Abstract:

The perception of sanitation generally includes waste disposal, personal hygiene and household as well as environmental hygiene. It would not be incorrect to articulate that it barely describes the sanitary conditions as they acquire in the rural India. The majority of the citizens still defecate in the open space, the majority of the villages lack waste management and sewage systems and many in the villages are unaware about the outcomes of poor sanitation and insanitary conditions. As a result, many people suffer and even die of diseases caused by harmful practices of personal and ecological hygiene. Rural sanitation numbers significantly in the National Agenda for supremacy. At present the degree of hygiene coverage in India is around 98 percent of all rural households as per Government portal data.  The nonexistence of secure sanitation contributes considerably to the poor quality of life as reflected by well accepted parameters like Infant mortality and morbidity rates. Rural sanitation is a National subject. The central governments execute the rural sanitation program under various policies. The central government supporting their efforts to providing monitory and scientific assistance through the centrally sponsored Rural Sanitation Program (Central Rural Sanitation Program). In this paper researcher will review various Government programs for promoting safe and sustainable sanitation to rural India & This paper specifically deals with the various guidelines of Government of India.

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