ANALYSIS OF STATUS AND DISPARITIES IN ACCESS TO TOILET FACILITY IN KARNATAKA

The World Health Organization (WHO) recognizes sanitary facilities as an important indicator to assess the quality of health. The NFHS also documents that sanitary facility is the main pillar to lead a comfortable, dignied and safe life. Lack of these facilities would lead to a lot many water borne diseases. This paper tries to analyze the status and disparities in access to toilet facility. The present paper used secondary cross-section data collected from NFHS. The appropriate statistical techniques like, t-test, F-test and Scheffe' s multiple comparison. It is found from the study that access to toilet facility is signicantly high in urban area compared to rural area. Access to toilet facility is signicantly low in Kalburgi and Belgavi and signicantly high in Bengaluru and Mysuru. Access to toilet facility in urban places of Karnataka is signicantly low in Kalburgi and Belgavi and signicantly high in Bengaluru and Mysuru. Access to toilet facility in rural places of Karnataka is signicantly low in Kalburgi and Belgavi and signicantly high in Bengaluru and Mysuru. Hence, access to toilet facility is signicantly low in rural Karnataka, and further, it is signicantly low in Kalburagi and Belagavi. Hence, there is need of proper state interventions for ruling out differences between urban and rural areas. At the same time, state has to give more focus to Kalburagi and Belagavi to have region specic programmes to increase the toilet facilities.