nightly into the fields to relieve themselves. "I believe no woman must lose...
More »Sulabh builds 108 Toilets in Badaun village
-The Hindustan Times Lucknow: Women in Katra Sahadatgunj village of Badaun district will no longer have to wait for darkness to attend the call of nature in the open. Low-cost sanitation NGO Sulabh International on Sunday dedicated 108 Toilets built in the village - which has a population of 4,000 people. After the alleged rape and gruesome murder of two sisters who had gone out at night to attend the call of nature,...
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