In this April 20, 2015 file photo, an Indian man sleeps on the roof of his house at a shanty area in New Delhi, India. But in Taimoor Nagar, a slum just outside one of the city’s poshest neighborhoods, hundreds of people rely on a single public toilet, underscoring the challenges that remain for India’s urban poor. The numbers in the government’s ambitious Swachh Bharat, or Clean India, program are staggering. The summit — with a keynote address by U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday — overshadows the struggles with open defecation that remain in the heart of India’s capital. UNICEF’s executive director, Henrietta Fore, told The Associated Press on Monday that the water and sanitation industry could potentially employ huge numbers of India’s urban poor, destigmatizing the work.

Source: Washington Post October 01, 2018 06:44 UTC