UN experts have published a nine-point prescription for achieving the world's Millennium Development Goal for sanitation by 2015.
Their report reveals that 600 million Indian people - the equivalent of 54% of the population - defecated in the open air in 2008/9. In contrast to this poor figure, 545 million Indians have admitted to owning mobile phones and being connected to a network.
Following the publication of these conflicting statistics, Zafar Adeel, director of UN think-tank the Institute for Water, Environment and Health, has reinforced the need for a ‘popular education' about the dangers of poor sanitation.
'‘This simple measure could do more to save lives, improve health and help pull India and other countries in a similar circumstance out of poverty than any alternative investment' he said.
The Indian Government has vowed to end open defecation by 2012 ..... no chance, they prefer to beg for alms from the West and then spend their own money on Space Rockets, Nuclear weapons and stealing western jobs.
Sunday, 18 April 2010
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they prefer to beg for alms from the West? where did you come to know that mr/miss? wouldnt you like to return with interest the loot by the "empire on which sun never sets" for 200 years....
ReplyDeletewake up and be rational...sanitation is a problem in some areas still in india...and its need to be tackled..we know we are better with heads and can make nuclear weapons,space rockets too
and stealing western jobs..how did you make this one mr/miss? how about the loot i mentioned above and how about the low iq westerners who even cannot do basic maths and science..
last but not the least you guys living on arab petro money and they are breeding muslims in your place..wake up before its too late!
Aman, £850 million in UK aid to India over 3 yrs is 'alms from the west' .... while you fire rockets in to space.
ReplyDeleteThe 'Empire' left you with railroads, a national government, national laws, civil service and democracy (all of which you didn't have before the 'Empire'.... a good return on any looting.
Call centres and IT work being 'outsourced' to India, not because the work is done better (cos it aint!) but because its cheaper ... jobs lost in the West.
And India doesn't have petro issues? India has 160.9 million Muslims ... up from 138 million in 2001 in 9 yrs, so whose being outbred?
Aman, Mr Perfects answers are all on the lines of what I would have said ... we have given a huge amount of Aid to India, while it boasts of being a new world super power!
ReplyDeleteIndia was not one nation before the British arrived, so wouldn't be one country now if it wasn't for the 'Empire'.
Indian call centres are the bane of UK businesses .... read my Dell Hell blog
With Pakistan on your borders and 160.9 Muslims inside them, its you who risk the Muslim armageddon .... remember that you Hindus were being ruled by the Muslim Moguls before the Europeans arrived.
So I am afraid that I don't accept your comments as correct.