India has 60.4% people without access to toilet

60.4% people without access to toilet

According to the latest study, around 60% of Indians do not have access to clean, safer and private toilets. According to a report named ‘It’s No Joke – State of the World’s Toilets’ by Water Aid states that “If all 774 million people in India waiting for household toilets were made to stand in a line, the queue would stretch from Earth to the moon and beyond.”

As per the study that has unleashed on The World’s Toilet day, around 60 percent of the people of the  world’s second most populous nation India, struggles for access to private, safer and clean toilets.

The report also stated that “Since 1990, access has improved by 22.8 percentage points, putting India at seventh out of eight countries for improvement in South Asia. In South Asia, Nepal has seen the most improvement, followed by Pakistan and Bhutan. “Nearly 40 % of India’s children are stunted; this will affect both their life chances and the future prosperity of India. India also has high rates of maternal and newborn mortality linked to sepsis.”

Today, health is a serious crisis and in India more than 140,000 children younger than five years die each year in India due to diarrhea.

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Modi who  last year launched the mission of Swachh Bharat stands on this concern and notably draw concerns for a cleaner India in the coming years. Swachh Bharat that aims to ensure a toilet for every household by 2019 and to educate people about the long-term health and economic benefits of using a proper sanitation system, the report said that “by simply building the toilets won’t be enough.”

The report that also added “The equipment necessary to prevent infection during and after child birth is simple and inexpensive, but requires clean water and soap along with clean surroundings, which are difficult to achieve in an environment contaminated by open defecation and without good hygiene practices such as hand washing with soap by clinic staff and midwives.”

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