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[modern.fakir]

Want to contest panchayat polls in Bihar? First, install a toilet at your home



Madan Kumar,TNN | Aug 5, 2015, 07.51 PM IS

"The candidates willing to contest panchayat elections will have to give an affidavit that he/ she have toilets at his/ her individual homes, while filing nominations for the rural polls," Bihar's Panchayati Raj minister Vinod Prasad Yadav, who introduced the Bill in the assembly, told TOI.


PATNA: If you want to become Mukhiya, Pramukh, district board chairperson or even a ward member of your gram-panchayat by contesting panchayat polls in Bihar, you must have to construct a toilet at your individual home.

Bihar Legislative Assembly on Wednesday passed a legislation- the Bihar Panchayat Raj (Amendment) Bill, 2015, bringing some new provisions including making it mandatory for candidates contesting all level of panchayat raj elections to have toilets at their individual home by January 31, 2016.

"The candidates willing to contest panchayat elections will have to give an affidavit that he/ she have toilets at his/ her individual homes, while filing nominations for the rural polls," Bihar's Panchayati Raj minister Vinod Prasad Yadav, who introduced the Bill in the assembly, told TOI. Yadav said, the 'toilet at home' provision was incorporated in the Bill to ensure proper sanitation in the rural areas. "It has been noticed that people in villages, including women, have to go in open areas to relieve themselves due to lack of toilets at their home. It creates to unhygienic atmosphere in villages," he said.

"By introducing the 'toilet at home' provision, Bihar in fact has tried to imitate Gujarat which introduced similar provisions on October 1, 2014, a day before the nation-wide launch of 'Swachh Bharat Abhiyan' by Prime Minister Narendra Modi," said a senior government official.

However, Bihar's minister Yadav said he was not aware whether Gujarat had already made the toilet at home' provision mandatory for panchayat elections candidates.

Another important amendment in the Bihar Panchayat Raj Act will put a check on frequent move of 'no-confidence proposals' against the elected representatives of the three-tier Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs). "As per the existing provisions, no-confidence proposals can be brought against elected representatives like Mukhiya, Pramukh or district boar chairpersons after two years of their election and against after a gap of one year. In such situation, some elected persons was exposed to face three np-confidence motion during his/ her five years tenure. But henceforth, only one 'no-confidence' proposal can be brought against any elected persons during his five year tenure, that too only after two years of his/ her elections," the minister said.

The assembly also passed two other bills - Bihar State Universities (Amendment) Bill, 2015 and Aryabhatta Knowledge University (AKU) Bill, 2015- during the post-lunch session, which was marred by uproar created by opposition BJP members after Speaker Uday Narayan Choudhary rejected their demand for an adjournment motion to discuss the alleged medical scam to the tune of over Rs 100 crore in Bihar.

As per amendment in the Bihar State Universities Act, there would be a "selection committee" in each affiliated degree college to review appointment of all those teachers who were recruited before April 19, 2007, without the recommendation of the Bihar College Service Commission. The amendment in the AKU Act suggest that henceforth the appointment of vice-chancellor in the AKU would be done (by the chancellor) on the basis "effective advise" from the state government.

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...-toilet-at-your-home/articleshow/48363137.cms

 

[modern.fakir]

A step in the right direction....its high time politicians practice what they preach and we support this move by the governmenrt :biggthumpup:

 

[Tyrion Lannister]

inka gnd toilets nae pura kr skte inko to japan apni air way se nae guzarne deta k sale gnde bht hen[hilar]

 

[modern.fakir]

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inka gnd toilets nae pura kr skte inko to japan apni air way se nae guzarne deta k sale gnde bht hen[hilar]

 

[modern.fakir]

[h=1]Air India Flight Forced To Turn Around After All Four Toilets Become Clogged[/h] By Mary Beth Quirk June 3, 2014

(John Kittelsrud)

You know those signs in airplane lavatories that ask you to kindly not flush anything down the drain except toilet paper? Passengers on Air India planes may or may not be adhering to those polite instructions, after a plane was forced to turn around when all four of its toilets clogged.

A more than eight-hour flight to Frankfurt returned to the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi after three hours in the air, simply because none of the toilets were working, reports the Times of India.


“The flushes were unserviceable so the plane had to return to Delhi,” an Air India official confirmed. “The passengers could not board another aircraft since night curfew in Frankfurt would have kicked in by the time the alternate plane would have reached there.”


So whose fault is it? It’s unclear what caused the mass clogging on this particular flight, but airline officials said they’ve faced similar scenarios in the past — and they’re blaming passengers who toss whatever they get for free down the toilet.


An officials explained that a New York to Delhi flight faced the same exact problem, and crew ended up having to ration the use of one working toilet for passengers. When the plane was serviced afterward, the culprit was discovered in its bowels.


“Everything made available to passengers for free was found flushed down the toilet,” another official said. “Dozens of small blankets and pillows, items in overnight pouches such as socks, slippers and towels were flushed down.”


This makes no sense to me, as everything I’ve ever gotten for free is sitting in a corner of my apartment gathering dust, just so I can remember that one time I got free shampoo at that nice hotel in Detroit. I might need it someday.
Clogged loos force Air India Frankfurt flight to return [Times of India]

inka gnd toilets nae pura kr skte inko to japan apni air way se nae guzarne deta k sale gnde bht hen[hilar]

 

[Suhana]

Shabash toilet banao or apni izzat dunia k samne lutte huye bachao..

 

[asifA1]

India basically doesn't have a military budget to sustain any war (short term) secondly, the mass most corruption interception unauthorized use of funds of false fabrication information goes into propunganda & lastly if a Indian has sufficient toilet access maybe broaden his her mind to accept peaceful countries sorrunding India & make better use big cloud data into how much lavatory got spilled on the roads versus that went into proper pvc drainages pipes & made surrounding environment better for ladies to walk in high heels & more secure besides getting oops raped !

 

[only_truths]

The usual addendum is missing !!!

" Pakistan offers its expertise to build these toilets. With love from Modern fakir as always ?"

 

[jimpack]

This idiotic fa***k thinks he is one expert in this forum. Just copy pasting of article from websites and then trying show how intellectual he is by making some sarcastic comments, this does not help, it only shows what sadist a**s h*ole mindset that he has. Talk something positive, we can debate but by this attitude god help you and people around you

 

[RAW AGENT]

This idiotic fa***k thinks he is one expert in this forum. Just copy pasting of article from websites and then trying show how intellectual he is by making some sarcastic comments, this does not help, it only shows what sadist a**s h*ole mindset that he has. Talk something positive, we can debate but by this attitude god help you and people around you

modern faqir's love for toilet is commendable , we should thank this great man . after all this great man is reminding us to how we should achieve our targets despite his shabby state of the country pakistan he is promoting india's cause .

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[modern.fakir]

India's trouble with toilets : Strategy not working : Toi (ache din:)

India's trouble with toilets: Government sanitation drives fail to sway those who believe going outdoors is more wholesome

In rural India, a strong cultural resistance to the build-up and disposal of excrement is also leading to rejection of new latrines



LEILA NATHOO

LUCKNOW

Friday 21 August 2015





In the lanes of Parvar Poorab, a peaceful North Indian village set amid monsoon-soaked fields, Savita stares suspiciously at the concrete lavatory outside her home. “The government employee who constructed it told me we had to use it now and we shouldn’t go in the open”, says the slight and sombre 22-year-old who goes by only one name.

“But it’s better to go in the open. The pit is very small and will fill up very soon. We only use it in an emergency or at night. I like going outside.”
Millions of Indians like Savita continue to defecate in the open despite having a household toilet, frustrating government hopes to wean more than 600 million of its citizens off the practice and questioning the assumptions behind its mass toilet-building programme.

In rural India, a strong cultural resistance to the build-up and disposal of excrement, and the view that going outdoors is more wholesome, is leading to rejection of the new latrines.
The most pressing reason to banish the practice, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi has vowed to do by 2019, is its effect on public health – spreading infectious diseases and stunting children’s growth by circulating faecal bacteria in the environment.
In this densely packed country, even people using toilets will still be exposed to germs unless everyone in the community abandons their routine of trudging to the nearest field, pond or railway track to relieve themselves.


Delhi has for decades tackled the problem by subsidising toilets for poor households, with the underlying assumption that poverty rather than attitude is the main reason that people are not building their own. This year the government is spending about 350m on the project, but poorer countries including neighbouring Bangladesh have made far greater strides in reducing open defecation without as much subsidy.

Even on the measure of toilet construction, India’s progress has been slow. Census figures show that between 2001 and 2011, the proportion of families without a latrine actually fell from 63 to 53 per cent. Research suggests that many households who acquired toilets during this time have not abandoned open defecation entirely. A recent survey of rural north India by the Delhi-based RICE Institute found more than 40 per cent of families with a working toilet have at least one member who still defecates in the open.
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In Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state and with an open defecation rate among the worst in the country, officials acknowledge that they are not making inroads, even in priority villages like Parvar Poorab.
“We are not facing any problem in the case of construction, but the major issue of toilet usage is our challenge, and regarding this we are helpless,” says Santosh Kumar Singh, who oversees the sanitation drive in the state.
Shopkeeper Puttan Lal paid for his own toilet, embellished with tiles and a curtain, three months ago for his wife and young children. But even shelling out Rs32,000 (311) – more than 10 times the cost of simple but effective latrines used all over the developing world – has not persuaded him of its merits. “Everybody is using it except for me. I go [outside] every day when I go for my morning walk,” he says matter-of-factly.
Like most of his neighbours, Mr Lal’s enthusiasm for having a toilet stemmed from convenience rather than any awareness of the health benefits.
His preference for a much more expensive model with a septic tank, instead of a basic offering with a pit that must be emptied manually, highlights what experts believe is a key reason why Indians persist in defecating in the open.

The region of Uttar Pradesh has one of the worst open defecation ratesin India (Getty)
“Emptying a pit in any other developing country… doesn’t carry asocial stigma in the same way as it does in India,” says RICE’s Sangita Vyas, referring to Hinduism’s rigid caste system which prescribes that dealing with human waste is the responsibility only of those at the very bottom of the social hierarchy.

“Anybody who is of a higher caste would find it unthinkable do it themselves, and at the same time… people from lower castes are trying to avoid doing this type of work because it’s associated with their past and oppression,” she says.
In Parvar Poorab, 30-year-old Ranjita, who has a satellite dish and a television in her small brick bungalow, will only build a toilet for her family once she can afford one with a pit big enough that it does not have to be emptied for decades. “I want a good quality one, not a government one. I will wait to get a better one,” she says.

Convincing Indians of the benefits of any kind of toilet has been a secondary priority in official sanitation drives – the Modi government’s “Clean India Mission” has halved the spending on information, education and communication activities to 8 per cent of the total budget. Once that money filters down through the states to individual districts, it is up to local officials to decide how best to spend it.
Government-built toilets in Parvar Poorab, for example, are emblazoned with bright red and yellow painted slogans extolling their health and safety benefits. But experts say only a concerted campaign to change behaviour and beliefs, with sustained face-to-face contact, stands a chance of making a difference.

“Giving people money is not a very good idea for sanitation. We should never have gone down that path,” says Nitya Jacob, the head of policy at WaterAid India, who is among many who think the government’s incentive-based approach has actually hampered progress.

People need to consider toilets as aspirational items and build them themselves after understanding the benefits, rather than perceiving them as handouts, Jacob says. But the government has pressed ahead with toilet-building – a visible, easy-to-measure policy – in the absence of any consensus on how to influence attitudes.

In Uttar Pradesh, Santosh Kumar Singh is training community motivators who will fan out into villages like Parvar Poorab to break down community barriers to toilet use. “We have started [focusing on behaviour change], but it is too late,” he said.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...oing-outdoors-is-more-wholesome-10466041.html

 

[modern.fakir]

Re: India's trouble with toilets : Strategy not working : Toi (ache din:)

what is this ??...we will lodge a strong protest for not coming up with a proper strategy for toilets in india!!:biggthumpup:

 

[modern.fakir]

Re: India's trouble with toilets : Strategy not working : Toi (ache din:)

Toilets Could Protect Women In India From Getting Raped

Posted: 09/03/2014 3:46 pm EDT Updated: 09/03/2014 6:59 pm EDT

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A reeling Indian village where two teen cousins were brutally gang raped and hanged may be able to sleep more soundly now that new toilets have been installed in the area.
Last May, the 14- and 15-year-old girls from Katra village in Uttar Pradesh state were gang raped and hanged from a mango tree in the middle of the night while they were going out in the fields to relieve themselves, the Associated Press reported. Outraged residents protested and blamed police inaction for the crime, but a nonprofit that provides sanitation to the poor isn’t going to wait around for corrupt authorities to reform their laws.
Sulabh International recently installed 108 toilets in the impoverished area instead, the BBC reported.


Every 30 minutes a woman in India is raped, and it’s often the impoverished women who relieve themselves in the open who are targeted.
Across India, more than 600 million people (more than 53 percent of the population) don’t have access to private toilets, according to the World Bank, an inconvenience that becomes particularly pernicious when women urinate or defecate late at night or at dawn to avoid being embarrassed by going in broad daylight.
Advocates, like nonprofit Sulabh International, believe that making sanitation available could be key in curbing sexual assaults around India. So, after the teens’ rapes and murders rocked the area, Sulabh decided to support the rural village andput the new latrines there on Sunday, the BBC reported.
"Absence of toilets in houses, particularly in rural areas, is behind such incidents ofrapes and sexual assaults in villages," Sulabh founder Bindeshwar Pathak told the Hindu. "This campaign is the most fitting tribute to the girls whose death triggered a national debate on women’s right to safe toilets."
Since 1970, Sulabh has brought its environmentally friendly and affordable toilets to 1.2 million homes and has installed 8,000 such public latrines, according to the organization’s website.
The group’s mission is twofold.
It hopes to better protect poor women without private latrines and to empower manual scavengers. Hundreds of thousands of low-caste Indians are forced to clean human waste with their bare hands, despite recent laws prohibiting such demeaning and hazardous work.
Though the punishment can be severe -- four Indian men were sentenced to deathafter they took turns raping a 23-year-old who eventually died from sustained injuries -- such crimes are still rampant in the country because the police force is so corrupt.
The police in India are notoriously understaffed, underpaid and unfamiliar with how to address crimes against women, The New York Times reported last January. Victims also often fear police officers themselves, who have been known to assault women when they report crimes, according to the Sydney Morning Herald.
Pathak estimates that India still needs 120 million additional toilets, and hopes the government will follow his lead.
But some officials aren’t optimistic that such an undertaking will happen.
Back in 2002, the federal government launched a massive sanitation project in Uttar Pradesh, but only 22 percent of the state's households had toilets as of 2011, according to the AP.
"This data clearly proves that the public money has been flushed away in the toilets," Alok Ranjan, a senior government official, told the news outlet.
Learn more about Sulabh International and how you can get involved here.