The Insanitary Profile of India’s Sanitation

Abstract

This is quite interesting to know that how Lack of sanitation facilities leads to a less productive population which further leads to a huge economic loss. A World Bank study claims that due to lack of sanitation Indian economy is losing 6.4% of the GDP. Recently announced Swaach Bharat Abhiyan which proclaims  a goal of eliminating open defecation by 2019 was a great idea but to see its successful implementation is the real challenge where  nearly 60 percent of India's population practice open defecation which spreads bacterial, viral, and parasitic infections, including cholera, polio, diarrhea,   and hookworm .it must be a deep introspective question that has it ever pained us that our sisters and mothers  have to go outside home and defecate in open? Poor women in the rural areas wait for the night until darkness descends, before that they can`t go out to defecate. What bodily and mentally harassment they must be feeling, how many diseases they might prone to? Is this the great India we are living in where we are failing to   arrange the toilets for the dignity of our mothers and sisters?