Hygiene, Sanitation and Civic Sense – Inputs Required on Root Causes
Thank you for taking the time to share issues related to Hygiene, Sanitation and Civic Sense in India.
These are some of the issues outlined by you:
1 People spitting on the road
2 People throwing garbage in public areas
3 No provision of public toilets in rural India
4 Lack of clean public toilets
5 Lack of cleaning and manning of public toilets
6 Large portion of the population defecate in the open
7 People urinating in public places
8 Household garbage is thrown on the roads
9 Garbage dumps are not cleared regularly
10 Contamination of water due to unregulated industrial waste
11 Rivers / ponds / beaches being are used for cleaning, bathing, washing utensils, bathing animals etc. with nobody to question
12 No segregation of dry and wet waste
13 There is a large network of open sewerage
14No regular water supplies in most residential areas
15 People smoke openly in public areas
16 Public transport is very dirty – inside and outside
17 Lack of clean and enough sitting spaces in areas like railway stations, government hospitals etc.
If there are some issues missing, kindly post it as a comment to this post. Let us move forward and root cause these so we can figure out what is driving these issues on Hygiene, Sanitation and Civic Sense.
Once we know the Root Causes, we will start the Solutions discussion in a separate post.
Thank you again for your participation.
Rajendra Pratap Gupta
Bharatiya Janata Party more