{"id":36031,"date":"2018-11-01T13:13:07","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T07:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=36031"},"modified":"2018-11-01T13:13:07","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T07:43:07","slug":"creating-a-new-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/creating-a-new-normal\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating a new normal:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/opinion\/columns\/swachh-bharat-open-defecation-toilets-swachhta-status-report-2016-big-hairy-audacious-goal-bhag-creating-a-new-normal-4761669\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Creating a new normal<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: (Indian Express, Editorial)<\/span> (Leaving no stones unturned for a clean India)<\/p>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India has set itself a seemingly impossible goal, to end open defecation by October 2, 2019.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>India\u2019s primary concern:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lack of toilets allows faecal germs to spread, which cause sometimes fatal illnesses like cholera and diarrhoea, especially among children. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moreover, Undernutrition sets in, leaving kids more vulnerable to infections, which in turn make them more malnourished. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Achievement of the Abhiyan:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">44 million toilets have been built since the declaration of the Swaach Bharat Abhiyan in October 2014.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over two lakh villages are open-defecation-free, as are 149 districts and 5 states. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Drawbacks of the Abhiyan:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Not everyone who has a toilet, chooses to actually use it.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">o<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Government has thus had to switch focus from building toilets to encouraging behavior changes that can make villages truly open defecation free.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">o<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Their surveys now aim to measure use as well as construction. <\/span> <b>Arguments:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There\u2019s an argument stating that incentivizing building toilets at a rapid pace is damaging because many are poorly constructed and some are never or partially used. This makes little sense from three perspectives.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">o<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the first place, it is incorrect to argue that a policy is poor for the reason that some aspects of implementation are challenging.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">o<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Second, even if 20 per cent of these new toilet owners continue to go to the bush, the reduction in infection from the 80 per cent who use toilets will provide substantial benefits.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">o<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Third, it flows from behavioral science that the very presence of a toilet is a constant reminder that society is changing, that new norms of hygienic behavior are expected. <\/span> <b>Conclusion:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Swachh Bharat has garnered international support and emulation, and NGOs, national and international development agencies have mobilized across India\u2019s least well-off districts.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Academics will continue to play their important role of questioning government policy and remind them to use best practices but the Government must listen and continue to march on to achieve results by 2019.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>BHAG<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ending open defecation for all Indians by 2019 is what is known, in management parlance, as a BHAG, a Big Hairy Audacious Goal.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Leadership experts know that by offering a worthwhile, but difficult to achieve vision, one can mobilize an institution, motivate a workforce, drive change and, sometimes, even reach that goal[1] . <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The BHAG was set by the great leader John F Kennedy in his speech in 1961, when he said, \u201cWe chose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things \u2014 not because they are easy, but because they are hard.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creating a new normal: (Indian Express, Editorial) (Leaving no stones unturned for a clean India) Context: India has set itself a seemingly impossible goal, to end open defecation by October 2, 2019. India\u2019s primary concern: Lack of toilets allows faecal germs to spread, which cause sometimes fatal illnesses like cholera and diarrhoea, especially among children.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/creating-a-new-normal\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Creating a new normal:<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704895850},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36031","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}