subject | Failing The Capital On Swachh Mission |
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writer | Bret |
brethatch@orange.fr | |
date | 24-06-22 14:37 |
hit | 20 |
관련링크본문<script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> The Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan launched by Prime Minister Modi on Gandhi Jayanti in 2014 seems to have hit roadblock as far as the national capital is concerned. The report, tabled in the State Assembly, observed that Rs 40.31 crore comprising of Central share of Rs 30.23 crore and State share of Rs 10.08 crore was released to the implementing agencies in January 2016 for the construction of household toilets, community toilets and public toilets. According to the CAG report, the Delhi Government did not give adequate importance to the implementation of the mission despite the Economic Survey of Delhi, 2016-17 revealing that 350,000 households in Delhi (about 10.5 per cent of all households) do not have toilet facility and 22 per cent slums lack toilet facility. The AAP, in its manifesto had promised to construct 200,000 toilet blocks in slums/JJ clusters and unauthorised colonies. However, post the formation of the Government, when a high-powered committee requested the Government to identify the sites and blocks for constructions, the latter assessed that the Capital would need to construct only 11,117 household toilets, 25,097 community toilets (including 16,050 for slums and JJs) and 605 public toilets under the Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan by October 2019. The problem got further exacerbated due to the south and north Delhi Municipal Corporation (DMCs) not considering unauthorised colonies for projecting requirement of individual household toilets. The Delhi Government's inability to target individual households for the construction of household toilets and to identify sites and blocks for construction of community toilets and public toilets, and ignoring the toilet requirements in unauthorised colonies shows its deficient concern for public convenience facilities. The problems pertaining to Swachh Bharat Mission in Delhi also got compounded due to the lack of awareness levels. The CAG audit report also observed in this regard that a total of only Rs 2.03 crore was spent on public awareness programme against Rs 5.17 crore released. The United Nations report on water access and sanitation in India states that 564 million of the country's people still defecated in the open. The UN report further states that 65,000 tonnes of uncovered, untreated faeces equal to the weight of around 180 Airbus A380s were being introduced into the environment in India every single day. Apart from the Government inability, there is also another factor in getting all of India's households and communities to use latrines, and to take collective responsibility for their upkeep. The stakes are high especially for human health and this reflects in India's sanitation crisis, which has huge costs. The UN estimates that around 117,000 of the deaths of Indian children under the age of five are being caused by diarrhoea, the incidence of which correlates closely with the quality of sanitation in an area. |
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