Partly true, but building a toilet in a village isn't that expensive and is a one-time investment, as opposed to mobile phones.
Toilets however, are lower down in the priority list for them, especially in rural areas. Why do it at home and then clean it, when you can go defecate outside in the open
Stop eating street food in Delhi. You will be okay with one.thank god, i have 4
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Problem is not that simple.
There are reports that people loo outside even if they have got toilets.
"Thandi hawa ka jhonka" !!!!!!
The dirtiest democracy in the world
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The dirtiest democracy in the world
Unfair article. These public toilets look fine to me.
Unfair article. These public toilets look fine to me.
Zaid Hamid does. within 5 years
I am not sure if you have a govt version of Indian dream to be superpower ? Rather most of the ministers or public figures have clarified that India is not a superpower nor it wants to be. For E.g Listen to Shashi Tharoor, Mani Shankar etc etc
I think those two things are orthogonal to each other.
So ??
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So why do you think India is not making effort there ?
No, India should gets its priorities right and spend money where it's needed. Not just make toilets. I thought this was obvious!
Come on!
That's the government's job right ? The budget is going to be presented day after tomorrow by the Finance Minister. You should tune in to get a good idea of where India is spending it's money. As I said earlier, it's a fine balance between creating new wealth and spending it on welfare
So why do you think India is not making effort there ?
You are talking about mobile phones. So are you saying a person can not buy a mobile phone if he doesn't have a toilet?[/B]
Let me understand from you how you define priority in a country of 1.2 b ppl
That's the government's job right ? The budget is going to be presented day after tomorrow by the Finance Minister. You should tune in to get a good idea of where India is spending it's money. As I said earlier, it's a fine balance between creating new wealth and spending it on welfare
Their money. They create budget and spend on all things. They are in +ve trend instead of someother who are going down. So their toilets for poor people are being available to more and more every year. Every year a portion of poor is moving to middle class. Slow but steady.
Which thing you will stop as a nation? May be you need to read more about state budget planning.
I will let you go now then.
My point is in reference to the OP and you have jumped on some next level.
Well, just please you, I would stop crime. Happy?
Maybe you need to look up the word 'priority'.
What you are saying is an off shoot to everything that has been said. You are defending the lack of toilets in India and not addressing how a government should prioritise spending – which is what I am referring to!
Agreed. We need to invest in the poor. The point of my post was that we also need means to generate money to be invested in the poor.
But it is currently working top-down, albeit slowly. Millions are being uplifted from poverty every year as more jobs are being created, and training programs for the poor are being formulated to help them graduate from unskilled (and poor) labourers to skilled (and middle income) labourers.
