Manish Kr. Khedawat

“RuRal Hygiene “

A Journey to “Golghoria”

What Hygiene Means ???

Hygiene refers to conditions and practices that

help to maintain health and prevent the spread of

diseases. Medical hygiene therefore includes a

specific set of practices associated with this

preservation of health.

For example :-

environmental cleaning

sterilization of equipment

water and sanitation

safe disposal of medical waste.

Reasons for Concerning ‘Rural Hygiene’

• The rural population of India comprises more

than 700 million people residing in about 1.42

million habitations spread over 15 diverse

ecological regions. So health issues

and cleanness in village has much

importance which is going to affect country’s

development.

• Essentially keeping a good standard of

hygiene helps to prevent the development

and spread of infections, illness and bad

odours .

• Being clean makes people confident as well as

having tidy surroundings around makes the

person of positive psychology which is essential

for development for villages.

Introduction

we conducted a survey with our group in

village ‘Golghoria’ situated at approximately 4

km from IIT Kharagpur Campus. The Survey

was done to get an overview of hygiene in

that village. Our presentation is based on the

existing hygiene and improvements that can

be done to improve their lifestyle.

The families we surveyed…

Rajendranath Dey

Jayanta Bhuiya

Dinesh

Chatopadhya

Shobha Dey

Deepu Dey

Shibu Dey

Pratima Pal

Ravindranath

Bhuiya

Kamala Aditya

Nitay Chand

Khagan Bhuiya

Ravi Patra

Biswanath Aditya

Objectives of the Survey

• To study the living conditions of village

people.

• To know the hygiene level in village.

• To know about their awareness and knowledge

about their hygiene level.

• To promote the good hygiene practice in village.

Observations …

Generally villagers are not aware of maintaining

required hygiene levels.

Many people usually take bath with dirty water of

pond due to shortage of clean water , which is

obviously dangerous to health.

The quality of food was not that good as material

sold by the greedy shopkeeper is impure .

No proper drainage system was observed.

No insecticides was given to the ponds as they

are a great source of producing mosquitos

causing diseases such as Malaria, Dengue.

Because of not much good facility regarding

health issues , people have to go far away for

their health treatment .

Water pulled up from the well are used for

drinking purposes without purifying them

properly.

pOSITIVE observations ><

Most houses have the facility of latrines and

bathroom in their home .

Villagers use Neem for cleaning their teeth

that avoid many oral problems naturally.

Villagers generally use clay and cow dung

mixture to paint their home walls and ground

which keeps insects and germs away due to

effect of cow dung.

Role of us

Our Role is to encourage and promote the

practice of good hygiene.

How ????

Suggestions , Here we go >>>

First villagers need to be more educated about

their hygiene . So we need to create awareness

by conducting hygiene camp in villages with the

help of government and NGOs. In which they

will be told the different parts and importance of

hygiene.

Most of the families have latrine in their houses

but still some don’t .we can encourage people

to have it .

Water used for drinking and cooking purposes

should be boiled before using it as it may have

bacterias and viruses.

Making of drainage channels or soak pits to

take dirty water away from wells and houses.

Washing fruits and vegetable before cutting

and keeping cooked food covered.

Pots that are being used in food taking should

be kept

clean after every use

Special Thanks……

to

Prof. S.C. Mahapatra

&

Prof. Bhowmick

who provided us a nice opportunity to

interact with villagers and to understand

their lives.