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India to become 'open defecation free' by 2012 (Diversity Alert)
Daily India ^ | 3/27/06 | Mikey_1962

Posted on 03/27/2006 10:35:33 AM PST by Mikey_1962

New Delhi, March 26 (IANS) Come 2012 and it will be rare to see people defecating in the open in India. So claims Rural Development Minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh, who went on to say that the country was set to achieve 'open-defecation free' status under the government's Total Sanitation Programme (TSC).

'Open defecation is slowly losing popularity in rural India, and the government is doing all efforts to end this for all by 2012,' Singh told IANS.

The TSC was started in 1999 by the rural development ministry to ensure sanitation facilities across the country.

'The growth in the use of toilets from 22 percent in 2001 to 38 percent of the population in 2006 (till February) is an encouraging sign. The government has raised the grant for construction of household toilets from Rs.625 to Rs.1,500.

'While the central government would now bear 70 percent of the expenditure as against 60 percent earlier, the rest will be shared by the state government and the family,' he said, on the sidelines of a campaign on the need to wash hands.

The minister pointed out other issues related to defecation.

'In Haryana and Punjab people are not poor, what they lack is awareness. They have trucks, tractors and four-wheelers but no toilets - this is really surprising. However, states like Gujarat and Maharashtra are doing well,' he said.

Singh said that plans were afoot to extend the TSC to all districts of India by the end of 2007-08 financial year.

Speaking about other sanitation measures taken by his ministry, he said a water surveillance campaign worth Rs.2.68 billion had been launched to train five people in every panchayat (village clusters) to monitor water quality in villages.

'Currently 468 blocks in India have water surveillance laboratories. Under the new campaign, efforts would be made to extend the facility to every block.'

He said 216,000 village clusters were hit by the problem of poor quality water.

'We have reports of excessive fluoride, nitrate and presence of other chemicals in water. The authorities are working to provide quality water.'


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: defecation; india
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1 posted on 03/27/2006 10:35:33 AM PST by Mikey_1962
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To: Mikey_1962

More bad news for liberals, homeless advocates, and fertilizer manufacturers.


2 posted on 03/27/2006 10:39:03 AM PST by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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To: Mikey_1962

Next stop: Berkeley!


3 posted on 03/27/2006 10:39:45 AM PST by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: Mikey_1962

Freedom to crap is not in the constitution?


4 posted on 03/27/2006 10:39:50 AM PST by satchmodog9 (Most people stand on the tracks and never even hear the train coming)
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To: Mikey_1962

When I saw the headline, I first thought that the issue was similar to efforts to eliminate outhouses in rural areas in America over the last 75 years.

I realize know that outhouses would be a considerable step up for most in India.


5 posted on 03/27/2006 10:40:21 AM PST by TC Rider (The United States Constitution © 1791. All Rights Reserved.)
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To: Izzy Dunne

Berkeley, hell. San Francisco.


6 posted on 03/27/2006 10:41:28 AM PST by VeniVidiVici (What? Me worry?)
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To: Mikey_1962

Headline should have been--

India to citizens: We've had enough s#*t from you


7 posted on 03/27/2006 10:43:26 AM PST by WKUHilltopper
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To: lainie

Public defecation ping!


8 posted on 03/27/2006 10:43:57 AM PST by JennysCool (Liberals don't care what you do, as long as it's mandatory.)
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To: Mikey_1962
We need one of these for humans...


9 posted on 03/27/2006 10:45:47 AM PST by PetroniusMaximus
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To: Mikey_1962

AWWW MAN! That really stinks...


10 posted on 03/27/2006 10:45:53 AM PST by Zavien Doombringer (Mr. Franklin, what form of customes did you create in Tiajunna? A beeber, Madam, if you can stune it)
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To: Mikey_1962

Coming soon to America via Mexico


12 posted on 03/27/2006 10:47:25 AM PST by Minus_The_Bear
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To: Izzy Dunne

I want St. Augustine, Florida (or at any rate, the part near Lincolnville and St. Francis House) to become "open urination free."


13 posted on 03/27/2006 10:48:06 AM PST by livius
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To: Mikey_1962
"Open defecation is slowly losing popularity in rural India"

Popularity?

14 posted on 03/27/2006 10:48:14 AM PST by BenLurkin (O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
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To: Blurblogger; speedy; Rennes Templar; Joe 6-pack

The entire country is flush with excitement (or is that excrement)


15 posted on 03/27/2006 10:49:17 AM PST by hispanarepublicana (I'd rather go hunting with Dick Cheney than get in a car with Ted Kennedy...[props to Auto Power])
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To: Mikey_1962
We should try it. It would end the availability of the NY Times on the street.
16 posted on 03/27/2006 10:49:54 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: hispanarepublicana

This is a practice that should be safe, legal and rear.


17 posted on 03/27/2006 10:50:58 AM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Mikey_1962

oh my


18 posted on 03/27/2006 10:51:17 AM PST by cvq3842
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To: Mikey_1962

You know its bad when you actually have to teach your citizens how to go to the bathroom.


19 posted on 03/27/2006 10:52:05 AM PST by Ainast
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To: Mikey_1962

Now if the DNC would adopt the same pledge...


20 posted on 03/27/2006 10:52:28 AM PST by pabianice
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