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Uncollected Feces Highlight Urban Indian Sanitation Challenge
By Jason Gale
June 9 (Bloomberg) -- More than half of the human feces in most urban areas of India goes uncollected and none of the country’s 423 cities is “healthy and clean,” according to a government-commissioned survey.
Sanitation facilities in two of every five cities “need immediate remedial action” after attaining the lowest of four ratings in a survey commissioned by the Ministry of Urban Development released yesterday. More than half require “considerable improvement” and only four cities, including the capital, New Delhi, received the second-highest ranking.
The findings show sanitation lagging behind in improvements to infrastructure in the world’s second fastest-growing major economy. India has more than 600 million mobile-phone subscribers, half its population, yet only 366 million people had access to proper sanitation in 2008, a study published in April by the United Nations University, a UN think-tank, shows.
To contact the reporter on this story: Jason Gale in Singapore at j.gale@bloomberg.net
Last Updated: June 9, 2010 01:51 EDT
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By Jason Gale
June 9 (Bloomberg) -- More than half of the human feces in most urban areas of India goes uncollected and none of the country’s 423 cities is “healthy and clean,” according to a government-commissioned survey.
Sanitation facilities in two of every five cities “need immediate remedial action” after attaining the lowest of four ratings in a survey commissioned by the Ministry of Urban Development released yesterday. More than half require “considerable improvement” and only four cities, including the capital, New Delhi, received the second-highest ranking.
The findings show sanitation lagging behind in improvements to infrastructure in the world’s second fastest-growing major economy. India has more than 600 million mobile-phone subscribers, half its population, yet only 366 million people had access to proper sanitation in 2008, a study published in April by the United Nations University, a UN think-tank, shows.
To contact the reporter on this story: Jason Gale in Singapore at j.gale@bloomberg.net
Last Updated: June 9, 2010 01:51 EDT
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=washingtonstory&sid=aikNtywfZPGE