Basic Sanitation in Rural India : Road Map to Swachh Bharat
Contents: Preface. Introduction. Rural sanitation in India: Agenda for Swachh Bharat/D. Sundar Ram. 1. Sulabh’s Road Map for Rural Sanitation Technological interventions for Swachh/Bharat Bindeshwar Pathak. 2. Water and Sanitation: The role of decentralised institutions in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana States/M.Gopinath Reddy and K.S. Babu.
3. Sustainable Sanitation Practices in Rural India Need for people’s participation/S. K. Pachauri. 4. Role of Panchayats in Rural Sanitation Karnataka State (Special monitoring report on outcomes and performance)/Jos Chathukulam. 5. Further Decentralisation of Management of Drinking Water in Karnataka Perspective and problems/Veerashekharappa. 6. Renovating Culture and Social Norms for Total Sanitation in India/V. Ragupathy and A. Dheivaprakash. 7. Initiatives for a Sustainable Solid Waste Management System Reality check with Mudichur village panchayat, Tamil Nadu/K. Gireesan. 8. Sanitation in Kerala The status/M.K. Ravindranathan. 9. Provision of Basic Sanitation in Rural Karnataka Achievements and challenges/Narayana Billava and Arunkumar R Kulkarni. 10. Sanitation and Social Change in Developing Societies A study with special reference to India/S.S. Sreekumar. 11. Need of Changing the Mindset of Youth Road Map for Swachh Bharat/Venkatrao Y. Ghorpade. 12. Status of Rural Sanitation in India A synoptic view/P. Hiranniya Kalesh. 13. Sanitation Status in Government Schools of Rajasthan (The case studies of Rajsamand, Bhilwada and Ajmer)/Basant Kumar. Index.
Basic sanitation to the people of rural India is one of the important issues on which the debate has been going-on for the last 30 years in India without arriving any concrete solutions for clean India. To accelerate the efforts to achieve universal sanitation coverage and to put focus on sanitation, the Prime Minister Modi launched the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) on 2nd October, 2014.
The book presents a vivid picture of the rural sanitation and its implementation strategies from the perspective of the rural people under the new dispensation of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. It is in this context that the book focuses on the need to carry out a futuristic introspection of rural sanitation in the context of to achieve a ‘Clean India’ by 2019. The contribution made by distinguished social workers, researchers, NGO functionaries and administrators identify emerging challenges and suggest the ways and means to evolve a mechanism for a healthy India and clean India with active participation of Panchayati Raj Institutions in rural India. (jacket)
