Squatting Rights a new study conducted by the strategic philanthropy foundation Dasra in collaboration with Forbes Marshall released that the cause of sexual harassment and the spread of different types of diseases and associated problems in the cities are the region of little access to the functioning of toilets. The study also revealed that the unavailability of facilities with the slum dwellers in India allows defecation in open by a huge force of more than 50 million men daily.
The available study also focused on the fact of lack of sanitation along with water shortage in the urban localities of the nation. It also threw a light on the fact that there are localities in the Urban India that receives about 30 minutes of water supply in a week when compared to the one that receives 3 to 4 hours supply service almost every day.
This study has also thrown light on the fact that the 24 percent of the female drop outs in the schools of Delhi is due to the lack of access to the toilets. Same is the cause that more than 70 percent of the girls residing in the slums of Delhi suffer verbal or the physical assaults almost every day.
The survey was conducted in fifteen cities of India that includes the metros like Hyderabad, Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Bangalore and also included the data collected from UNICEF India, Water, Environment and Sanitation, UN Women and Jagori Survey on Women Safety Data- 2010, and more in its report. The findings state that the 6.4 percent of India’s GDP (gross domestic product) is invested on the unproductive people including ailing children and uneducated girls.
The report argues that the government, philanthropists and other bodies working for the slum uplift needs to come up with enhanced sanitation facilities. The reports states that the investments made in the line of bettering the sanitation facilities will give back better returns by decreasing the investments made in health and economic development issues.
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