what would you do to motive people in your street to utilise toilets ?
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These days, government inspectors on the subcontinent armed with pencils, tablets and smartphones have been out in force, combing the countryside — on the hunt for toilets, or rather the lack of them.
The effort is part of the Clean India Campaign launched late last year by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a business-friendly leader who pledged that every Indian household will have a toilet by 2019.
Custom, corruption and a plain old preference for nature has gotten in the way of Modi's Marshall Plan For Toilets.
"We have had a huge problem in the past with what we call 'ghost toilets,' " said Sandhya Singh, an official at the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation.
"The government has given money to build latrines, but we remain unsure whether they have been built at all or are reported as being built," Singh said. "We have also sunk funds into toilets that are not functional anymore."
Singh and other ministry bureaucrats are recording the locations and snapping photographs of commodes to ascertain whether they are working and used regularly. The effort is immense.
"We have set up a database where volunteers and officials can update all the information in real time," Singh said. "We are insisting on photographs to ensure no facility is reported twice. So far, the database already has information about 100,000 rural toilets."
The effort is part of the Clean India Campaign launched late last year by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a business-friendly leader who pledged that every Indian household will have a toilet by 2019.
Custom, corruption and a plain old preference for nature has gotten in the way of Modi's Marshall Plan For Toilets.
"We have had a huge problem in the past with what we call 'ghost toilets,' " said Sandhya Singh, an official at the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation.
"The government has given money to build latrines, but we remain unsure whether they have been built at all or are reported as being built," Singh said. "We have also sunk funds into toilets that are not functional anymore."
Singh and other ministry bureaucrats are recording the locations and snapping photographs of commodes to ascertain whether they are working and used regularly. The effort is immense.
"We have set up a database where volunteers and officials can update all the information in real time," Singh said. "We are insisting on photographs to ensure no facility is reported twice. So far, the database already has information about 100,000 rural toilets."
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