It is said that the character of
a person can be judged by his shoes.. after an year’s experience of visiting
various villages across the country, I believe the character of a village/city
can be judged by its sanitation facilities.
Sanitation across villages in India is extremely poor. We still have millions
of people who do not use toilets… where the narrow lanes are filled with
garbage.. and all this leading to
increased diseases. This is not to say that urban India is any better… I sometimes
feel urban India is worse off. We have so many educated people littering the streets
and the blaming the government. It brings me back to the question that where do
we stand after more than 60 years of independence… the experience which I share
today, were shared by Gandhi years before…
and we still have the balls to say that we are “developing” nation… on the verge of development, when people here
are yet to work on their shitting habits. ..
