Who is responsible for the mess??
[h=1]29% Swachh Bharat toilets rxist only on paper, another 36% unusable: Survey[/h]October 02, 2016 09:30
A survey of 7,500 rural households has found that 29% of Swachh Bharat toilets exist only on paper and of those that have been built, 36% are unusable.
The survey, conducted by Accountability Initiative at the Centre for Policy Research in December 2015, across 10 districts in five states. The states included Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Bihar.
The survey took the government's achievement list from the Swachh Bharat website and went about trying to find the beneficiaries. The first roadblock it hit was that many names on the achievement list were mentioned twice.
"The government needs to institute random auditing of the achievement list and also employ third party surveys to ensure accuracy of numbers," Yamini Aiyar of Accountability Initiative told Huffington Post.
Of the ten districts surveyed, the best performing was Satara in Maharashtra, which has been known for its sanitation achievements. The worst of the ten districts was Nalanda in Bihar, home turf of chief minister Nitish Kumar.
http://news.rediff.com/commentary/2...sable-survey/6adbd632328c599fef638b287fac6905
[h=1]29% Swachh Bharat toilets rxist only on paper, another 36% unusable: Survey[/h]October 02, 2016 09:30
A survey of 7,500 rural households has found that 29% of Swachh Bharat toilets exist only on paper and of those that have been built, 36% are unusable.
The survey, conducted by Accountability Initiative at the Centre for Policy Research in December 2015, across 10 districts in five states. The states included Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Bihar.
The survey took the government's achievement list from the Swachh Bharat website and went about trying to find the beneficiaries. The first roadblock it hit was that many names on the achievement list were mentioned twice.
"The government needs to institute random auditing of the achievement list and also employ third party surveys to ensure accuracy of numbers," Yamini Aiyar of Accountability Initiative told Huffington Post.
Of the ten districts surveyed, the best performing was Satara in Maharashtra, which has been known for its sanitation achievements. The worst of the ten districts was Nalanda in Bihar, home turf of chief minister Nitish Kumar.
http://news.rediff.com/commentary/2...sable-survey/6adbd632328c599fef638b287fac6905
