This article flashed across the internet gave a jolt to the average Indian, and put us all in the perplexity mind set… are we developed or nowhere near it.. Where are we heeding?

Even where there is no toilet, you can find a mobile subscriber… good for the mobile company to boast about on its advertisements. But on the other hand it looks really pathetic situation right out there and imagine! the signals we might be sending to the exterior world. A recent survey conducted by the `Census of India’s House listing and Housing Census Data’ highlights the point, which makes us ponder. Of a total of 246,692,667 hose holds, both rural and urban scanned by the officials nearly 53.2 per cent of them had mobile phones while only 46.9 per cent had toilets. Sounds ridiculous and the government must really take steps on a war footing to get out of this situation. It is rather a disgrace that our brethren are living even without basic sanitation facilities.

With improper sanitation where does the public opt for, `open defection.’ People with the basic science knowledge will surely realize to what extent this is harmful and what an ignominy it is to the nation’s image. Forget the exterior décor, what a humiliation to the mankind. There was a real uproar in the political circles and the media when the Minister for Rural Development and Drinking Water and Sanitation Jairam Ramesh tossed a teaser, ‘Why do women want mobile phones more than toilets,’ before an august gathering during the launch of the UN’s 2011-12 Asia Pacific Regional report on Millennium Development Goals.

But no one had the guts to say that the party that had nearly ruled the country for more than four decades since Independence could not even provide basic amenities to the common man…. Where is the development?

I was just wondering if so much has to be done, how so much money could walk out of the country, without looking into the needs of the people. (With inputs from internet- AarKay)