KOPPAL/SHIKRAWA, India - Every morning around dawn, dozens of people gather by the dusty banks of a stream snaking through Shikrawa village, two hours south of India’s capital, New Delhi, to do the same thing: defecate in the open.
But interviews with over half a dozen surveyors involved in the World Bank-supported study, and two participating researchers, all raised significant concerns with the methodology of the survey, and its findings. In 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the “Swachh Bharat,” or “Clean India” campaign and vowed to eliminate open defecation nationwide in five years.
Data from the World Bank-supported National Annual Rural Sanitation Survey that concluded in February shows that only about 10% of rural Indians defecate in the open. The survey was conducted using funds from a $1.5 billion World Bank loan for Swachh Bharat. The ministry “categorically dismisses and denies the claims of the two RICE researchers,” it said, without elaborating.
A NARSS surveyor in western Rajasthan state said surveyors would mark a village as ODF - for open defecation-free - even if they spotted faeces on the ground or people defecating outside — a violation of government guidelines.
Official response from MDWS to recent Reuters story about the Swachh Bharat Mission
it's a marked increase even if status of swatch Bharat abhiyan remaining same without improvement, taking into account of the vast generation of waste in the country, as it signifies efforts to clean up shows considerable improvement!
Modi may be more murky.
Extraordinarily idiotic reporting even by standards. 'Many people in north and south India told Reuters that a lack of toilets near fields where farmers spend their day' Somebody traveling in the wilderness would defecate in the open if nature calls.
Prime Minister Modi is still in power even after losing the air war with Pakistan? Amazing. He must have old friends in power that are as old as India’s warplanes.
Best is he attempted to make such 'Cleaner India' which he succeeded too in this short period! Nobody gave any shit before that..
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