A presentation given at the Global Bamboo and Rattan Congress (BARC 2018), 25-27 June 2018.

1. Role of bamboo in
toilet design
and
BAMTECH app
Session 52: The Role of Bamboo in Emergency Shelters and Social Housing
Day 2 14:00-15:30 June 26 2018, Tuesday
Kamesh Salam
Founder and CEO,
South Asian Bamboo Foundation (SABF), India.

2. About : South Asian Bamboo Foundation
• South Asia bamboo Foundation (SABF) is a non-profit
conservative action organization established to ensure livelihood
support to the rural masses by using native bamboo species
throughout South Asia. The foundation aims at providing
networking, policy support, awareness, technical knowhow,
training and capacity building, design development, technology
intervention, marketing, advisory services, related to bamboo and
its products including bamboo housing and structures in the
South Asian countries. It’s registered under Indian trust Act. of
India at Guwahati, Assam, India

3. Bamboo
Bamboo, one of the fastest
growing plants, whether to call
as poor man’s timber, green
gold, giant grass or woody grass
it is one of the amazing raw
materials to explore in various
ways and means for all kinds of
applications for day to day uses.

4. Grass of Plenty
Applications –
Structure – Housing
Tools – Agriculture
Food - Shoots / Beer
Fibre - Paper / Rayon
Energy – Biomass / Charcoal
Music - Entertainment

5. Biodiversity
Distribution Map
1500 Species
Fast Growing Grass
Rhizomes
Shoots
Sheaths
Culm
Branches
Leaves
Buds . . .

6. Bamboo Architecture
Bridges
Engineering
Co-operation
• Tensile Strength
• Rope making
• Peoples Participation

7. Bamboo Fences
• Walls
• Trellis
• Mats
• Doors
• Fences
• Gates
• Kiosks
• Local Economy
• Employment Generation
• Aesthetic Sensibility

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India had and has the problems of
defecation in the open and manual
cleaning of night soil by untouchables
called human scavengers. Gandhi was
the first person whose attention was
drawn to find out solutions of these
problems.

10. ए क कद म स ् व च ् छ त ा की ओर
One step towards cleanliness

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Shri Narendra Modi is the first Prime Minister
of India who has given importance to
sanitation and toilets after Mahatma Gandhi.
To pay tribute to Mahatma on his 150th Birth
Anniversary, he in his speech on 15th August
2014 called upon the people to end the
practice of defecation in open by 2019. Lunch
Swatch Bharat – Clean India Mission.

12. A nation’s agenda !!! TOILET
• On India’s 68th Independence Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi
spoke about the need to improve India’s sex ratios and against
the widespread practice of aborting female foetuses in his speech.
He used the occasion to take about improving sanitation and
hygiene in terms of restoring women’s dignity, lack of access to
toilets linking it to preventive health and also defeating poverty.
He urged individuals to take more responsibility to stop dropping
litter, keep their neighbourhoods and villages clean, to care for
those weaker than them. Stressing on the need for cleanliness, the.

13. A nation’s agenda !!! TOILET
• Prime Minister announced his Government’s resolve for “Swachh
Bharat” – a vision which has been launched on October 2nd 2014 ,
to be accomplished by 2019, on the 150th birth anniversary of
Mahatma Gandhi. In a related initiative, the Prime Minister said
the first step towards “Swachh Bharat” begins with immediate
effect, through a commitment to build toilets in all schools,
including separate toilets for girls, within one year

14. ए क कद म स ् व च ् छ त ा की ओर
One step towards cleanliness
• Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (SBA) (or Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) or
Clean India Mission in English) is a campaign in India that aims to
clean up the streets, roads and infrastructure of India's cities,
smaller towns, and rural areas. The objectives of Swachh Bharat
include eliminating open defecation through the construction of
household-owned and community-owned toilets and
establishing an accountable mechanism of monitoring toilet use.

15. • Run by the Government of India, the mission aims to achieve an
Open-Defecation Free (ODF) India by 2 October 2019, the 150th
anniversary of the birth of Mahatma Gandhi, by constructing 90
million toilets in rural India at a projected cost of ₹1.96 lakh crore
(US$30 billion).[1] The mission will also contribute to India
reaching Sustainable Development Goal Number 6 (SDG 6).

16. Social Issues;
We use them every day – at home, school, work,
restaurants, shopping malls – yet we seldom talk
about them. The silence around the issue of
toilets and sanitation has deadly consequences.

17. Global scenario
• Around one billion people in our world today face the indignity
of defecating in the open. A lack of clean and safe toilets at
schools leads to higher dropout among girls once they reach
puberty. Diarrhoeal diseases – a direct consequence of poor
sanitation – kill more children every year than AIDS, malaria and
measles combined.( Source ; World Toilet Org)

18. Our initiative on Bamboo Toilet
• To strengthen the 'Swachh Bharat' initiative announced by Prime
Minister Narendra Modi, South Asia Bamboo Foundation (SABF)
with support of Building Materials Technology & Promotion
Council (BMPTC) of Government of India started to train
workers/artisans / companies/NGO on construction of Bamboo
toilets across the country on Bamboo Toilets construction .

19. Bamboo Housing Tech
• Environmental Sustainability : Bamboo can be sustainably
harvested and replenished with virtually no impact to the
environment
• Structural stability : Bamboo exceeds the strength of construction
wood by several times. It is durable in earthquake prone areas &
long lasting
• Aesthetic : Bamboo constructions are graceful & elegant. Bamboo
has a tradition dating back years because of its beauty and
luxurious ambiance.

21. Training at Kochi, Kerala

34. Bamboo Toilets for community in Nagaland

35. Bamboo Toilets for community in Nagaland

36. Public Toilet at Kaziranga, National Park , Assam

37. Opening of Public “pay & use” bamboo Toilets

39. Design and layout of Single and Double Toilet

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There are two pits one of which is used at one time. When one pit becomes full then the other
pit is used. Both the pits are used but one at a time. After two years in the first pit the excreta
turns into bio-fertilizer which can be cleaned by anybody and this fertilizer can then be used in
fields and gardens for enhancing productivity. The minimum period of cleaning the pit is 2 years
the maximum is 40 years. ( Design/courtesy : SULABH SHAUCHALAYA MODEL).

43. Prime Minister Modi
nominated brand
Ambassador of Swatch
Bharat Padmanabha
Acharya, Nagaland
Governor inaugurating
Bamboo toilet in
Dimapur, Nagaland

44. Lunching of Bamboo Toilet at Nagaland

49. Poma Village, Arunchal Pradesh

51. Innovation possible

52. Innovation possible

53. Innovation in Tech – BAMTECH APP

57. Promotion of BAMTECH app

58. Now Available on Google Play
Store

63. One move can make it a MOVEMENT