Open-Defecation Free(ODF)
Stone India - Stone India receives Technology Demonstration and Development Program (TDDP) grant of Rs. 2.88 Cr for Bio-Toilet
New Delhi, Jan 10, 2012: Stone India Ltd has informed BSE that the Company has designed an unique environment friendly Bio-Toilet system named ENBIOLET. The product has been approved by Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of India for a grant of Rs. 2.88 Cr under its TDDP
(Technology Demonstration and Development Program) for mass scale adaptation across India to eliminate open defecation and manual scavenging.
India – Open defecation “serious threat“ to health
New Delhi, Oct 21: Despite an increase in the number of toilets, open defecation remains the single largest threat to health and nutritional status in the country, a report said today.
India Human Development Report 2011, brought out by Institute of Applied Manpower Research of the Planning Commission, also pointed out that a greater proportion of Muslim households compared to SCs/STs had access to sanitation facilities, largely due to their urban concentration.
Open defecation still common sight in rural areas in India
VARANASI: A decade to the launch of Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) and the district is still lagging behind in providing proper sanitation. The practice of open defecation is still common, particularly in rural areas.
Indonesia, NTT: latrine “contracts” to fight open defecation
Local officials in a district in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) province are trying out social “contracts” to encourage villagers to build and use latrines. So far five families in the province’s Timor Tengah Selatan District have signed such a contract, which is countersigned by representatives of three levels of government.
Even though 80% of households in the district have latrines, less than half of them are used, according to local officials. Open defecation is common and people don’t wash their hands.
Open defecation – India’s shame
A report by WHO-UNICEF says that Indians comprised 58 percent of all people who defecate in the open.
This is one statistics that will put India in the poor light. A report by WHO-UNICEF says that Indians comprised 58 percent of all people who defecate in the open. However, the worldwide figures show a decline from the previous years’. The report points out that open defecation worldwide is on decline from 25 per cent in 1990 to 17 per cent in 2008.
Some of the key findings of the report:
The first city in India where open defecation prevented in all slums
Tiruchirappalli City Corporation –the first city in India where open defecation prevented in all slums
Nirmal Gram Puraskar (NGP) Guidelines
NGP stands for Nirmal Gram Puraskar. To add vigour to the Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC), in June 2003, GoI initiated an incentive scheme for fully sanitized and open defecation free Gram Panchayats, Blocks, and Districts called the Nirmal Gram Puraskar. The incentive pattern is based on population criteria and it varies from Rs.50,000 to Rs.50 lakh. Read More
Open Defecation Also Leads to Rise in Rape and Murder in Uttar Pradesh
A spate of exceptionally brutal rapes in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh has shocked India. Many of the victims were young girls. The BBC's Geeta Pandey reports from Lucknow.
For Sarika, 16, it was like any other day when she went out to the fields for her evening ablutions with her friend Chhaya. It was a cold February evening and it was pitch dark. "I was feeling a little scared so I wanted to get back quickly," she tells me. On the way back, she says, she was attacked by Shivam and three other men from the village.
India, Mumbai: tackling open defecation in Dharavi
The municipal corporation of Mumbai (BMC) is finally taking action, after seven years, to stop Dharavi slum dwellers from using the Maharashtra Nature Park Society (MNPS) footpath as an open toilet.
Despite having a toilet in the vicinity, locals would defecate there early in the morning to save money. BMC sanitation workers would not turn up for days at a time to clean up the mess. The Maharashtra Housing & Area Development Authority (MHADA) had cancelled earlier plans to build more toilets near the park because there no sewage pipeline in the vicinity.
Toilet shame!
Tanzania has one of the world’s most inadequate human waste management systems, with the vast majority of people lacking decent toilets, according to surveys by some local and international organisations.Sewage disposal has not undergone meaningful development since 1999, leading to an alarming increase in the number of people answering the call of nature in the open.The organisations say the number of people lacking adequate sanitation is expected to increase further in the next four to five years.
According to the Geneva-based Water Supply & Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSC),
