The Importance Of Sanitation In India

ABSTRACT:-

Sanitation is always regarded as a key of development for any country. Sanitation generally refers to the provision of facilities for disposal of human waste. It deals with maintenance of hygienic conditions through services such as collection and disposal of solid and liquid waste. Several deadly diseases because of lack of sanitation like diarrhea, dysentery, typhoid, malaria, dengue and etc are the outcome of improper sanitation. Therefore this paper aims to highlight the sanitation problem in India and suggest the remedies to control environmental pollution to make the India healthy .One thing which needs to focus is ‘sanitation in Indian Railway ’.

INTRODUCTION:-

India is the seventh largest country by area, the second

It shocking to know that '90% of India’s sanitation workers die before them turn 60 after contracting various infectious diseasesWOMEN has adverse affected due lack of sanitation .Women lacking access to toilets and using open spaces ,often wait till dark and drink less water or modify their diet ,which has adverse health implication.

Role of Government and Society:-

To achieve the target of total sanitation by the year 2019, government needs additional support from all sections of society .It is imperative that theIndian corporate sectors takes this challenge within the ambit of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).If sufficient manpower /material support could be generated through the fund available under CSR in addition to government efforts, it may help in translating the goal of SWACHH BHARAT by 2019 a reality.

Steps taken to achieve complete sanitation in India

1) Availability of water in all habitation.

2)Availabilities of private or public toilets in all habitation

3) An appropriate sewage and garbage disposal system

4)Basic facilities to maintain

We are still not ready to accept that cleanliness along with wider issue of sanitation is caste based. Because of our casteist mindsets, we are not willing to break this shackle. We are not ready to address the issue of cleaners of India. India is not clean because we don’t want cleaners to live with dignity and equality. Reality is that we have doomed a specific caste to clean our gutters, our garbage & our sewers. And we never felt ashamed of it. Why sanitation workers are not in focus in all this discourse, knowing the fact that in India sanitation is caste based. In 2014 while we are writing these words, more than 3 lakhs sanitation workers, all dalits, are manually cleaning the filth and human waste. Hundreds of them are waste fighting for life inside gutters. Hundreds of women manual scavengers are forced to clean dry toilets, thousands are cleaning railway tracks. We are talking so much about sanitation and not talking about modernisation of sewerage system. How can India be called a developed nation when sons of her soil have to enter in sewer lines to clean the blockages. Many of them are dying and others are also fully aware that they can die inside