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Swachh Bharat Mission has created a buzz in the urban areas about the need for sanitation. But A systemic plan to clean India is not yet in place. It is not still much different from Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan and the Total Sanitation Campaign of the past. At a broader level, It means designing sewer systems with the appropriate slope; connecting each house to the sewer drain; setting up a sewage treatment plant and so on. The reality is that there are towns that have sewer drains but no treatment plant, and still others where the sewer drains and plant both exist but the houses have not been connected to the drain. What was difficult was to build systems to manage the toilets, keep them in working condition on a daily basis and ensure that the waste, fæcal and other solid, was properly disposed off. Building systems, however, does not come easy to governments in India. Cities like Gurgaon had no sewer system till 30 years after it came into existence and which still does not have an adequate city-wide sewer system, is ample testimony to this cultural disability.
The other problems can be manifold. Firstly , The budgetary spending for the clean India campaign has been reduced from Rs 4,260 crore in 2014-15 to Rs 2,625 crore in the latest budget, hoping to meet the funding gap through a Swachh Bharat cess and corporate social responsibility contributions, and by coaxing states to chip in. This makes the fund flow uncertain.
Secondly, there is no assessment of the magnitude of the challenge. The only data available for Swachh Bharat is about the number of toilets built and the money spent. Of the six crore toilets constructed in the past one year, 1.3 crore are defunct, according to media reports. Other requirements like sewerage, waste treatment and disposal, and water supply have not been made available along with toilets.
Thirdly , Concepts of sanitation/cleanliness are deeply rooted in a society’s cultural values. Some experts even opine that Indians only bother about ritual purity. However, public health experts are unanimous that sanitation, or lack of it, is linked to infant mortality, malnutrition, cognitive development and economic productivity. Three lakh children are lost to diarrhoea every year. States have yet to realise the importance of sanitation. It is a challenge which requires a comprehensive and integrated strategy involving state as well as civil soceity
Fourthly , Any formal, structured system requires the ability to plan for the future. This is not a strength that Indians can boast of. A well-oiled machinery for the implementation of any plan has to be ensured. It is this ability to design systems and build protocols that is missing in the Swachh Bharat
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