48,000 families without toilets
Ambika Pandit, TNN | Sep 1, 2013, 06.09 AM IST
NEW DELHI: Sanitation and hygiene emerge as serious concerns in the Delhi Human Development Report 2013. While 90% of households in Delhi have access to latrines within their homes, 7.2% use public toilets and the rest defecate in the open.
Citing data drawn from the 2011 Census, the report states: "In the context of an urban agglomerate like Delhi ...the provisioning of reliable sanitation facilities is also closely entwined with improving the security of women and children."
It states women and children who use open spaces for defecation are "more vulnerable to exploitation" . The district-wise data shows that around 20% of the households in New Delhi district in the heart of the city use public toilets.
"Close to half of the slum households did not have latrine facilities within their premises, according to Census 2011 data, which has important implications for the hygiene situation in and around slums. The slum households account for 10% of Delhi's total population. In absolute numbers 48,000 households were forced to defecate in the open," the report states.
Most respondents in the survey rated public toilet facilities as poor, with 54.5% rating them as below average or very poor. Women also expressed fear about going out to defecate along railway lines near slums.
To reinforce the need for well maintained public toilets the report cites a 2012 baseline survey under Delhi Government's flagship project, Mission Convergence. The survey on water, sanitation and hygiene was carried out across 19,683 households. It found that more than half of the slum children defecate in the open: "52% of the children living in slums and unauthorized colonies defecate in the open. This share is as high as 79% for children aged less than 3 years old. Amongst children above 3 years of age, 56% of the girls and 48% of boys defecate in the open," the report states.
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Ambika Pandit, TNN | Sep 1, 2013, 06.09 AM IST
NEW DELHI: Sanitation and hygiene emerge as serious concerns in the Delhi Human Development Report 2013. While 90% of households in Delhi have access to latrines within their homes, 7.2% use public toilets and the rest defecate in the open.
Citing data drawn from the 2011 Census, the report states: "In the context of an urban agglomerate like Delhi ...the provisioning of reliable sanitation facilities is also closely entwined with improving the security of women and children."
It states women and children who use open spaces for defecation are "more vulnerable to exploitation" . The district-wise data shows that around 20% of the households in New Delhi district in the heart of the city use public toilets.
"Close to half of the slum households did not have latrine facilities within their premises, according to Census 2011 data, which has important implications for the hygiene situation in and around slums. The slum households account for 10% of Delhi's total population. In absolute numbers 48,000 households were forced to defecate in the open," the report states.
Most respondents in the survey rated public toilet facilities as poor, with 54.5% rating them as below average or very poor. Women also expressed fear about going out to defecate along railway lines near slums.
To reinforce the need for well maintained public toilets the report cites a 2012 baseline survey under Delhi Government's flagship project, Mission Convergence. The survey on water, sanitation and hygiene was carried out across 19,683 households. It found that more than half of the slum children defecate in the open: "52% of the children living in slums and unauthorized colonies defecate in the open. This share is as high as 79% for children aged less than 3 years old. Amongst children above 3 years of age, 56% of the girls and 48% of boys defecate in the open," the report states.
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