19th November is the World Toilet Day. This day is being observed as part of the effort of the world to increase the facility of healthy and convenient toilet facilities to the entire population in the world.
India gives a poor picture in this respect. Approximately about 50% of the people, mainly in the slums, ghettos, villages and rural areas are compelled to defecate in the open in the absence of toilets.
One can see hundreds of people, including women and children, on the rail tracks and on the sides of the rail tracks in the morning, defecating openly. The sadness and anguish in their faces being put to such shame can never be forgotten.
What is the government and the society doing for these millions of people in the slums and ghettos? While a family have a 27 storey building for its own, when another gives a plane as a gift to his wife and the like, in the same country there are not toilets for millions to attend to calls of nature. What a shame for the country!
An effective campaign and agitation is required to compel the government to urgently attend to this acute problem.