Archived from The TGELF Youth Leader Competition 2013 where we presented the social work done against Open Defecation by our Clean India Initiative.

1. What is the best
medical advancement
in the past 200 years
?
Ladies and gentlemen, good evening. Here’s a question for all of you: What
has been the best medical advancement in the past 200 years? Anyone?

2. ‘The Toilet’
- The British Medical Journal
Thats right. According to the British Medical
Journal it’s the Flushed Toilet, beating the pill and
anaesthesia. This means that the toilet is a very
big deal, a basic amenity.

3. *Poop*
Sh*t
Faeces.
They all mean the same thing. A thing that we have to do every single day. It’s the very reason we have
toilets in the first place. Over the years, decades, countries have realised the importance of toilets.

4. Where is India?
626 million people have NO toilets
= HALF our Population
18% of Urban India 69% of Rural India

5. Open Defecation
Occurs more
in India than
the next
18 countries x2

6. What’s the harm?
But then if its so common why are we making such a big deal about it?

7. *Poop* =
50 diseases
100 Worm Eggs
1,000 Parasite Cysts
1 Million Bacteria
10 Million Viruses
1 gram of
There are about 50 communicable diseases in one gram of poop, and if it isn’t disposed of properly, if you don’t
wash your hands properly, it could be travelling with you.

8. Every year contact with human faeces kills
600,000 children in India
1.4 Million globally
Every 20 secs,
1 Child dies.

9. Most rape cases in Bihar
occur during the time when
women go out in the open
to defecate.
Women get sexually assaulted out in the open.

10. Only 18% of Government
Schools in India have
separate toilets for girls.
Girls stop going to school once they start menstruating because schools don’t have proper toilets and it just gets too
much to bare.

11. NO Toilet
NO Privacy. Indignity.
It is a breach of privacy. There is indignity. And there are infections, diseases and death.

12. A MASSIVE ISSUE

13. Why Should YOU Care?
But really why should you care? You’re all privileged enough to have toilets at home, why is this your problem?
Thing is, it does affect you. How many of you have house help? How many of you have house help coming from
the slums. I do. Do you know whether they’ve got toilets? The people who’re coming to clean your house or cook
for you, might be carrying these germs. How many of you have children? Do they ever play outside in the mud?
Of course they do, they’re children. But this can make them victims too.

14. Malnutrition. Stunted mental
and physical development.
Lower productivity.
It has been proven that the height of Indian children is correlated to their neighbourhoods access to toilets. The African Continent is
poorer than India on an average, but they have taller children because they have less open defecation. Thats right, it causes stunting.

15. Economic loss to India due to
poor sanitation: 2,70,000
crores per year
Infact, open defecation is affecting the entire country, its tourism, its economy.

16. Hence we began our mission.

17. Eradicating Open Defecation

18. SulabhShauchalaya

19. SulabhShauchalaya

20. Surveys

21. Surveys

22. Chandigarh

23. Chandigarh

28. More
ProblemsWe started off thinking that everything was black and white. But on talking to the villagers
and slum dwellers, we realised that there were other problems too. A whole lot of grey.

29. Colony Number 5
WaterAndMaintenance
Most areas did have communal toilets but this is how they got. In colony number 5, they had the
state provided facilities but they were badly maintained and just not usable. Tap water wasn’t being
supplied and no one was bothered.

30. Colony Number 5
WaterAndMaintenance
In colony number 5, they had the state provided facilities but they were badly maintained and just
not usable. Tap water wasn’t being supplied and no one was bothered.

31. WaterAndMaintenance
In colony number 5, they had the state provided facilities but they were badly maintained and just
not usable. Tap water wasn’t being supplied and no one was bothered.

32. In Manimajara colony, things were better because Sulabh was providing them with cleaner loos but at a price which
the corrupt money collector had twisted around. People gathered to be heard and we were able to bring about a
card system for them.
Manimajra Colony

33. Manimajra Colony
In Manimajara colony, things were better because Sulabh was providing them with cleaner loos but at a price which
the corrupt money collector had twisted around. People gathered to be heard and we were able to bring about a
card system for them.

34. Manimajra Colony
In Manimajara colony, things were better because Sulabh was providing them with cleaner loos but at a price which
the corrupt money collector had twisted around. People gathered to be heard and we were able to bring about a
card system for them.

35. Manimajra Colony
In Manimajara colony, things were better because Sulabh was providing them with cleaner loos but at a price which
the corrupt money collector had twisted around. People gathered to be heard and we were able to bring about a
card system for them.

36. Problems
Lack of water
and poor
maintenance
Lack of
money&
resources
Lack of
awareness
Our main goal is to tackle the 3 issues on the list, but the last one, water, was extremely hard.

37. But we needed a solution that would not
only be just a toilet but a system that
interlinks itself with that what is lacking to
create an ideal win win situation. That’s
when we came across DRDOs design.
More than just a toilet.

38. DRDO’sTheDefenseResearchandDevelopmentOrganization
Bio-Loo
It requires minimum water, less space and little maintenance gives out no odor and
converts poop into usable bio gas and water. This meant that we could have more
water and more usable, productive, toilets at the same time. It is a miraculous
innovation, one that can create a sustainable energy and water system all by itself.

40. Getting this installed was an exciting proposition and so when we came across village Tirha on the outskirts of Chandigarh, a backward section
where the villagers had to cross their fields to defecate every single day, we really wanted to help them and we knew how.
Village:
Tirha,MullanpurGetting this installed was an exciting proposition and so when we came across village Tirha on the outskirts of Chandigarh,
where the villagers had to cross their fields to defecate every single day, we really wanted to help them and we knew how.

41. Getting this installed was an exciting proposition and so when we came across village Tirha on the outskirts of Chandigarh, a backward section
where the villagers had to cross their fields to defecate every single day, we really wanted to help them and we knew how.
Village:
Tirha,MullanpurGetting this installed was an exciting proposition and so when we came across village Tirha on the outskirts of Chandigarh,
where the villagers had to cross their fields to defecate every single day, we really wanted to help them and we knew how.

42. Getting this installed was an exciting proposition and so when we came across village Tirha on the outskirts of Chandigarh, a backward section
where the villagers had to cross their fields to defecate every single day, we really wanted to help them and we knew how.
Village:
Tirha,MullanpurGetting this installed was an exciting proposition and so when we came across village Tirha on the outskirts of Chandigarh,
where the villagers had to cross their fields to defecate every single day, we really wanted to help them and we knew how.

43. We have been able to get a toilet with four compartments constructed in the village. It is functioning fine
thought the biogas unit is not working yet. It’ll help around 60 lives. It’s a small step towards the 626 million
but it is something.

44. We have been able to get a toilet with four compartments constructed in the village. It is functioning fine
thought the biogas unit is not working yet. It’ll help around 60 lives. It’s a small step towards the 626 million
but it is something.

45. We have been able to get a toilet with four compartments constructed in the village. It is functioning fine
thought the biogas unit is not working yet. It’ll help around 60 lives. It’s a small step towards the 626 million
but it is something.

46. We have been able to get a toilet with four compartments constructed in the village. It is functioning fine
thought the biogas unit is not working yet. It’ll help around 60 lives. It’s a small step towards the 626 million
but it is something.

47. the toilet should be a Right for
every individual,nota privilege.

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49. Thank
You