No proper toilets in Schools

The "National Urban Sanitation Policy" launched in 2008 gives the first dictum that the most imperative requirement to achieve 100% sanitation is the Awareness Generation & Behavioral Change".

This organison has given these ratings in schools for sanitation.

 Green

 Blue

 Yellow

 Black

 Red

Today in India 30.66 million urban households, which form 35.49% of the urban households, suffer inadequate access to sanitation facilities and people either defecate in the open or use shared and community lavatories.

 Besides being an issue of human dignity, this practice results in unsafe disposal of human excreta which has a severe impact on environmental and health outcomes. The inadequate and unsanitary disposal of excreta leads to contamination of ground water and surface water. The loss due to diseases arising out of poor sanitation for children under 14 years in urban areas alone is estimated at Rs. 500 Crores at 2001 prices. A related concern is that of manual scavenging which has not been eliminated in our country even after 60 years after independence.

To make the situation better the orgnasion has conducted a test In schools and as part of the test these results came out surprising in India, where we claim about big tall schools , corporate schools, international schools, to the great surprise of the nation only 1 percent schools  were able to pass the test.

Less than 25 out of the 100 CBSE schools in Andhra Pradesh  applied for the Board’s National School Sanitation Initiative. Of them, 19 have received a “red rating”, the lowest.

Only two schools in the state managed to get a “yellow rating” indicating a fair level of sanitation with room for improvement.

The scenario at the national level is no better. While 520 CBSE schools across the country had applied for ratings, only three could meet the sanitation norms.

If this is the case at national level and state level , what will be situation at Kakinada schools, we are sorry to report about the schools in Kakinada, after our survey and visits to many schools by our better kakinada team we found the situation very stinky, with dry toilets, toilets without running water, unclean toilet seats, in some schools so, called English medium schools children are using public places for toilets, in some schools girl children are not having proper toilets, a nation shame.

We team better Kakinada urges schools to have basic facilities for children.