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Need

ACCORDING TO 'WHO' AND 'UNICEF' ESTIMATES:

  • 60% of Indian population defecates in the open

  • Annually 2.4 million Indian children die of diarrhea, caused by open defecation

  • GOI spends INR 12 billion on rectifying ailments resulting from improper sanitation

  • 78% girls in rural India drop out of school owing to inadequate sanitation facilities

  • Indian Railways spends INR 350 Crore annually on rectifying rail corrosion

Open Defecation

  • Only 31% of our country's population has access to proper sanitation facilities

  • Only 11% of the Indian rural families dispose child excretion safely

  • 80% of children's solid excretion is left in the open or thrown into the garbage

  • Over 75% of our country's population has access to Mobile Phones but basic Sanitation is a remote dream!

Untreated Human Waste

  • Aesthetic nuisance

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  • Contamination of food, fruits and vegetables

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  • Organic pollution of water bodies

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  • Diseases – Viral Gastroenteritis, Typhoid, Cholera, Jaundice, Diarrhea, Viral Hepatitis, Malaria and Chicken Gunya

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