YouthAid.in
One stop shop solution to Sanitation & Hygiene
Crisis in India.
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… Due to bone TB Rajaram was forced to live with disability. He would be carried by
his son for defecating in the open. To avoid this embarrassment Rajaram would eat
less so he would defecate once in 2 to 3 days. Today with a toilet in his home, his life
has transformed.
…. So also many women, adolescent girls in India. They eat less, they control
themselves so that they wait for darkness to defecate in the open, which is equally
threat to their lives.
…Jewellery is often considered most precious to Indian women and she doesn’t prefer
to diverge from herself. But for Pappy, a marginalized rural women from Jahangirpura
village in MP, toilet is more important than her jewellery. She decided to mortgage her
silver jewellery for constructing household toilet.
1. Introduction.
Open Defecation is one of the causes for majority of illness in the country for which the poor
spend their hard earned money on treatment as well as lose of days of employment. Almost
594 million people defecate open in India. If India to be open defecation free nation she
requires 111 million toilets. Government provides an incentive of Rs 12,000 for toilet as part
of Swachch Baharat mission. If this is minimum required for a single toilet then the total cost
of Toilet construction in India is Rs. 1332,000 Million worth business. In Madhya Pradesh alone
there is requirement of 9 million toilets to make the state open defecation free. Since the
government of India has considered Swachch Bharat Mission (Gramin) a priority and an
achievable dream by 2019 there is a scope for doing business in toilet construction sector and
improve the lives of millions of poor in the country.
At present the government of India construct 5 million toilets per year. If this trends continues
it will take 25 years to make India open defecation free. During the 25 years the loss on
exchequer by way of cost of medicine and malnourishment will be too high. As per UNICEF
report almost 200,000 children die per year in India due to diarrhoea which is due to lack of
proper sanitation facilities in rural India.
To achieve Open Defecation free status the
government of India has to construction 20 million toilets per year. The present rate of
construction does not help in any way to achieve this and this requires private entrepreneurs.
In order to contribute to the larger Swachch Bharat Mission, YouthAid Global Services Pvt Ltd
proposes to support the government mission to bring a halt to sanitation crisis in the country.
2. Challenges to make India Open Defecation Free
Though government is providing incentives through the village panchayats as well as
beneficiaries, these incentives are not reaching all. Especially the early adopters of sanitation
who built toilets for Rs 500 almost a decade before. They are the poor, SC/ST, whose toilets
are already defunct are deprived of increased incentives from the government. They are
required to be supported through INGOs, Corporates etc to ensure minimum facilities of
sanitation. They are more vulnerable to diseases unlike the rich and urban population.
However the major challenge for improving sanitation situation in the country is lack of
masons, ready to use materials and work in speed and scale. Imagine the number of masons
required to construct 110 million toilets where it would take minimum 5 mason days to make
a toilets, imagine number of labourers required to make a toilets which is amounting to 6 days
per toilets. This effort will help to revise rural economy, give employment to millions of rural
and urban population in the country. YouthAid.in will contribute to this efforts.
3. Leach pit a solution to rural sanitation crisis
The Swachch Bharat Mission (SBM) provides funds as incentive for the low- cost
“leach-pit” toilet but proposes that people must build their own toilets as per their own
preferences. While this approach appears sound in theory, experience of the last two
decades suggests that this “do-it-yourself” approach will not work. In order to achieve
the goal of a country free from open defecation in a finite time period (by 2019) an
efficient supply chain is absolutely essential. If this supply chain is operated and
managed by private sector there will be obvious efficiencies. This aspect has been
studied recently by the World Bank, and other international agencies (SNV
Consultants, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, among others) in Asia. Management
experts from Deloitte Consultants have been studying the situation and have come up
with the concept of “Turn-key solution providers”, who can constitute the supply chain.
The role of private service providers in accelerating rural sanitation program in five
Asian countries- Bhutan, Laos, Cambodia, Nepal and Vietnam- has been documented
by the IRC and SNV lately, and they draw important lessons from their work. The
importance of making risk and investment on Enterprises (SMEs) has to be a core part
of a business model for sanitation programming the part of small and medium
4. Supply chain for toilets in Madhya Pradesh:
YouthAid.in has been working in 2015 in Barwani districts of Madhya Pradesh
motivating the rural poor households to construct toilets and use them. However the
households are not able to get good services in rural areas due to various reasons like
collection of materials from different sources, lack of trained masons etc.
YouthAid.in provides a turn-key solution to entire sanitation supply chain gaps to
provide one stop solution to toilet as a composite unit to the customer.
5. Our Experience as turn-key solution provider
The initial efforts to support government in improving Sanitation access was begun in
Barwani district by engaging with Districts and Block Swachch Bharat Mission.
In Mahad block of Raigarh district of Maharashtra YouthAid.in has been providing
turn-key solution to sanitation services by constructing toilet with the support of
Swadesh Foundation. Already two Villages have been made open defecation free by
motivating people to construct toilets as well as to use them. Though the terrain is hard
and difficult to reach our masons and labourers are contributing to this difficult tasks
where a team of 30 masons 50 labourers engaged in constructing toilers since January
2016.
6. A viable business proposal
YouthAid.in proposes to support the government to make 100,000 toilets by October
2019 when the prime minister of India declare India Open Defecation free. This means
youthaid.in has to support to make 36000 toilets per year, while 3000 toilets per month.
This requires 600 people to be trained as masons and identify 1200 labourers. Each
mason will earn minimum 200 dollar per month while each labourer will earn 150 dollar
per month. YouthAid.in proposes to initiate 5 one stop shops in five high priority states
in the country which constitutes more than 60% of the people who are open defecating
in India, which constitutes a huge number of world open defecators. If India achieves
open defecation free, then the world will. This project is going to support that efforts.
These states are Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar
and Orissa. Each unit will have 120 masons and 240 labourers who forms to support
to make 600 toilets per month per states and totally 3000 toilets in 5 states. This
program is going to engage 1800 labourers (including 600 masons), along with huge
demand for bricks, cement and other construction materials which contribute to rural
employment opportunities. If each toilet requires 1000 bricks, there is a demand for
30, 00,000 bricks per month which will contribute to rural employment guarantee
through this project alone. Each unit will be managed by a YouthAid.in entrepreneur
and supported by 3 supervisors.
What is most important is that by helping rural and poor population to defecate safe,
we are contributing to reduce the decease burden among the poor and also make
them to work without being sick. This contributes to the GDP of the country
enormously. After three years YouthAid.in intends to invest in areas like faecal sludge
management as well as solid and liquid waste management of rural and urban
communities in the country benefiting millions of poor.
However we like to inform that YouthAid.in is a starts up incorporated in the company
act in November 2015 and we have a seven staff and 50 workers presently with a
turnover of 50,000 Dollar by end March 2016. We are hopeful to reach 300,000 dollar
worth company by March 2017. Finally we like to share that we have a very
experienced team who have expertise in managing sanitation projects in the country.
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