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WORLD TOILET DAY |
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Date-wise Events |
- November 19: Observed every
year
- October 02, 2013: Indian
Prime Ministerial candidate and the then Chief Minister of
Gujarat had said "Build toilets first and
temples later".
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Description |
- It is observed to appreciate the need for toilet for
everyone.
- About half of Indian population survives without proper
toilets.
- The main objective is to break the taboo around toilets
and draw attention to the global sanitation challenge.
- Although unthinkable for those living in wealthy
parts of the world, this is a harsh reality for one in three
people on this globe.
- Since its inception in 2001, World Toilet Day has become
an important platform to demand action from governments.
- So long as we continue to eat food, we shall continue to
shit.
- According to worldtoiletday.org:
- 1 gram of poo is home to 10 Million viruses, 1
Million bacteria, 1000 parasites & 100 worm eggs.
- Mahatma Gandhi had said in 1925 that "Sanitation is
more important than independence".
- About 2.5 billion people do not have a clean toilet
in the is world.
- Marwane of Germany said that Humans have a right to
Hygeine and to be protected from sickness.
- Märta Lauritzen of Sweden strongly feels that lack
of proper sanitation is a threat for education,
especially for girls.
- Ebony of Australia says that every day more than
4,000 young children die from sanitation-related
illness.
- Alka Pande of India says that more than half of 1.2
billion people in India live without toilets.
- Radha Reddy of India says that everyone has a right
to privacy and dignity.
- World Toilet Day seeks to bring to the forefront the
health and emotional consequences, as well as the
economic impact of inadequate sanitation.
- Access to proper sanitation, declared a human right,
has yet to become a reality for all.
- Building toilets in rural India was one of the major
promises Prime Minister Narendra Modi made during his speech
from the Red Fort ramparts in his first Independence Day
address on August 15, 2014. The government has since
claimed as of November, 2016 to have constructed around 80
lakh countryside toilets across India under Modi’s ambitious
Swachh Bharat mission.
- The construction of toilets is a major focal area for
the Swachh Bharat programme, which aims to make India “open
defecation-free” by 2019. It aims at constructing 12 crore
toilets in rural India by October 2019 at a projected cost
of Rs 1.96 lakh crore.
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