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Indian here. Yes population is the biggest problem for us.Which naturally leads to many problems like this one. * I agree with author this is absolutely true f
by naanalla 13y ago
Indian here. Yes population is the biggest problem for us.Which naturally leads to many problems like this one.
* I agree with author this is absolutely true for slums like Mumbai. (But does not apply to whole India. Second tier urban areas scenario is not this bad )
* I agree that in most of rural area practice open defecation.
In general whey open defecation is in practiced,
* Since we have too many people even one bathroom in rural area per home is not sufficient(seriously)
* Attitude of people towards cleanliness.
IS GOVT DOING SOMETHING FOR THIS?
* Yes lots of schemes have come(more than 10-20 years back and still continuing) in its slowly picking up.
* The best scheme in my state(Karnataka)the govt is paying Rs 7000/- for each house to encourage them to construct toilet from 'gram panchayath'.
* Thanks to media and celebs who are getting involved more these days.
Yes we have problem, we need to solve it.
- killerpopiller 13y agoimho the overpopulation needs to be adressed the chinese way. I don't think that throwing tech at it will solve the problem. I remember vaguely, that one indian gov. wanted to sterilize slum inhabitants and wasn't reelected.
- krichman 13y agoAre you writing that they should have been pro-sterilisation? They could just round up and shoot all the slum inhabitants so they wouldn't need to wait an entire generation to be rid of them.
- killerpopiller 13y agochina has a one-child-only policy since 79. I thought that this is known http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-child_policy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-child_policy
- lostlogin 13y agoIs this for India? Or the world? I'll assume you mean world as that's somewhat less harsh and less NIMBY. Alternatively, education, good government and a decent economy and birth rates fall. And there is then the bonus of no fascist/pseudo communist population control bent.
- devdas 13y agoGlobally? It took a few decades for Europe (criminalise poverty, ship the poor to the US/Canada/Australia), and lose most poor people in a couple of wars, followed by a giant injection of foreign funds for reconstruction. India doesn't have the luxury of colonies, and emigrating from India is far harder than emigrating from mid-nineteenth century Europe was.
- userulluipeste 13y agoThe population is not a problem, the population is a resource. Of course, to be (more) valuable (than it is now) it has to receive some attention/investment. The sterilization of people that possess the potential of growing and becoming beneficial to society is, for the society as a whole, a form of self-mutilation.
- killerpopiller 13y agoI agree to certain degree, but the indian pop.growth is just not sustainable. Closing the eyes doesn't make it go away: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:India-demography.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:India-demography.png
- ragsagar 13y agoCan they construct decent toilet with 7000 Indian Rupees. A truck load of sand costs more than 7000Rs.
- srisa 13y agoCan they? I don't know. What I know is that you don't need a truck load of sand to construct a toilet.