37% government schools don’t have clean toilets: Survey
NEW DELHI: Thirty seven per cent government schools in Delhi do not have clean toilets leaving students with no option but to urinate out in the open, says a recent survey. The sample survey included 44 schools of MCD, NDMC and Delhi government. A total number of 318 toilets were surveyed.
Carried out by the NGO, CRY, and its nine partner organizations earlier this year and released last month, the survey showed that 21% of these schools had "major infrastructural flaws" such as blocked sewage systems, broken toilet doors and cracked walls. It also reported that many schools in the southwest district lacked buckets and mugs in their toilets and 24% even lacked a water supply. Of the remaining 76% schools that did have running water, 18% had a supply of contaminated water.
The survey also found that 15% of the 318 toilets that were reserved for school staff were in better condition than those for students and common staff.
The maximum number of schools and toilets covered in the survey was in the R.K. Puram, Vasant Vihar, Mahipalpur and Palam Enclave region of the city. Soha Moitra, regional director, CRY said the schools were chosen to offer a good representation of different parts of the city and different communities that the students attending them belong to.
The MCD allocated Rs. 1,606.7 crore to the education department in 2011-12, which was raised to Rs 1694.8 crore for 2012-13. When asked about the condition of sanitation in the schools, MCD spokesperson Yogendra Singh Mann said that work on the same was in progress. "It could be a problem of land availability. The school principals have been empowered to take action," he said.
The problem of sanitation is, however, not limited to the capital's government schools. According to a recent UNICEF and WHO joint monitoring programme report on drinking water and sanitation, 60% of the world's open defecators live in India. Though growing rapidly at 20 million new toilets per year, India's sanitation coverage is below 50%. At the current rate, according to the joint monitoring report, India will reach its millennium development goals only by 2054.
Source: Times of India
NEW DELHI: Thirty seven per cent government schools in Delhi do not have clean toilets leaving students with no option but to urinate out in the open, says a recent survey. The sample survey included 44 schools of MCD, NDMC and Delhi government. A total number of 318 toilets were surveyed.
Carried out by the NGO, CRY, and its nine partner organizations earlier this year and released last month, the survey showed that 21% of these schools had "major infrastructural flaws" such as blocked sewage systems, broken toilet doors and cracked walls. It also reported that many schools in the southwest district lacked buckets and mugs in their toilets and 24% even lacked a water supply. Of the remaining 76% schools that did have running water, 18% had a supply of contaminated water.
The survey also found that 15% of the 318 toilets that were reserved for school staff were in better condition than those for students and common staff.
The maximum number of schools and toilets covered in the survey was in the R.K. Puram, Vasant Vihar, Mahipalpur and Palam Enclave region of the city. Soha Moitra, regional director, CRY said the schools were chosen to offer a good representation of different parts of the city and different communities that the students attending them belong to.
The MCD allocated Rs. 1,606.7 crore to the education department in 2011-12, which was raised to Rs 1694.8 crore for 2012-13. When asked about the condition of sanitation in the schools, MCD spokesperson Yogendra Singh Mann said that work on the same was in progress. "It could be a problem of land availability. The school principals have been empowered to take action," he said.
The problem of sanitation is, however, not limited to the capital's government schools. According to a recent UNICEF and WHO joint monitoring programme report on drinking water and sanitation, 60% of the world's open defecators live in India. Though growing rapidly at 20 million new toilets per year, India's sanitation coverage is below 50%. At the current rate, according to the joint monitoring report, India will reach its millennium development goals only by 2054.
Source: Times of India
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