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participation is also ensured in it. The participating PRI members also spoke to the occasion. At Malkangiri similar awareness camp on Community Led Sanitation Programme (CLTS) was organised at Malkangiri by BISWA on dt.20.12.08. Mr. Suprabhat

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Communicate Minds

1st January 2009

Fortnightly

Khirod Ch. Malick

Pitabasa Sethi Duryodhan Malick Ajoy Shroff Shiv Prasad Meher Bibhu Prasad Mohanty Prasant Kumar Sahu Dr. Jharana Mishra

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BISWA Concerns for Poverty & Ecology

prime concerns are poverty & environment. We are trying to generate more and more livelihood, so that a major problem of poverty could be reduced to utmost level. Similarly we are putting our maximum effort to address another major global problem of climate change, so that the world environment could sustain. These were the words from Mr. Sunil Kumar, the chief of ABN Amro Bank Foundation India. He was highly impressed with integrated approach of BISWA in the social development sector. Addressing to a gathering of BISWA staff members at BTI on 18th December, he advised to adopt utmost transparency and honesty. He was accompanied by Mr. S.S.Barik & Mr.S.N.Mishra from Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar. The duo were here to evaluate BISWA on behalf of ABN Amro Bank foundation towards the integration he saw here. He urged the gathering to maintain their quest for achievement and that may lead them to top of their carrier. Another guest, Mr. Raktim Mukharjee, an Advisor to Planning Commission, was also a center of attraction on that occasion. He quoted Swami Bibekananda at the outset of his deliberation & said,

awareness camp was organised by BISWA at village Dihakhiuruni, in Bolagarh block of Khurdha district on dt.18.12.08. Mr. Abani Kumar Baral, Assistant Project Coordinator, District Water & Sanitation Mission participated in it as the guest and spoke on subjects like sanitation of villages and sanitation practices of villagers. He invited peoples participation for the success of the project. Other problems related to proper health & sanitation of villagers were also discussed in that meeting, wherein almost all the villagers of that village and Panchayati Raj Institution members took part. Staff members of BISWA like Brajaraj Mohapatra, Deputy Manager - Project & Pundit Pranakrushna Sharma, Trainer participated in it in the leadership of Lingaraj Das, Manager - Water & Sanitation. They elaborated the role of BISWA in Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) and process of programme implementation. They explained that highest priority is being given to the self help groups in this programme and their active

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Sarangi, District Coordinator hosted the function. It was targeted to bring six Gram Panchayats of Malkangiri block of Malkangiri district under Total Sanitation Campaign. It was also decided to make the entire Malkangiri block a TSC block by March 2009. It was decided in the meeting that our community organisers would organise village meetings in their villages. In this connection a mason training programme will be organised by BISWA to empower the local masons about the technical part of the programme. In addition to it community led total sanitation practices would be organised by BISWA in concerned Gram Panchayats. Mr. Prasant Kumar Behera, JE-RWSS & Ms. Sudhashree

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Conquer your own weakness and then you may be able to conquer the Himalaya. Three qualities are essential that owes success in life and these are committedness, dedication & transparency in works & expressive in performance. Moreover, you should not neglect your human relationship, since we all are working for social development sector, he concluded. At the outset Mr. S.P.Meher, Manager Public Relations welcomed the guests. They were greeted with presentation of flower bouquets. There was a session of self introduction by attending staff members of BISWA. Mr.K.C.Malick, Chairman BISWA, also spoke to the occasion with giving a brief introduction of the organization. Soon after the brief profile of BISWA, he said we identify the beneficiaries of a project before the grant or fund comes to our hand. In such a way their needs are also properly identified for addressal. Replying to the points raised by Mr. Kumar, he further said poverty and ecology should be taken care simultaneously. Massive mining is inevitable in this present era of rapid industrialization. The earth surface is severely damaged with digging of deep cavity after mining, as a result of it not only the green
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to consider about the universal problem of unemployment that leads to poverty. Most ironically this massive industrialisation is unable to address our problem of gross unemployment as most of the industries are after adopting automation to economise their products. So it is very clear that industrialisation has no human face, rather it believes only in profit and nothing else. In such a global scenario problems of India are raising their ugly heads and our economy finds itself just helpless to address it. Even we are being pestered with many a problems, but fortunately these problems have its own solutions. The only thing is we have to be a little considerate in planning our own future. Let us try to go to the roots of our problems. Mining leaves deep scars in shape of huge cavities on the earth surface. Since the top soil is removed and destroyed that makes the land not only sterile but also causes much serious damage to ecology. As the green cover is mercilessly removed the rapid soil erosion takes place there. But our rivers are to bear the brunt in this case. The wash away soil accumulated in the river basins that reduce the water enable us to generate employment as well as address two major problems of to-days world. The refilled area of these mining fields could be used to increase our agricultural productions for combating hunger. Mr. Malicks idea was highly appreciated by the guests. They visited Brass & Bell Metal Unit at Rengali, Soap unit at Budhapara, Sambalpur with Mr. A. K. Das, Project Manager, BISWA. The meeting was concluded after vote of thanks tendered by Mrs.
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Poverty alleviation & climate change are two major global concerns for all of us as on today. And priority wise we have to concentrate on climate change immediately as any delay may elude us any further chance to do something in matter. Rapid denudation of green cover from the earth surface has already caused much damage to our ecosystem. As a result of it unexpected climate change and global warming has really threatened us. On the one hand melting of icebergs has turned our oceans wild causing severe damage to our sea-shores and on the other hand holes in the Ozone-sphere has made undesired ultra-violate rays penetrated into our atmosphere. These two are the prime causes of global warming. Then to our misfortune massive industrialisation has expedited the damaging process. But this industrialisation is inevitable and any resistance to it carries no meaning as on today. These industries need raw materials that come from our mines. Thus mining activities have to go with it, even though it causes much damage to our environment. When thinking on the problems at global level, we have
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cover of earth surface is destroyed but also it leads to global warming, which is a major concern for all of us. On the other hand such a situation leads to heavy siltation in our river beds with drastically reducing its water holding capacity. Then rain brings devastating floods resulting in heavy loss not only to our resources but also to ecology. But we can undo both the situations in a single stroke. If we remove deposited silt from the river basin & fill in the cavities of mining fields with it, it may

Campaign involving Panchayati Raj Institutions, Co-operatives, Women Groups, Self Help Groups, NGOs etc. are also important components of the Strategy. The strategy addresses all sections of rural population to bring about the relevant behavioural changes for improved sanitation and hygiene practices and meet their sanitary hardware requirements in an affordable and accessible manner by offering a wide range of technological choices. IMPLEMENTATION Implementation of TSC is proposed on a project mode. A project proposal emanates from a district, is scrutinized by the State Government and transmitted to the Government of India (Department of Drinking Water Supply, Ministry of Rural Development). TSC is implemented in phases with startup activities. Funds are made available for preliminary IEC work. The physical implementation gets oriented towards satisfying the feltneeds, wherein individual households choose from a menu of options for their household latrines. The builtin flexibility in the menu of options gives the poor and the disadvantaged families opportunity for subsequent upgradation depending upon their requirements and financial position. In the campaign approach, while a synergistic interaction between the Government agencies and other stakeholders, intensive IEC and advocacy, with participation of NGOs/Panchayati Raj Institutions/ resource organizations, take place to bring about the desired behavioural changes for relevant sanitation practices, provision of alternate delivery system, proper technical specifications, designs and quality of installations are also provided to effectively fulfill the generated
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Individual Health and hygiene is largely dependent on adequate availability of drinking water and proper sanitation. There is, therefore, a direct relationship between water, sanitation and health. Consumption of unsafe drinking water, improper disposal of human excreta, improper environmental sanitation and lack of personal and food hygiene have been major causes of many diseases in developing countries. India is no exception to this. Prevailing High Infant Mortality Rate is also largely attributed to poor sanitation. It was in this context that the Central Rural Sanitation Programme (CRSP) was launched in 1986 primarily with the objective of improving the quality of life of the rural people and also to provide privacy and dignity to women. The concept of sanitation was earlier limited to disposal of human excreta by cess pools, open ditches, pit latrines, bucket system etc. Today it connotes a comprehensive concept, which includes liquid and solid waste disposal, food hygiene, personal, domestic as well as environmental hygiene. Proper sanitation is important not only from the general health point of view but it has a vital role to play in our individual and social life too. Sanitation is one of the basic determinants of quality of life and Human Development Index. Good sanitary practices prevent contamination of water and soil and thereby prevent diseases. The concept of sanitation was, therefore, expanded to include personal hygiene, home sanitation, safe water, garbage disposal, excreta disposal and waste water disposal.

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comprehensive Baseline A Survey on Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices in rural water supply and sanitation was conducted during 1996-97 under the aegis of the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, which showed that 55% of those with private latrines were self-motivated. Only 2% of the respondents claimed the existence of subsidy as the major motivating factor, while 54% claimed to have gone in for sanitary latrines due to convenience and privacy. The study also showed that 51% of the respondents were willing to spend upto Rs.1000/- to acquire sanitary toilets. Keeping in view the above facts, the CRSP was improved. In the new format, CRSP moves towards a demand driven approach. The revised approach in the programme titled Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) emphasizes more on Information, Education and Communication (IEC), Human Resource Development, Capacity Development activities to increase awareness among the rural people and generation of demand for sanitary facilities. This will also enhance peoples capacity to choose appropriate options through alternate delivery mechanisms as per their economic condition. The Programme is being implemented with focus on community-led and people centered initiatives. Children play an effective role in absorbing and popularising new q+`ideas and concepts. This Programme, therefore, intends to tap their potential as the most persuasive advocates of good sanitation practices in their own households and in schools. The aim is also to provide separate urinals/toilets for boys and girls in all the schools/ Anganwadis
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in rural areas in the country. OBJECTIVES The main objectives of the TSC are as under: Bring about an improvement in the general quality of life in the rural areas. Accelerate sanitation coverage in rural areas. Generate felt demand for sanitation facilities through awareness creation and health education. Cover schools/ Anganwadis in rural areas with sanitation facilities and promote hygiene education and sanitary habits among students. Encourage cost effective and a p p r o p r ia t e t e c h n o l o g i e s in sanitation. Eliminate open defecation to minimize risk of contamination of drinking water sources and food. Convert dry latrines to pour flush latrines, and eliminate manual scavenging practice, wherever in existence in rural areas. STRATEGY The strategy is to make the Programme community led and people centered. A demand driven approach is to be adopted with increased emphasis on awareness creation and demand generation for sanitary facilities in houses, schools and for cleaner environment. Alternate delivery mechanisms would be adopted to meet the community needs. Subsidy for individual household latrine units has been replaced by incentive to the poorest of the poor households. Rural School Sanitation is a major component and an entry point for wider acceptance of sanitation by the rural people. Technology improvisations to meet the customer preferences and location specific intensive IEC
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