In spite of several schemes promoting construction of toilets, one finds that people are not constructing the household toilets as the policy makers would hope for. Why is it so? Various surveys by monitoring agencies (including ours) suggest some answers.
Lack of finance is one of the main reasons for not constructing toilets. This is true of both BPL and APL (surprisingly) families. This is the most often cited reason.
In many households, people don’t feel any need of having toilet in their premises and so they do not construct the toilet. This is absolute lack of awareness regarding sanitation and hygiene in spite of the several programs targeting awareness generation under execution. This is true for almost 1/3rd of the population.
There is a feeling in general in the rural segment that government schemes would eventually lead to subsidy. Many people (almost 25%) do not construct because they expect a subsidy announcement sooner or later. This is linked to lack of finance pointed out. These amounts are significant for them and they are willing to postpone in the hope of subsidy.
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