Showing posts with label Sanitation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sanitation. Show all posts
Mr.Kulandai Francis who has been awarded with Magsaysay says, working with the objective of eradicating poverty and empowering more than one lakh rural women for 35 long years has got him award. Talking to AIR News, he said that he did not expect to get the prestigious award.
Reeling in poverty during childhood days in Salem, Mr. Francis had to struggle hard to get a basic education. The only land which the family had to be sold in order to get him a graduate education. The inspiration to work for the upliftment and empowerment came to him when he was involved in relief work during the Bangladeshi war and also during drought in Pune in 1972.
His organisation, the Integrated Village Development Project provides training to rural students and also in enhancing their skills namely training in rural sanitation,accountancy,management, giving educational assistance for students in high schools, scholarships and also computer skills. The visionary Mr. Francis was also successful in pursuing the holistic economic empowerment of thousands of women and their families. His organisation has built science labs, computer labs, solar lamps in schools situated in many backward areas of Krishnagiri district.
Through more than 8500 self help groups, the organisation has encouraged savings and credit activities among the economically backward. They were able to build atleast 300 check dams in the region to save water for irrigation and drinking purposes.HIV testing for pregnant women, setting up of non formal schools for child labourers, providing sanitation facilities in the tribal areas are also part of the yeoman service rendered by the Integrated Village Development Program founded by Mr. Kulandai Francis.
He says that living in poverty is terrible and wants to fulfil his obejctive of wiping out poverty from the Country.
Reeling in poverty during childhood days in Salem, Mr. Francis had to struggle hard to get a basic education. The only land which the family had to be sold in order to get him a graduate education. The inspiration to work for the upliftment and empowerment came to him when he was involved in relief work during the Bangladeshi war and also during drought in Pune in 1972.
His organisation, the Integrated Village Development Project provides training to rural students and also in enhancing their skills namely training in rural sanitation,accountancy,management, giving educational assistance for students in high schools, scholarships and also computer skills. The visionary Mr. Francis was also successful in pursuing the holistic economic empowerment of thousands of women and their families. His organisation has built science labs, computer labs, solar lamps in schools situated in many backward areas of Krishnagiri district.
Through more than 8500 self help groups, the organisation has encouraged savings and credit activities among the economically backward. They were able to build atleast 300 check dams in the region to save water for irrigation and drinking purposes.HIV testing for pregnant women, setting up of non formal schools for child labourers, providing sanitation facilities in the tribal areas are also part of the yeoman service rendered by the Integrated Village Development Program founded by Mr. Kulandai Francis.
He says that living in poverty is terrible and wants to fulfil his obejctive of wiping out poverty from the Country.
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An ambitious plan is on the anvil to take the message of sanitation to every door step in villages. The objective will be to make the country free from open defecation free in 10 years.
To push the agenda forward, Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh has written a letter to Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad suggesting that the services of around eight lakh women volunteers of National Rural Health Mission can be utilized to promote awareness on sanitation in rural areas.
Ramesh said that his Ministry can also consider giving financial incentives every month to the Accredited Social Health Activist workers, ASHAS, for motivating villagers to build toilets.
He said the Ministry is ready to give them a performance based incentive of 75 rupees per toilet built.
To push the agenda forward, Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh has written a letter to Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad suggesting that the services of around eight lakh women volunteers of National Rural Health Mission can be utilized to promote awareness on sanitation in rural areas.
Ramesh said that his Ministry can also consider giving financial incentives every month to the Accredited Social Health Activist workers, ASHAS, for motivating villagers to build toilets.
He said the Ministry is ready to give them a performance based incentive of 75 rupees per toilet built.
The Government has chalked out a programme to make all the Two Lakh 60 thousand Gram Panchayats in the country free from open defecation in the next ten years. This was stated by the Minister of Drinking Water and Sanitation, Mr Jairam Ramesh while replying to questions in the Rajya Sabha today. He said out of the total Gram Panchyats, only 28,000 have been declared as Nirmal Gram Panchayats. The Minister said there is a huge gap between the data provided by the Census on sanitation and the data given by the state government agencies.
He said the government depends more on the information provided by Census. Mr Ramesh said the Union Budget for 2012-13 has made adequate allocations for safe drinking water. Replying to the main question, the Minister said the Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) is being implemented in 607 rural districts of the country.
He said the government depends more on the information provided by Census. Mr Ramesh said the Union Budget for 2012-13 has made adequate allocations for safe drinking water. Replying to the main question, the Minister said the Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) is being implemented in 607 rural districts of the country.
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