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.
