When foreign tourists come to the Taj Mahal, Hongbao and Minahi Temple through the garbage dump, bypass the sewage on the street, cover their noses and avoid the excrement on the street corner, although the magnificent buildings are fascinating, there is little romance left in their hearts.
The reporter found that places of interest, hotels, public institutions and private houses in India are relatively clean and tidy, while the parts outside the walls, buildings and houses under the management of public institutions are a dirty, chaotic and poor world.
The poor sanitation in India is mainly reflected in three aspects: poor sanitation, littering and not cleaning up in time; The water quality is poor and the arsenic content in the water exceeds the standard. It often happens that foreign tourists have stomachache after drinking local water. In recent years, the news that drinking water contains "super bacteria" has been constantly breaking out. The situation of defecation can be seen everywhere, streets and lanes, city walls, rural fields, rivers and lakes ... everywhere can be "public toilets".
India's Economic Times said that the Indian Planning Commission acknowledged that 60 years after India's independence, half of the population still solved the problem of open defecation. According to the census, the population of India now exceeds1200 million, of which only 46.9% live in houses with toilets. Agence France-Presse said that about 654.38 billion households in India have no toilets. According to a recent report by the World Health Organization and UNICEF, more than 58% of the Indian population defecates outdoors, accounting for about 3/5 of the global outdoor population. Jerram Ramesh, Cabinet Minister of the Ministry of Rural Development of India, also admitted that India has become the "capital of defecation" in the world, and the railway system with daily passenger traffic of 1 1 10,000 passengers is "the largest open-air toilet in the world".
Two factors make it difficult for India to get rid of the problems in the field of public health. The first thing to bear the brunt is that public health investment has been insufficient for many years, which has led to the backwardness of health infrastructure. The Indian government's budget for fiscal years 20 12 to 20 13 shows that the military expenditure has increased by 17% compared with the previous fiscal year, while the budget for public health and family welfare only accounts for 0.34% of GDP. Statistics show that there are currently about 654.38+0.5 billion public toilets in various parts of India. In some slums in Mumbai, the economic center, an average of 8 1 person * * * uses a toilet, and in some places, 273 people * * * use a toilet. Secondly, influenced by traditional ideas, public health awareness is weak. Thousands of years of civilization and religious heritage have made India's caste system and hierarchy deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Garbage, especially urine and urine, is unclean, and upper caste people will never touch it, or even avoid talking about it. Generally speaking, Park Jung-soo, who is in charge of garbage removal and excrement cleaning, is a low caste. They are at the bottom of society, weaving baskets on their heads to remove garbage and cleaning up excrement manually. Low job and poor income. Naturally, no one wants to engage in sanitation work.
In order to improve the backwardness of public health, the Indian government has taken measures to increase investment, improve facilities and raise awareness. The Indian government has also launched the "National Health Campaign", focusing on increasing health facilities, improving environmental sanitation and creating a clean public environment. The Times of India quoted jerram Ramesh as saying that the government intends to completely improve the health situation in India within 10 years. In the next two years, 654.38+million ecological toilets will be built in several villages with 28 million US dollars, and it will cost about 654.38+2 billion US dollars to replace squatting toilets in 50,000 train carriages of the railway system with new ecological toilets.
India has indeed made a lot of efforts in raising health awareness and advocating health concepts. In order to promote the toilet culture, Haryana launched the campaign "No Wife Without Toilet", encouraging women to refuse suitors who can't provide houses with toilets. Bihar also put forward the slogan: the bathroom in the house is the best dowry for the daughter.