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Uttar Pradeshi villagers raze Narendra Modi's Swacch Bharat loos since they prefer open fields to defecate.

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Post by Thanjai Nalankilli Thu Jan 14, 2016 9:11 pm

BAREILLY: Used to the "comfortable fields", 90 families quietly demolished the toilets inside their house that was built under the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (SBA), preferring to go back to defecating in the open. Authorities, who sent notices to these "defaulters", reckon there may be many more in India's rural and semi-urban belts doing this, unable to break decades of habit. A bunch of others had removed the toilet seat and converted the space into a small store room.

Building toilets in rural India was one of the major promises Prime Minister Narendra Modi had made during his Independence Day speech last year.

The government has since moved fast on this and now claims to have constructed lakhs of toilets in India's countryside.

But if the Bareillly experience, probably the first such incident of its kind that has come to light, is any indication, there is a tough job ahead for India's Swachh campaigners. According to a World Health Organisation and UNICEF report of 2014, already 82% of the 1 billion people practising open defecation in the world live in India. With 597 million, India holds the top slot, leaving the number 2 in this dubious list, Indonesia (54 million), far behind. Pakistan (41 million), Nigeria (39 million) and Ethiopia (34 million) take up the third, fourth and fifth places.


http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bareilly/UP-villagers-prefer-open-fields-raze-Swachh-loos/articleshow/50582495.cms

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Post by Thanjai Nalankilli Thu Jan 14, 2016 9:14 pm

I recall Vakavaka Pakapaka has recommended on several occasions that defecating in the open fields is a healthy way to defecate. I think Vakavaka's rationale is something along the lines of defecation in the open constitutes being in harmony with nature. So i am sure Vakavaka must be very happy that the Uttar Pradeshi villagers are following his recommendation.

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