*sigh*
Anybody... everybody... should immediatly get that this is a lie, just by looking at the map.
Let me do a 2-minute McResearch:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/03/world/asia/india-toilet-movie.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...ory.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.1908b18ed58b
Quoting from the above articles:
"India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, troubled by how many Indians still relieve themselves in the open, has vowed to build a staggering 100 million new toilets.
All across the country, new latrines are going up, sometimes so fast they are not connected to anything, creating toilets to nowhere that are so fly-ridden and stinky that almost no one will use them."
"Government officials say they have spent $4 billion to help install 50 million toilets so far, building community latrines and providing subsidies for people to put them in their homes. The Modi government runs a website bestowing on top-performing villages a special “ODF” (Open Defecation Free) status."
"To win favor with the ruling party's top brass, government officials have set to work, trying to outpace one another with toilet-building races and eye-catching information campaigns. Many are resorting to controversial public shaming tactics.
[...]
India is vast and difficult to govern; in outlying regions such as Beed, where central control is weak and corruption levels high,"
"Some argue that Modi is overly optimistic about the pace of change. 'No country anywhere in the world has come anywhere close to eliminating open defecation that fast,' said economist Dean Spears, a sanitation expert, referring to the 2019 target. 'There's no reason to think this is going to be an exception. It's very easy to say that it's a behavioral-change program. But when 500 to 600 million people defecate in the open, you need an awful lot of people on the ground to change that.'"
"Every morning in this district in rural India, teams of government employees and volunteer 'motivators' roam villages to publicly shame those who relieve themselves in the open. The 'good-morning squads' are part of what one official called 'the largest behavioral-change program anywhere in the world.'"
"Rural women sometimes endure taunts and even sexual assault when they relieve themselves outdoors, so they travel in small groups, often before dawn, for protection."
"Not helping matters, hard-liners with the governing Bharatiya Janata Party, or B.J.P., have photographed women who relieve themselves outside in an effort to shame them. Earlier this year, a man who stood up for such women was beaten to death."
https://news.trust.org/item/20171027134652-neohr
"A flagship government programme to modernise India's sanitation has failed to tackle the practice of low caste women clearing faeces by hand, and has even exacerbated the problem by building toilets not connected to water supplies, campaigners say.
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But Dalit communities, especially women, are still forced to be manual scavengers, a euphemism for clearing faeces from dry toilets and open drains by hand, despite laws to end the practice. The workers have it harder now, activists said."
https://www.indiatoday.in/india/raj...eward-corruption-rajasthan-1054904-2017-09-29
Headline says it all:
"Money siphoned off under Swachh Bharat Mission Scheme due to possible collusion at ground level"
TL;DR:
1. They claim to be building 100 million "toilets".
2. Of that they claim to have build roughly half (which magically still had allmost the full effect).
3. They actually didn't. -> Potemkin.
4. What they built (probably way less than 52 million) are mostly communal outhouses with no water connection.
5. People mostly don't use them (and then very ugly things happen); but sometimes people do use them (and then very ugly things happen).
6. The whole thing costs about 9 billion dollars. 90$ per "toilet" (real or imagined).
That's 90$ including bureaucracy, massive caroonishly ginormous corruption, public service announcements, lynch mob level paid harrassment campaigns, that whole "rewards" programm etc.
Never mind the actual toilets.
He just felt the need to "gotcha" people who off-handedly mused or joked about a drive-by map in a serial thread.
