Adoption of selected sanitation technologies in rural families - An action research
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Date
2005
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CCSHAU
Abstract
To study the household sanitation problems in rural families, the
present investigation was carried out in ‘Dahima’ and ‘Bherian’ village of
Hisar district of Haryana State with the following objectives : To study the
existing health and sanitation conditions of selected rural families, to
impart knowledge and introduce selected sanitation technologies viz.
soakage pit and vermicomposting in the selected families and to analyze
the acceptability and constraints in adoption of selected technologies. The
requisite information was collected from 100 rural women respondents
(50 from each village) selected by simple random sampling techniques out
of 100 respondents, 45 respondents showed interest and came forward for
attending trainings and gaining knowledge on the two technologies. The results of the study revealed that the majority of the 100
respondents (46.0%) were 29-39 years old, belonged to nuclear family
(72.0%), had 3-5 members in their family (59.0%), belonged to low caste
(47.0%), were illiterate (75.0%), had farming as their main family
occupation (45.0%), had low mass media exposure (68.0%) and had nil
social participation (89.0%). Existing sanitary conditions of the
respondents’ families were not found satisfactory. Most of them were
living in unhygienic conditions and followed unhygienic practices.
Lecture-cum-method demonstration and posters were used to educate
them on selected sanitation technologies viz. vermi-composting and
soakage pit.
There was significant gain in knowledge and change in attitude at
the post exposure stage for the two technologies which was studied on the
45 respondents. Actual adoption was found low (10 families adopted each
technology), while acceptability was found to be of medium level for both
technologies. Economic, socio-cultural, technological, situational and time
related constraints / reasons were observed to be the main constraints /
reasons in acceptance of the two technologies.