Sulabh liberates 60,000 scavengers, tots up $32 Mn revenue: UNDP
New Delhi: Sulabh International, a 38-year-old movement promoting low-cost safe sanitation in the country, has liberated over 60,000 scavengers, said a report by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) released Tuesday.
The report, focusing on the various strategies adopted across the world to engage the poor, additionally said Sulabh's revenues reached $32 million in 2005, with approximately $5 million in surplus.
Sulabh maintains 6,500 public pay per-use toilets and by 2006, had installed 1.4 million household toilets. An estimated 10 million people used its facilities across the country, the report said.
"The public toilets run by Sulabh break even within eight to nine months," it added. "Facilities in prominent places were highly profitable."
There is ample scope for replication and even scaling up of the Sulabh model that its founder Bindheshwar Pathak started in 1970, UNDP said.
"State governments that used to invite Sulabh into single-party tenders have now started inviting competitive bids to build and run public toilets," it noted.
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Comment 1: The report says a lot about sulab international but it reveals a truth that almost 70 % to 80% of the commuters do not use the toilets it is either they try to reach their destination for if they are in need of a toilet say it may be for the sake of urination too.
The urban people have developed a habit of using their own toilets it may be at home or at their place of work.thus avoiding to use public conveniences ( corporation / private ) for the reasons:
1] non availability of toilets at places when they required.
2] needed to pay for the use
3] unhygienic environment {corporation / private toilets}
etc.,
The above reasons are core requirement which are to be reviewed in the process of reforming public conservancy .
government should over come all the above reasons and make it possible for the commuters to use the toilets at public places ( corporation / private )
By doing so a lot of communicable disease could be avoided .
Diabetic patients along the country would be put to grief for their urinal requirement, which is a day today problem for the rest of their life.
Posted by : murugesh97 - Wednesday, July 02, 2008
The urban people have developed a habit of using their own toilets it may be at home or at their place of work.thus avoiding to use public conveniences ( corporation / private ) for the reasons:
1] non availability of toilets at places when they required.
2] needed to pay for the use
3] unhygienic environment {corporation / private toilets}
etc.,
The above reasons are core requirement which are to be reviewed in the process of reforming public conservancy .
government should over come all the above reasons and make it possible for the commuters to use the toilets at public places ( corporation / private )
By doing so a lot of communicable disease could be avoided .
Diabetic patients along the country would be put to grief for their urinal requirement, which is a day today problem for the rest of their life.
Posted by : murugesh97 - Wednesday, July 02, 2008
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