Re: [India_Vision_2020] Dr Santhosh Babu, our member is featured in the Top 10 Achievers of 2008

Thank you for the encouragement and the words of wisdom Mr Babu. We are all with you together on this trip to transform rural India. A lot of us have been thinking for a very long time about the paucity of toilets in not only homes of India but also in public spaces. Those that are there are in really nasty conditions and not usable most of the time. 

There was a period when we attempted to build some toilets in one community that lived near one of Mumbai's famous 'pipelines',  but attempts to get government permission to do so fell flat on its face, as the Mumbai Corporation and the BMC kept pointing at each other on the question of who owned the land where we wanted to build the toilet. 

So, how do you suggest we go about planning to build toilets in rural homes? Like you said, funds are not a problem, but how do we  plan this out? Sorry if this is an elementary question, but I really am at a loss for ideas here.

Thanks and Regards,
Varun Rangarajan
DreamIndia
www.DreamIndia2020.org
The Life is short; the vanities of world are transient but they alone live who live for others;
The rest are more dead than alive - Swami Vivekananda

On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 1:11 AM, Dr.Santhosh Babu <santynits@yahoo.com> wrote:

Dear friends,

May I thank you for your compliments!

It would be a great privilege for me to work with youngsters like, for you have the fire in your belly for change and quick change at that. I truly believe that it is possible to transform our rural areas in a very short span of lets say 5 years, if (and only if) we ensure that every child of school going age is in school and not outside and every house has a toilet.These two are the sin qua non for development. Once they reach at least the 10th std, it is possible to equip them with skills to transform them into world class workers for our manufacturing and IT industries. ( for our industries are today crying for skilled manpower) Thus if we could take a leaf from our Great Dr.Kalam's vision, we could Provide Urban Opportunities in Rural Areas (PURA). Funds are not a constraint at all today.

Looking forward to working with each one of you in Totally Transforming India,

I remain

Yours sincerely

Dr.Santhosh Babu, IAS.,MD, ELCOT, Director, E-Governance, Govt. of Tamil Nadu,Chennai - 600035
044-42152200(ELCOT)
044-24336643(TNeGA)
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santynits@yahoo.com (Per), md@elcot.in, ceotnega@tn.gov.in,
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