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| JKNPP castigates Union govt for self praise for success of SBA | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Sept 30: Referring to the lynching of two Dalit children last week in a remote village of Madhya Pradesh for defecating in the open, Harsh Dev Singh JKNPP Chairman and Former Minister said that the episode could not be dubbed merely as yet another act of crime but was indicative of a much deeper malaise within the system.
The double murder has not only exposed the gaping holes in the implementation of Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) but has also laid bare an age old social evil of caste discrimination that has become more pronounced of late in the country, said Singh. What is most disturbing, he said, is the fact that the episode took place on a day when PM Modi was being conferred the "Global Goal Keeper Award" in New York for having declared India as "open defection free". And while PM Modi was talking of improving global sanitation after having declared construction of 11 crore (110 million) toilets in his country, the two Dalit children were being thrashed to death for defecating in the open. He said that it was further astounding to note that while Bhavkedhi, the native village of lynched Dalit children, was declared ODF, they did not have the said facility in their house thereby pointing towards a much serious malady afflicting the system.
Asserting that IHHL scheme under SBM pertaining to construction of individual Household latrines was a big scam, Singh said that majority of the said toilet/sanitation units existed on papers only with the funds for the scheme having been siphoned by unscrupulous functionaries.
He said that Bhavkedhi episode was only a tip of the ice berg as there were hundreds and hundreds of cases wherein false reports of ODF had been prepared by the concerned agencies without having provided the requisite facility on ground. In several cases, the govt functionaries had forced the poor villagers to construct latrines/toilets only for record sake without they being fit for use and had certified the villages as ODF merely to fulfil a formality. Several such toilet units had been rendered unusable and closed down due to non availability of sufficient water needed for flushing and cleaning such units divulged Singh.
Describing the Bhavkedhi incident as a blot on "Swachh Bharat Mission", the NPP Chairman urged upon the centre to re-verify the ground situation, before celebrating the 'success' of the scheme on 2nd October as proposed. He asserted that the MP episode should serve as eye opener for the BJP led govt which was delivering sermons across the globe on cleanliness without giving a keep into its own dirty laundry within the country. |
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