Reported by BBC on 14th of Feb - This is about a newly wed woman Anita Narre, who left her husband Shivram's home two days after her marriage in May last year because the house had no toilet.
Here is our Government is planning some
1,70,337 latrines.
It is hard to believe that, our people can't even afford a latrine in their backyard and hence Government has to offer such schemes ?
Sanjay
Colony, a JJ cluster in Okhla Phase II, home to nearly 40,000 working
women, men and children, remains without any toilet facilities:Assemble
at Ferozshah Kotla Maidan on 28 March 2008 at 11 Am to march to Delhi
Secretariat.
Integrated Low Cost Sanitation (ILCS) Scheme started with the objective of eradicating all dry latrines and thereby liberating manual scavengers from inhuman practice of carrying night soil. The scheme also has provision for construction of new latrines for the Economically Weaker Section (EWS) households who have no latrine facility.
Sanctions have been made and funds have been released for conversion of all reported dry latrines to the States. Out of the funds available for construction of sanitary latrines to Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) households, funds have been fully committed and projects sanctioned for construction of 1,70,337 new latrines and States have reported that work is in progress.
ILCS scheme is in its final year of implementation and the mandate of the scheme was conversion of dry latrines which has been fully achieved with total sanction of projects for conversion of all dry latrines reported by State Governments.