[Media Watch] Looking at India's sanitation divide

Toilet: Ek Prem Katha (Toilet: A Love Story) is a movie vividly sketching the current sanitation situation in India, which is similar to many other southeast Asian countries. Nearly 600 million of India's population do not have access to a toilet. The prime ministerial initiative, the Clean India Mission by Narenda Modi, had a mixed response in many states where cultural dogma on sanitation prevails. Entangled with the culture and tradition, people prefer to defecate in the open. The religious impediment is even worse, and as a consequence eradication of open defecation is challenging.
Source: The Lancet Infectious Diseases - Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Tags: Media Watch Source Type: research