Source- The post is based on the article \u201cSafe urban spaces for all shouldn\u2019t be a long haul\u201d published in the \u201cmint\u201d on 30th March 2023.<\/p>\n
Syllabus: <\/strong>GS2- Vulnerable sections of the population. GS1- Social empowerment<\/p>\n Relevance<\/strong>– Issues related to gender gap<\/p>\n News<\/strong>– The article deals with lack of access to safe and hygienic facilities for women.<\/p>\n Swachh Bharat was begun on an impressive scale. Over 100 million toilets<\/strong> were built across rural India within a span of five years. In 2019, the country was declared \u201copen defecation free\u201d <\/strong>(ODF).<\/p>\n The Phase II of the mission<\/strong> started to sustain behavioral shift<\/strong>s by focusing on waste disposal, litter reduction, and stagnant water<\/strong>. Today, of India\u2019s 594,240 villages, 235,708 are declared as \u201cODF-plus<\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>\n Women still face not just an acute scarcity of public urinal facilities in cities<\/strong>. They also face the risk of acquiring infections from unhygienic lavatories<\/strong>. The private set-ups also lack these facilities.<\/p>\n Women who cannot work from home and have less control of their time schedules are more vulnerable.<\/p>\n They face safety issues<\/strong> in transport hubs or field-work trips by road, office spaces or institutional premises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source- The post is based on the article \u201cSafe urban spaces for all shouldn\u2019t be a long haul\u201d published in the \u201cmint\u201d on 30th March 2023. Syllabus: GS2- Vulnerable sections of the population. GS1- Social empowerment Relevance– Issues related to gender gap News– The article deals with lack of access to safe and hygienic facilities… Continue reading Safe urban spaces for all shouldn\u2019t be a long haul<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10501,11125,4483],"class_list":["post-235462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-live-mint","tag-mint","tag-swachh-bharat-mission","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704787693},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What are some statistics related to coverage of Swachh Bharat Mission?<\/strong><\/h2>\n
How do women face difficulties in access to hygienic facilities and safe spaces?<\/strong><\/h2>\n