Squatting with dignity lessons from India - Kumar Alok (Sage, 2010)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction -- Rural sanitation: development in phases -- Debate on key policies and evolution of implementation strategy -- Systems building -- Geographical spread -- Spread of the movement -- Key achievements and learnings -- Key challenges -- The way forward
This book provides an analytical view of the successes and challenges encountered while creating the fast expanding rural sanitation movement in India, with a special focus on the last decade. While attempting to break the sanitation taboo in the country, this book presents a historical account of the importance attached to hygiene and sanitation in ancient India and the evolution of the sanitation policy. The key challenges and debates that have been encountered by policy makers while implementing the Total Sanitation Campaign have been discussed in detail along with a critical analysis of th