1. MANTHAN TOPIC:-
Towards cleaner India: Providing Clean Drinking
Water and Proper Sanitation Facility to all.
Team Details:
* Ayush Maheshwari.
* Anshul Maheshwari.
* Siddhant Gupta.
* Rounak Mundhra.
* Vikas Tiwari.
2. CURRENT STATUS OF SANITATION IN INDIA-
This is especially true for urban India. Growing slum population
and lack of adequate Sanitation over 50 million men, women and children to
defecate in the open every day.
Even today, millions of Indians are subjected to grave ill health,
increasing threats to Safety, lower spending on Education and Nutrition, – all
for want of a basic sanitation facility.
For the most part, open spaces used for
defecation are also the only open spaces for
children to play in.
Regular exposure to and direct contact
with faecal matter and
Drinking contaminated water induces
transmission of fatal Diseases such as
diarrhoea, parasitic infections, and worm
infections, especially children.
4. Awareness programme
should be communicated in
local languages on
sanitation.
Improving hygiene- The
most affordable and
effective way to prevent
diseases is to promote
hygiene in marginalized
communities.
Filter water should be
supplied in cities by local
bodies.
Water storage should be
provided in every rural area
such as water harvesting
system.
New technique should be
adopted to overcome the
leakage of pipelines
problems.
Five cornerstones of
Sanitation
5. Policies involved in providing
sanitation in India
1951-Water supply sanitation is a part of first five year plan.
1980-Integrated low cost sanitation scheme is launched.
1987-National water policy drafted recognizing water as a basic right.
1999-Total sanitation campaign is launched in 559 rural districts in India.
2002-10th five year plan places significant emphasis on water supply and
sanitation.
2008-National urban sanitation policy is launched.
2010-India signs the UN convention on water and sanitation as a human right.
**Even after passing certain bills from the parliament, it
is not properly implemented on the right place at right
time.
6. Problems Eradication
Techniques
• As our India is facing a lot of health related problems
due to lack of hygiene & cleanliness can be overcome
by proper Sanitation management.
• By minimisation of pipe leakage ,water can be
conserved.
• If water harvesting system is adopted in rural areas,
the problem of people for collecting water from miles
to miles can be minimized.
7. Challenges to be faced
• Since, the water harvesting system is
expensive to be installed, thus economic crises
can be a challenge.
• Chlorination of water for filtration process can
cause skin diseases .
• For awareness in local areas, local people
should be trained, in which illiteracy can be a
obstruction.
8. Investment on sanitation
The rationale for sanitation investments is clear –
for every $1 spent on sanitation at least $9 is
saved in health, education and 19 economic
development.
The cost of not paying attention to sanitation is
enormous.
Investing in sanitation has the potential to greatly
enhance other development outcomes; yet this sector
in India remains largely neglected.
9. Case Study
A major initiative launched by non profit
gramalaya in 2000, mobilizing women in
the slums in self help groups (SHGs) and
launching an awareness campaign on
sanitation through training.
In February 2011 formal municipal
commissioner of Nanded- Waghala
municipal corporation , along with his team
decided to use the opportunity afford by the
10. Conclusion
The fact that even nations with lower per capita
income such as Bangladesh and Pakistan are
scoring far better than India on various sanitation
indicators serves as a wakeup call.
Increasing levels of urbanization, rising densities
of slums make the need of sanitation more
urgent.
11. Appendix
References-
Ministry of Home Affairs, Population Census of India, 2011
UNICEF India, Water, Environment and Sanitation
Ministry of Rural Development and Ministry of Urban Development,
Government of India, April 2011
Under the Guidelines of -
1 Dr. Supriya Biswas
2 Dr. S K Sar
