Sanitation issues in the country

There is this article in today's newspaper

http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-newdelhi/article3526123.ece

and it left me wondering about a lot of related things. I have seen this manual scavenging of human waste. When I was a little kid (~2-3 years old), we had a toilet at the roof of our old haveli, and this cleaning lady used to come with a vessel on her head, and would collect the waste in that vessel and leave and the pay she used to get was really minimal. She belonged to a backward class and a whole big group of these people used to live in a colony very separate from others.

Though I have thought about a lot of issues which we Indians are suffering from, this somehow never occurred to me till I saw the movie Aarakshan, where Saif Ali Khan mentions this in one of his fights. This doesn't happen now in my hometown as the sanitation has improved, but the article made me realize that it still happens in a big part of the country.

But when I read this article to the end, an even bigger question came to my mind. The solution which this article suggests, is that really effective? I mean do those Sulabh shauchalayas  actually solve the issue? This article talks about hygiene but let me ask you this : the ones which have been built under this scheme, are they hygienic? I have seen a lot of public washrooms and none of them was ever clean, not at all hygienic. Unhygienic washrooms can invite a lot of infectious diseases and otherwise also its just ughhhh....

My point is not that the solution is wrong, its just that the solution has not been thought through or it might be that its not implemented. Make people aware that they are responsible for these. May be appointing one or two people in all the public washrooms to tell people about their proper usage. Washrooms are maintained in office buildings, hospitals, malls and a lot of other places. Same can be the way to maintain the public ones.

What I want to say is that just building the washrooms doesn't solve the purpose! Keeping them clean does!