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it's good to have you with us imagine having to walk through the field of forest every time you want to use the toilet this is a reality for millions in my home country india to tackle it the government in twenty fourteen. of completely eliminating opened by october this year more than one hundred ten million toilets are expected to be built under the so-called india. the government is claiming that twenty seven thirty six states. are now free of the problem but a nationwide study. has found otherwise we'll speak to a researcher in a bit but first this report from our correspondent sonya who traveled to the recent town of. to find out more. it's a must. the lush fields here where both harbor

a dirty secret. has never had a toilet. she has to walk more than a kilometer every day to relieve us of a ritual fought with indignity of andrus. many nights we have to carry a torch and the stick i come here with other women and young children we stand watch first because the children get scared there are wild animals in the fields sometimes there are men around it is scary it's safer to come in a group. luvvies experience is a chop odds with the government's much touted campaign to eliminate often difficult . signs warn of the health risks associated with the practice and urged people to use toilets. and he pushed the clean india effort has even roped in bollywood stars to spread the message board the government offers twelve thousand

that's about one hundred fifty euros more to your house so it's only in villages. as part of the clean india campaign the government cleans the building hundreds of millions of toilets it says is a completely eliminated open difficult mission in most indian states but in the villages be visited in the british bath with far from being the case. in one village the toilets stand half built many residency the haven't received the food subsidy the facilities here are missing roofs and seeds and a very obviously not a news. this is like this month's it the toilets being built on too flimsy and wouldn't last long but there are allegations of caution to. me that the government did give the money for a story out at a price. the head of the village told us if we don't get toilets made we will get subsidized food grain those are orders from the motor government we are poor people

we really depend on the food handouts so i decided to build the toilet. it's. back at the place another irregularity emerges. the clean india website declares hope ilitch to be free of often difficult with two hundred thirty four toilets installed but that doesn't add up and i doubt there are just about four or five people in our village who have toilets you can check yourself how can the government say all of us have toilets that's just wrong there is collusion among the officials no one has ever come here to check. these toilet tales new for research and as a college he's visited about eighty villages across the state for much cited study on the campaigns and the corruption story is every bit you saw for yourself right don't look to don't exist is just on a paper official don't really use my me on this for themselves if there is

something really serious. runs the campaign not to put h he says the ghost story that income of these village definitely need investigation but he insists it's an isolated case it is very serious and we are very very very big restrict actions if somebody is phone who do false information or. what i think there's no murder should not be very large and the picture which i'm going to do that this open division almost has come down to. us. as. she stood waiting for her promise toilet down i asked for data and i think she's already marked a place for it in front of parole. joining me know the line is another of khalid he's a research fellow from the research institute for compassionate economics in delhi

another good to see you know your organization has conducted research and you're on the phone with that corruption has been a part of this campaign that the debate has been dogged by corruption what exactly the girl uncovered here so one thing to note is that corruption in this clean india program is definitely less than what it was in previous programs but. places like beyond you know corruptions really come in the way of implementing this it has slowed down the pace of construction of latrines and you know so that is why i. like the how it is lagging behind now the report also mentions most of the people are being coerced into building towards what is not happening yeah that's true so a lot of course in is happening it's very common people are being threatened with fight loss of loss of. people in fines loss of grains loss of pension extra reason is because you know the government is. the government

has set for target by it wants to eliminate open defecation completely in india and it had chosen to focus a lot on. construction another day on the kinds of that in their communities promoting has smaller precise and and also expand inexpensive to construct but at the same time people. have notions believes. which make them not to use small appears they want larger size that means we have expensive to construct and that is why you know so so they don't have and at the same time they don't have enough money to construct these expensive vitrines so government has to use certain some force in order to make people construct these their dreams. right so in your view has the clean india can be achieved anything at all or has it been

a complete failure no i wouldn't see i wouldn't say that it has been a complete failure it has accelerated the b.s. of construction in india which has led to substantially declining in open defecation but then the claim that is being made is that. going to fiction is all but eliminated but there is that is very feel that this is not true. so just that forty four percent of people in india in tulane in northern parts still defecate in the open so. and also you know the thing about the beliefs of beats and not using smaller pieces these are related to your notions of you know not wanting to clean their own feet and the government has this was a great opportunity for the government to address these wrongly placed notions and make people understand the significance of these inexpensive smaller people or trains right now as i call it from the research institute for compassionate

economics in delhi thank you very much for speaking to us. and some feedback from our u two page on yesterday's story on obama and the prospects of peace with the taliban we asked why the of government doesn't have a seat at the table to that of this response from k. back up the afghan government is a puppet government put in place by the united states they don't represent the afghan people i think the fall of the us leaves also a response to the young of congress featured who feared a rollback of freedoms could be the price of peace with the taliban. how long can they expect foreign soldiers and taxpayers to support their lifestyle if they want to live life style there must be structure fires if they are unwilling to fight the taliban would suppress them we welcome some more of your comments please join the conversation on our you tube. moving on now it's a gold star where there are more living then dead dozens of homeless families have

made do with the nooks and crannies of a cemetery in cambodia capital city. while they're happy to live amongst the dearly departed hungry developers may have other plans. home sweet home among the tombstones in the smaller sun slum the living keep company with the dead. that's despite the superstition that runs strong here in cambodia the main religion buddhism dictates bodies should be cremated where the spirit remains stuck between one life and the next. these crates are mostly chinese and vietnamese with un cremated corpses but the cemetery two others no longer believe in ghosts. when we first came here we were scared. we were actually very scared scared that we would see something you know dreams. but when we never saw anything we stopped being afraid. that what. the kids on scared of school some of them don't even know

what this place is. i have no idea. when they see skeletons from a freshly dug grave it doesn't worry them. for most people a graveyard means the end but for many here it was a new beginning sunroom ali moved here sixteen years ago her old home next to the mekong river was swept away by floods. around. after the river collapsed we didn't have the means to move away or rent a place anywhere else. we were scared but we still moved here. and just across the river from the cemetery lies diamond island a gem of phnom penh skyline forty years after the communist kuma rouge private property is back in vogue fueling

a real estate boom. from above the scale of the city's make over becomes clear. some here worry even this cemetery still visited by relatives of the deceased is too great a temptation for developers. cama these are the graves of people's ancestors who they have been worshipping for a very long time even the people who live here don't go around disturbing the graves of graves and the people exist alongside each other we don't harm each other . but the people of smaller son may be happy to let the dead rest in peace the onward march of progress may not like them. that's of them are you can find more online. and don't forget to check out the. book as well. and removing all that seems from bangkok which is deployed as a new tactic in its battle against

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