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The
second study, on environment, pertained to one of the
strategies to clean up the catchment area of the river Yamuna.
The strategy was related to the fact that unless a hygienic
and eco-friendly way of releasing and disposing off the fecal
matter is devised as well as technique that caters to lesser
intake of wood for cremation purposes in the drainage basin of
Yamuna, no amount of good work will help rejuvenating the
river. Thus, both Haryana and Delhi governments entered into
tied-up financing with Japanese Bank International Corporation
(JBIC) for constructing scores of public conveniences. The
units were strategically located in and around areas where
public spaces were being desecrated. The units were further
handed over to Sulabh International in Haryana and some other
NGOs in the NCT of Delhi for maintenance purposes. The
Research Team has completed its field work and is in the
process of analyzing the huge corpus of data that the
evaluation study has generated. It has, however, gathered some
major policy gaps on part of maintenance as well as
implementing agencies. These policy gaps pertain to
overcharging from users and gross discrepancies in the
maintenance of income registers by the maintenance staff which
has directly led to the low use of these units. The
implementing agencies were caught on the wrong foot for
creating very large units in areas of less users and vice
versa. As far as the crematoria, based on a new technology
that uses less firewood, is concerned, it was found that
either they were not in use or were being used for cremating
unclaimed dead bodies. The rationale that behind this was that
proper arrangement for their appropriate usage had not been
made.
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