India Has the Worlds Longest Line for the Toilet ( Wall Street Journal Reports)

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India Has the World’s Longest Line for the Toilet

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• VIBHUTI AGARWAL

If the 774 million people living without a household toilet in India stood in line, they would stretch from the Earth to the moon, and maybe beyond, a report released to mark World Toilet Day showed Thursday.
Clearing the line would take at least 5,892 years, if each person took a minimum of four minutes to use the toilet, according to the report by WaterAid, a water and sanitation nonprofit headquartered in London said.
India continues have the largest number of people without toilets at home and the highest number of people defecating in the open, the report titled, “It’s No Joke: The State of the World’s Toilets 2015,” says.

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But despite this, it doesn’t feature in the list of 25 countries with the least safe and hygienic latrines per person. India, though, is far from out of the woods in terms of safe toilet habits.
More than 770 million people in India still don’t have access to improved home toilets, more than double China’s 329 million people who don’t have a toilet in their house.
And nearly half of India’s population–569 million people–relieve themselves in the open, sometimes even when public facilities are available.

People in rural areas often go out in the open because of habit or cultural preference. Some villages feel toilets are meant for old people, newly-married girls or children, others believe open defecation is a way of staying fit because people worldwide defecate in the open and India has the highest concentration of them — 173 people go outside for every square kilometer.
“That ratio would be the same as 500 people having to defecate in the open in the Square Mile of the City of London, or 15,000 people in Manhattan, New York City,” the report said.

India’s neighbors have far fewer people defecating in the open, with 61 people a square kilometer in Nepal going outside and 32 people a square kilometer in Pakistan.
A lack of proper sanitation in India poses a serious threat to the health of children, where hundreds of thousands die every year because of diseases transmitted through human waste.


More than 140,000 under-fives die in India each year from diarrhea, according to the report. Nearly 40% of children are stunted, when height falls short of that expected for a child’s age, affecting their life chances. And the country also has high rates of maternal and newborn mortality linked to sepsis or infection as a result of open defecation.

Women who go into fields in the early mornings or late at night to defecate are also vulnerable to sexual assault or attacks by wild animals, the report found.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi last year launched the Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan or Clean India Mission to, among other things, eradicate open defecation and build an indoor toilet for every home by 2019.
But simply building the toilets won’t be enough.
“What will be absolutely crucial is getting local, state and national government to make this a priority, and creating the cultural shift that will ensure that once the toilets are built they are used – by everyone,” the WaterAid report added.

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[Dawood Magsi]

Indian union only works for few so called upper class Hindu Families aka Baniya, who control everything there, it has no future whatsoever, west is only promoting them as a counter balance to China and cheap call center labourers.

 

[sangeen]

And some of them shiiiittt in this forum also....[hilar]

 

[akhandbharat]

pakistan is world famous for abuse of it's children ,

[h=1]Kasur reveals the ugly truth about child abuse in Pakistan[/h]

August 11, 2015 @ 4:00 PM
by Omar R Quraishi
Published in Must Read
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The shocking child abuse scandal in Kasur unearthed by a brave reporter of The Nation will maybe now jolt us awake so that we can see this monster prevalent in our society.
The scale of the Kasur scandal is horrific — 400 videos of some 280 children who were forced to have sex while being filmed — and the manner in which the local police and MP tried to cover it up is depressing.
The tapes that were made were then used to blackmail the parents of the victims into keeping quiet and into giving money to the paedophilia ring. These tapes were also being sold to locals in the town for Rs 50 and even, according to one report, were being sold to paedophile websites overseas.
Read more: Pakistan’s largest ever child abuse scandal comes to light in Punjab town of Kasur
That it happened for so long — since 2009 — and was kept under wraps and even the media was unaware of it till now is cause for concern.
The local MPA is believed to have covered it up and even used his power and influence to ensure that the local police don’t follow it up and even managed to secure the release — before the scandal came out in the media — of one of the primary accused.

The matter is now being investigated and — mainly because of media pressure (including on social media) — 15 people have already been arrested and charged. The pressure from civil society and the media will have to be vigorous and consistent if we are to ensure that the victims and their families get justice in this case.

The local administration officials, police and especially the area MPA should also be probed under the premise that how could they have not known all this was happening for so long. The state should seek to charge them with deflection of duty at the very least.
[h=1]Ugly truth revealed[/h]
Kasur had revealed the truth about paedophilia in Pakistan and it is an ugly one.
First, that paedophilia is far more prevalent in society than we are willing to admit or recognize.
Second, it is often done in an organized manner and those agents of the state whose job it is to protect citizens and uphold the law such as police and legislators do the very opposite. In the case of Kasur the police actively sought to stifle and muzzle the protests carried out by the victims and even went so far as to arrest the one villager who wanted to expose the scandal to the media.

Third, there is an active market for paedophile paraphernalia especially videos and pictures and it exists in Pakistan. We can either pretend that ut doesn’t exisyexist and continue burying our heads in the sand or we can wake up and see this clear and present danger ro our children and act against it.
Fourth, many of us ignore this activity which may be present in society as a whole. Take the case of the notorious serial killer and paedophile Javed Iqbal who confessed and was convicted of raping and killing over 100 boys in Lahore in the late 1990s. He was caught several times and even sent to jail for sodomy but always managed to get out of jail.

Javed Iqbal – who sexually assaulted and killed over 100 children in Pakistan in the late 1990s.

Even when he was eventually caught, it was he who surrendered himself at the offices of Jang in Lahore. Later police found his house in a congested part of Lahore complete with two vats of acid in which he would dissolve his victims bodies after raping and killing them. And all this happened without any of his neighbours even bothering to report him to the police even for suspicious activity let alone murder.
Let’s hope the Javed Iqbala of Kasur get what they deserve. If any deserves to hang at all it should be the perpetrators of such horrific acts.

 

[Taramasih]

most of the pakistanis undergo through this abuse in childhood but due to shame of being exposed infront of society everybody hides the abuse .