Devalaya and Shauchalaya

Addressing Socio-Economic Inclusions

Authors

  • Arjun Kumar PhD Scholar (Economics) at Centre for the Study of Regional Development, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. E mail: arjun40_ssf@jnu.ac.in

Keywords:

Sanitation, Socio-Economic Groups, Weaker Sections, Inclusion, Quality of Life

Abstract

Recent debates over ‘Devalaya and Shauchalaya’ have foregrounded the importance and need of access to sanitation facilities, besides the places of worship, for raising the standard of life. This paper assesses their changes using data from the Census of India, 2001 and 2011and the National Sample Survey’s Housing Conditions Rounds unit record data from 1993 and 2008/09. Households in rural India and those belonging to weaker sections of society such as Scheduled Tribes, Scheduled Castes, Agricultural Labourers (rural), Casual Labourers (urban) and Poor households were found noticeably lagging and most excluded in access to sanitation. Thus, there is a need for more attention towards sanitation facilities, especially in rural India and focus on the inclusion of various weaker sections of society to raise the overall quality of life and well-being.

References

GOI. (2012). Guidelines, Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan. New Delhi: Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation, Government of India.

GOI. (2011). Faster, Sustainable and More Inclusive Growth: An Approach to 12th Five Year Plan. New Delhi: Planning Commission, Government of India.

Kumar, A. (2014). Access to Basic Amenities: Aspects of Caste, Ethnicity and Poverty in Rural and Urban India—1993 to 2008–2009. Journal of Land and Rural Studies, 2(1), 127-148.

Thorat, S., & Dubey , A. (2012). Has Growth Been Socially Inclusive during 1993-94 – 2009-10? Economic and Political Weekly, XLVII(10).

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Published

2014-06-01

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Kumar , A. (2014). Devalaya and Shauchalaya : Addressing Socio-Economic Inclusions . Journal of Studies in Dynamics and Change (JSDC), 1(2). Retrieved from https://jsdconline.com/journal/jsdc/index.php/home/article/view/26

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Vol. 1 No. 2 (2014): June 2014

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