By: Rhythma Kaul/Manoj Sinha/Manoj Choudhary, Hindustan Times
Not just hygiene, the mission to build toilets, under government of India’s Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) also improved people’s health.
“Very few cases of diarrhoea, vomiting and fever have been reported among people since we started using toilets in our village. The district commissioner had explained the health hazards of defecating in the open, and we can see the difference now that we are using proper toilets,” says Bornali Bassa, 34, a farmer from Choladhara village in the Sivasagar district of Assam.
Lakwa block in the district, which now has 8,506 households, previously had toilets in only 25% of households.
“Of these, barely 50% had sanitary toilets with proper sewage systems. The rest were merely bamboo-walled pits. Within a year of implementation of the programme, 5,319 toilets were constructed,” says Virendra Mittal, district commissioner, Sivasagar. Read more
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