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| Total sanitation remains a distant dream in JK | | 44 % rural households without latrines | | Akshay Azad
JAMMU, Jan 3: The Jammu and Kashmir State has achieved a dubious distinction as 44 percent rural households san proper latrine facilities, despite spending huge funds under total sanitation scheme of Rural and Development Department (RDD).
Sources informed Early Times that a sizeable number of rural households that is 443 out of 1000 households in rural areas of state were without latrine facilities and were defecating in open.
However, the situation in urban areas is far better as only .06 percent households are without such facility. Only 60 out of 1000 are without latrine facilities.
They further said that when RDD department had launched the total sanitation campaign, it had boasted to bringing about a real revolution in village life providing unpolluted living environment, but so far the claims were proved as hoax.
"The RDD department had also claimed that the programme is implemented in a mission mode but the mission mode is seemingly very slow", sources said.
Sources further divulged that on account of bathroom facilities in state, around 40 percent in rural areas were without bathroom facility while 0.071 percent in urban areas were without such facility. "A total of 405 households out of 1000 in rural and 71 out of 1000 in urban areas are without bathroom facility", the documents in possession of Early Times maintained.
On account of improved drainage facility, a sizeable number 66 % were without such facility in rural areas. At an average only 342 rural households out of 1000 households, while in urban areas 815 households have such facility.
On account of garbage disposal facility, sources said that the statistics show that only 18.5 percent households in rural areas have such facility. "An average only 185 rural households out of 1000 have garbage disposal arrangement while 815 rural households are without such facility", figures revealed, adding that in urban areas averagely 664 households out of 1000 have garbage disposal facility.
Sources further divulged that on account of improved source of drinking water, 806 households out of 1000 in rural areas while 979 out of 1000 have such facility in urban areas.
In case of adequate drinking water throughout the year, 744 out of 1000 in rural and 848 in urban areas have such facility. |
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