<p>Authorities in Barabanki district have come up with a novel way to prevent the rising crimes against the women in the rural areas. <br /><br /></p>.<p>They plan to build toilets at their homes.<br /><br />The district administration feels that women are more exposed to danger when they have to go out in the open to answer the call of nature. <br /><br />“Women are most vulnerable when they go out in the open. Their vulnerability increases when they have to go out in odd hours. After the dark and before the sun rise,” said a district official. <br /><br />The administration observed that the women were abducted or raped when they were out at odd hours. It hopes that the crime rate can be brought down if they had toilet facilities at their houses. <br /><br />The district administration conducted a survey to ascertain the number of rural homes without toilets.<br /><br />“The survey found that there were three lakh families without toilets in the rural areas,” the official said.<br /><br />Funds from other schemes<br /><br />The authority now plans to build toilets at their homes. The officials said each toilet would cost Rs 10,000.<br /><br /> “The beneficiaries will not have to pay anything. The required funds will be arranged from other welfare schemes,” he added.<br /><br />The authorities hope that the incidents of crime against the women will come down once the plan, which will be taken up in phases, is implemented completely.<br /><br />During the past few months, at least three brides in UP’s backward districts in the eastern region, showed their preference for toilets over their married life and refused to live with their husbands as there were no toilet facilities at their homes.<br /><br />One of the brides even consumed some poisonous substance at her husband’s home in Kushinagar district when her demand for a toilet was not met by her in-laws. She was rushed to a hospital where the doctors saved her.<br /><br />Another bride Jyoti Yadav also left her husband’s home in Sant Kabir Nagar district on Monday, when she did not find a toilet there. <br /><br />She gave a month’s time to her in-laws and husband to construct a toilet failing which, she said, she would opt for divorce.<br /><br />Over two crores homes in Uttar Pradesh have no toilets, according to the data from Census 2011, the people living in 1.48 crore houses have to take bath in the open.</p>
<p>Authorities in Barabanki district have come up with a novel way to prevent the rising crimes against the women in the rural areas. <br /><br /></p>.<p>They plan to build toilets at their homes.<br /><br />The district administration feels that women are more exposed to danger when they have to go out in the open to answer the call of nature. <br /><br />“Women are most vulnerable when they go out in the open. Their vulnerability increases when they have to go out in odd hours. After the dark and before the sun rise,” said a district official. <br /><br />The administration observed that the women were abducted or raped when they were out at odd hours. It hopes that the crime rate can be brought down if they had toilet facilities at their houses. <br /><br />The district administration conducted a survey to ascertain the number of rural homes without toilets.<br /><br />“The survey found that there were three lakh families without toilets in the rural areas,” the official said.<br /><br />Funds from other schemes<br /><br />The authority now plans to build toilets at their homes. The officials said each toilet would cost Rs 10,000.<br /><br /> “The beneficiaries will not have to pay anything. The required funds will be arranged from other welfare schemes,” he added.<br /><br />The authorities hope that the incidents of crime against the women will come down once the plan, which will be taken up in phases, is implemented completely.<br /><br />During the past few months, at least three brides in UP’s backward districts in the eastern region, showed their preference for toilets over their married life and refused to live with their husbands as there were no toilet facilities at their homes.<br /><br />One of the brides even consumed some poisonous substance at her husband’s home in Kushinagar district when her demand for a toilet was not met by her in-laws. She was rushed to a hospital where the doctors saved her.<br /><br />Another bride Jyoti Yadav also left her husband’s home in Sant Kabir Nagar district on Monday, when she did not find a toilet there. <br /><br />She gave a month’s time to her in-laws and husband to construct a toilet failing which, she said, she would opt for divorce.<br /><br />Over two crores homes in Uttar Pradesh have no toilets, according to the data from Census 2011, the people living in 1.48 crore houses have to take bath in the open.</p>
