Toilets: India - Revision history

Jyoti: /* Open defecation free villages */

2021-06-24T21:45:31Z

‎Open defecation free villages

Jyoti: /* Households without Latrines: India */

2020-12-07T18:31:47Z

‎Households without Latrines: India

Jyoti: /* Toilets at petrol pumps */

2019-03-18T13:58:28Z

‎Toilets at petrol pumps

Jyoti: /* Households without Latrines: India */

2019-03-18T13:56:12Z

‎Households without Latrines: India

Jyoti: /* Open defecation free villages */

2019-02-10T06:20:36Z

‎Open defecation free villages

Jyoti: /* Open defecation free villages */

2019-02-10T06:15:57Z

‎Open defecation free villages

Jyoti: /* Access to toilets, state-wise */

2018-09-17T10:32:45Z

‎Access to toilets, state-wise

Jyoti: /* Toilets in schools */

2018-03-10T10:16:02Z

‎Toilets in schools

Pdewan: /* Toilets in schools */

2018-03-08T14:56:20Z

‎Toilets in schools

Pdewan: /* Highway toilets */

2018-03-08T14:55:14Z

‎Highway toilets

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	An urban development ministry official said the solution to the crisis lies in pushing for greater use of compost made from city waste for farming. At present, only two lakh tonnes of compost is sold annually and existing plants with combined 15 lakh tonnes installed capacity are underutilised. Given the challenges, the Centre and state governments, continue to strive to improve the situation. The number of cities and towns declared open defecation free increased from just 58 in April 2016 to 702. Similarly , 32 lakh individual toilets have been built in comparison to only 13 lakh till April 2016.		An urban development ministry official said the solution to the crisis lies in pushing for greater use of compost made from city waste for farming. At present, only two lakh tonnes of compost is sold annually and existing plants with combined 15 lakh tonnes installed capacity are underutilised. Given the challenges, the Centre and state governments, continue to strive to improve the situation. The number of cities and towns declared open defecation free increased from just 58 in April 2016 to 702. Similarly , 32 lakh individual toilets have been built in comparison to only 13 lakh till April 2016.
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		+	==2018: ¼ rural households had no access to toilet/ NSS==
		+	[https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2019%2F11%2F26&entity=Ar00318&sk=3CDB64E1&mode=text Dipak Dash, Nov 26, 2019: ''The Times of India'']
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		+	A controversy broke out over the latest National Sample Survey (NSS) data claiming that more than one-fourth rural households had no access to toilet during the July-December period of 2018, barely 10 months before all villages in India were declared open defecation free (ODF), prompting the sanitation department to raise doubts about the methodology of the NSS.
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		+	The NSS report contradicted the results of the annual sanitation survey carried out by the government for 2018-19, which had found that 93.1% rural households had access to toilets between November 2018 and February 2019.
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		+	The sample size of the sanitation survey was bigger.
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		+	On Monday, the sanitation department and the statistics and programme implementation ministry, responsible for the NSS, issued a joint statement saying it was “inappropriate” to use the results of the NSS report to draw conclusions about the sanitation status in India due to some limitations in the survey.
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		+	''' ‘Bias behind under-reporting of sanitation coverage’ '''
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		+	Both the surveys, though, had similar findings that over 96% of the rural households who have access to a toilet use it regularly.
		+	An official statement said the NSS report itself had acknowledged respondent bias when asked “a leading question on whether they have ever received benefits from the government, not admitting that they have toilets or LPG cylinders in the hope of receiving additional benefits from government.”
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		+	It said this bias may have led to significant under reporting of sanitation coverage and such biases are often observed in households when canvassing information on items and issues where government funded beneficiary schemes are under implementation.
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		+	“It’s a very peculiar situation as we have two survey findings of 2018 and both studies were done by the government and by credible entities. The National Annual Rural Sanitation Survey (NAR S S) was conducted by an independent verification agency (IVA) under the World Bank support project. So, which one do you believe?,” asked a government official who has been involved in the Swachh Bharat Mission.
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		+	While the survey findings suggested that 71.3% had access to toilet during the survey period, the data on the Swachh Bharat dashboard of the sanitation department registered nearly 95% toilet coverage. The dashboard data is updated based on the details that the agencies upload on the system.
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		+	The joint statement by the two departments tried to pinpoint reasons behind such discrepancy. It said the NSS report itself had issued a disclaimer.
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		+	“In the NSS 76th round, information on ‘benefits received by the household from the government schemes for drinking water, sanitation, housing, electrification and LPG connection facilities’ was collected for the first time, prior to asking them about having access to these facilities…there may be an inherent tendency of the respondent to give a negative reply on the presumption or expectation that a negative reply on benefits received and access to facilities, may help them to get additional benefits through government schemes…These points are to be kept in mind while interpreting the results on the benefits received from different government schemes and access to the said facilities.”
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	The situation in terms of schools having separate toi lets for girls is distinctly better, with the latest data from the District Information System for Education (DISE) showing that in 2013-14, only 8.4% of all schools did not have functional ones. However, here too some states are quite worse off. All told, there are 12 states in which 10% or more of schools do not have functional girls' toilets. These include small north-eastern states but they also have among them big states like Andhra Pradesh (28.3% with no functional girls' toilet), Odisha (24.8%), Bihar (17.5%) and West Bengal (15.2%).		The situation in terms of schools having separate toi lets for girls is distinctly better, with the latest data from the District Information System for Education (DISE) showing that in 2013-14, only 8.4% of all schools did not have functional ones. However, here too some states are quite worse off. All told, there are 12 states in which 10% or more of schools do not have functional girls' toilets. These include small north-eastern states but they also have among them big states like Andhra Pradesh (28.3% with no functional girls' toilet), Odisha (24.8%), Bihar (17.5%) and West Bengal (15.2%).
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		+	=India vis-à-vis other countries=
		+	==2000-17: India makes progress==
		+	[[File: Top 10 countries for reduction in population practising open defecation (percentage point), 2000-17..jpg\|Top 10 countries for reduction in population practising open defecation (percentage point), 2000-17. <br/> From: [https://epaper.timesgroup.com/olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2019%2F06%2F20&entity=Ar00203&sk=921156D2&mode=image June 20, 2019: ''The Times of India'']\|frame\|500px]]
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		+	'''See graphic''':
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		+	'' Top 10 countries for reduction in population practising open defecation (percentage point), 2000-17. ''
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 A bench of Justices Abhay Oka and Riyaz Chagla heard a petition challenging BMC’s December 22, 2017, notice to retail outlets to make available toilets for use by general public free of cost and to put up signboards. “It appears guidelines published by Swachh Bharat Mission do not authorise the municipal corporation to declare that toilets available at petrol pumps are available for public. Such act is prima facie illegal,” said the bench.
 The interim order came on a petition by Petrol Owners’ Association and 12 petrol pumps in Masjid Bunder, Andheri, Bandra and Matunga. The bench said relief was only for 12 pumps.
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+==2014/ 53% of households don't have latrines==
 ''' Stats affirm PM's stress on toilets '''

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 An urban development ministry official said the solution to the crisis lies in pushing for greater use of compost made from city waste for farming. At present, only two lakh tonnes of compost is sold annually and existing plants with combined 15 lakh tonnes installed capacity are underutilised. Given the challenges, the Centre and state governments, continue to strive to improve the situation. The number of cities and towns declared open defecation free increased from just 58 in April 2016 to 702. Similarly , 32 lakh individual toilets have been built in comparison to only 13 lakh till April 2016.
 =Toilets on Highways =

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 An urban development ministry official said the solution to the crisis lies in pushing for greater use of compost made from city waste for farming. At present, only two lakh tonnes of compost is sold annually and existing plants with combined 15 lakh tonnes installed capacity are underutilised. Given the challenges, the Centre and state governments, continue to strive to improve the situation. The number of cities and towns declared open defecation free increased from just 58 in April 2016 to 702. Similarly , 32 lakh individual toilets have been built in comparison to only 13 lakh till April 2016.
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 =Access to toilets, state-wise=
 ==2017: The best and worst states==
 [http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=90-of-villagers-have-access-to-toilets-09082017016013  Dipak Dash, 90% of villagers have access to toilets, August 9, 2017: The Times of India]

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	HP became the second state to get `open defecation free' status. But the statistics provided by amicus curiae Deven Khanna was startling: “ Approximately 10 million toilets were constructed between 2006-07 and 2010-11 across the country under Total Sanitation Campaign, but unfortunately, toilets remain largely defunct and are reportedly being used as storerooms.“		HP became the second state to get `open defecation free' status. But the statistics provided by amicus curiae Deven Khanna was startling: “ Approximately 10 million toilets were constructed between 2006-07 and 2010-11 across the country under Total Sanitation Campaign, but unfortunately, toilets remain largely defunct and are reportedly being used as storerooms.“
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		+	= Toilets at petrol pumps=
		+	== Municipalities not authorised to force toilets at petrol pumps to open for public: HC==
		+	[https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIM%2F2018%2F03%2F08&entity=Ar01009&sk=296AB729&mode=text HC raps BMC on toilets at petrol pumps, March 8, 2018: ''The Times of India'']
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		+	The Bombay high court directed the BMC to remove from the premises of 12 petrol pumps signboards declaring their toilets available for the general public under the Swachh Bharat Mission.
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		+	A bench of Justices Abhay Oka and Riyaz Chagla heard a petition challenging BMC’s December 22, 2017, notice to retail outlets to make available toilets for use by general public free of cost and to put up signboards. “It appears guidelines published by Swachh Bharat Mission do not authorise the municipal corporation to declare that toilets available at petrol pumps are available for public. Such act is prima facie illegal,” said the bench.
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		+	The interim order came on a petition by Petrol Owners’ Association and 12 petrol pumps in Masjid Bunder, Andheri, Bandra and Matunga. The bench said relief was only for 12 pumps.

	=Toilets in schools=		=Toilets in schools=

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	An urban development ministry official said the solution to the crisis lies in pushing for greater use of compost made from city waste for farming. At present, only two lakh tonnes of compost is sold annually and existing plants with combined 15 lakh tonnes installed capacity are underutilised. Given the challenges, the Centre and state governments, continue to strive to improve the situation. The number of cities and towns declared open defecation free increased from just 58 in April 2016 to 702. Similarly , 32 lakh individual toilets have been built in comparison to only 13 lakh till April 2016.		An urban development ministry official said the solution to the crisis lies in pushing for greater use of compost made from city waste for farming. At present, only two lakh tonnes of compost is sold annually and existing plants with combined 15 lakh tonnes installed capacity are underutilised. Given the challenges, the Centre and state governments, continue to strive to improve the situation. The number of cities and towns declared open defecation free increased from just 58 in April 2016 to 702. Similarly , 32 lakh individual toilets have been built in comparison to only 13 lakh till April 2016.
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		+	=Toilets on Highways =
		+	==A fundamental right: HP HC==
		+	[http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=HC-Highway-toilets-a-fundamental-right-17062017001075 Dhananjay Mahapatra, HC: Highway toilets a fundamental right, June 17, 2017: The Times of India]
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		+	The Himachal Pradesh high court has ruled that public convenience facilities along highways are a fundamental right of passengers and tourists.
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		+	“Shockingly , there are no public conveniences available on these highways, as a result of which public travelling day in and day out on such roads are compelled to urinatedefecate in open, causing damage to the ecology as well as causing pollution,“ a high court bench of acting Chief Justice Sanjay Karol and Justice Sandeep Sharma said.
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		+	Terming the act of easing oneself in the open undignified, the bench said for cing people to defecate or urinate in public due to absence of public conveniences was akin to violating their dignity, which was intrinsic to right to life. Terming the act of eas ing oneself in the open as undignified, the bench said forcing people to defecate or urinate in public due to absence of public conveniences was akin to violating their dignity , which was intrinsic to right to life.
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		+	“Citizens travelling on statenational highways need to be protected from open defecation, untreated disposal of waste into streams and contamination of water supplies, which could become a big problem with heavy tourist influx coupled with lack of proper civic amenities in the state,“ it said and mentioned the signs of various sanitationlinked diseases raising their ugly head in the state.
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		+	HP became the second state to get `open defecation free' status. But the statistics provided by amicus curiae Deven Khanna was startling: “ Approximately 10 million toilets were constructed between 2006-07 and 2010-11 across the country under Total Sanitation Campaign, but unfortunately, toilets remain largely defunct and are reportedly being used as storerooms.“

	=Toilets in schools=		=Toilets in schools=

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	An urban development ministry official said the solution to the crisis lies in pushing for greater use of compost made from city waste for farming. At present, only two lakh tonnes of compost is sold annually and existing plants with combined 15 lakh tonnes installed capacity are underutilised. Given the challenges, the Centre and state governments, continue to strive to improve the situation. The number of cities and towns declared open defecation free increased from just 58 in April 2016 to 702. Similarly , 32 lakh individual toilets have been built in comparison to only 13 lakh till April 2016.		An urban development ministry official said the solution to the crisis lies in pushing for greater use of compost made from city waste for farming. At present, only two lakh tonnes of compost is sold annually and existing plants with combined 15 lakh tonnes installed capacity are underutilised. Given the challenges, the Centre and state governments, continue to strive to improve the situation. The number of cities and towns declared open defecation free increased from just 58 in April 2016 to 702. Similarly , 32 lakh individual toilets have been built in comparison to only 13 lakh till April 2016.
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−	~~==A fundamental right: HC==~~
−	[http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=HC-Highway-toilets-a-fundamental-right-17062017001075 Dhananjay Mahapatra, HC: Highway toilets a fundamental right, June 17, 2017: The Times of India]
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−	~~The Himachal Pradesh high court has ruled that public convenience facilities along highways are a fundamental right of passengers and tourists.~~
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−	“Shockingly , there are no public conveniences available on these highways, as a result of which public travelling day in and day out on such roads are compelled to urinatedefecate in open, causing damage to the ecology as well as causing pollution,“ a high court bench of acting Chief Justice Sanjay Karol and Justice Sandeep Sharma said.
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−	Terming the act of easing oneself in the open undignified, the bench said for cing people to defecate or urinate in public due to absence of public conveniences was akin to violating their dignity, which was intrinsic to right to life. Terming the act of eas ing oneself in the open as undignified, the bench said forcing people to defecate or urinate in public due to absence of public conveniences was akin to violating their dignity , which was intrinsic to right to life.
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−	“Citizens travelling on statenational highways need to be protected from open defecation, untreated disposal of waste into streams and contamination of water supplies, which could become a big problem with heavy tourist influx coupled with lack of proper civic amenities in the state,“ it said and mentioned the signs of various sanitationlinked diseases raising their ugly head in the state.
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−	HP became the second state to get `open defecation free' status. But the statistics provided by amicus curiae Deven Khanna was startling: “ Approximately 10 million toilets were constructed between 2006-07 and 2010-11 across the country under Total Sanitation Campaign, but unfortunately, toilets remain largely defunct and are reportedly being used as storerooms.“

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