The recent rape and brutal murders of two young girls in Badaun, UP State has caught the international attention. It is learnt that 75% households in Chhattishgarh do not have access to private toilets at home.
Nine out of ten girls in rural areas face harassment while they are on the way to relieve themselves in open fields and thickets in country side.
A report reveals that 41.59 lakh households rely on open areas, as only 80,000 odd households have access to public toilets. Even in the capital city of Raipur, majority of 8.61 lakh households have no toilet facilities. Only 31% of the households (2.67 lakh) in the city have access to toilets within their premises.
Is there any planning to set right this trend in the near future, no one knows. Unless the state government takes up this issue in all seriousness and puts forward a time-bound programme for execution this curse is bound to get a bad name for the state for ever.
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