New Delhi: The slogan of cleanliness in India is very old, but still a large population of the country is forced to spend its life amidst the filth. According to the 2011 census, national sanitation coverage is 46.9 percent, while in rural areas this average is just 30.7 percent. Public toilets are also not in proper quantity here, due to which a large population is forced to defecate in our cities. Similarly, about 40 percent of people in the country do not have access to potable clean water. Lack of cleanliness is a big challenge in the country because it spreads fatal diseases and has worst effect is on children.
In various national and global forums, child hygiene has been considered very important for children's health and their physical, mental development, but unfortunately, more than 20 percent of children aged 14 in India have unsafe water, inadequate sanitation or Due to insufficient sanitation, they either remain ill or fall victim to death. Similarly, 90 percent of the deaths due to diarrhea due to lack of cleanliness are children below the age of five years. Cleanliness is also related to education. The absence of toilets in schools adversely affects the education of children, especially girls. According to the DICE Report 2013-14, about 20 percent of primary schools in the country still do not have separate toilets for girls. Due to this, girls have to face embarrassment many times and sometimes these girls also become victims of people of criminal tendencies.
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The overall sanitation campaign program was started by the government in 1999, whose main objective was to bring complete sanitation in rural India and to end open defecation by 2012. In this, special emphasis has been laid on sanitation facilities in homes, schools, and Anganwadi. Under the cleanliness drive, the Panchayats at the local level have been entrusted with the responsibility of providing drinking water, sanitation and hygiene to the children overall in village schools, Aganwadis, community buildings, health centers, and homes, but this program will Fail to achieve the objectives. The main reason for the failure of this program was that before making this program it was thought that if people were provided facilities, then people would use them and the problem would be eliminated, but it completely ignored the improvement in sanitation practices. Gone, the problem remains as it is.
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