Eleven reasons for poor sanitation in India are as follows:
Sanitation is one of the methods to provide primary health care to the actual need of the community possibly through minimising the level of pollutants in the environment.
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India, having 14% of world’s total population suffers by 50% of world’s total diseases due to poor sanitation.
(i) Low priority accorded to sanitation
(ii) Lack of felt need
(iii) Lack of coordination between different implementing agencies
(iv) Inadequate sectorial planning
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(v) Illiteracy and ignorance
(vi) Lack of infrastructure.
(vii) Weak and inefficient institutional mechanism.
(viii) Inadequate trained human resources
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(ix) Inadequate financial resources.
(x) Lack of community participation and inadequate health education facilities.
(xi) Lack of private sector participation.
The problem of rural sanitation is further complicated due to social and attitudinal problems. A large percentage of our population is poor, illiterate and socially dis-organised So, these do not realise, the importance of sanitation. The sanitation programme will be successful only through people’s involvement and by designing a system which is suitable to the sociocultural attitudes and customs of the people.