U. B. Singh – författare

U.B. Singh, Ph.D. in Human Resource Development. He got a fellowship under Colombo Plan at the University College of London. He has undertaken a number of research studies on various facets of public administration in general and in rural and urban administration in particular. He has organized a series of executive development programmes for the senior and middle level officials engaged in urban government in the states of U.P., M.P., Bihar and Orissa; and also Co-ordinated training and monitoring workshops under DFID (UK) and supported Indore Habitat Improvement Project. He is member of a number of professional associations and Institutions including All India Association of Public Administration, Indian Association of Political Science, Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi; a prolific writer in the urban field, he had contributed a large number of papers to various International and National Seminars and has more than fifty papers/articles published in reputed journals.

The book is a non-technical guide for popularizing household sanitation. It becomes necessary in view of growing urban population, diminishing household areas, and increasing degradation of urban environment, especially in densely inhabited localities in big cities. It discusses a number of options for maintaining qualitative sanitation at individual household level. These options are cheap and easy to maintain and upkeep. The much ambitious Swachh Bharart Mission incentivized construction of crores of individual household, community, and public toilets across the country in the last five years with sole aim of making the country open defecation free. Our cities are not covered fully with the sewerage network. There is no proper arrangement for disposing the sewage. The sullage of newly constructed toilets may make the city environment more dirty and complex, if not handled properly. This necessitates proper planning for managing the faecal sludge and septage, in advance.