• Obara Lawrence Obworo
• Dr. P. Anandharajakumar

Abstract Sanitation and Hygiene plays a vital role in people’s life in relation to promoting people’s health and whole wellbeing of the society. There are various components which consists rural sanitation and hygiene ranging from waste management of both liquid and solid which may be bio-degradable or non-bio-degradable, safe drinking water, proper housing structure, food and personal hygiene, domestic as well as environmental hygiene (Durgaprasad et al., 1997). For a society to develop including the interior rural areas, sanitation and hygiene ought to be given a priority. This will ensure health of people as well as that of the environment is improved and sustainable. The failure or success of a community’s health is determined by the capacity to close all the sources of germs which if not prevented can be disastrous to people and the environment as a whole. Though various strategies, schemes and efforts have been made by Indian central and state governments, private sector, NGOs, VOs and like mindedness, still one is able to observe a gap between the input and output which is an alarming sign. In this paper, the study analyses current state of rural sanitation and hygiene. Application of findings of the study can be significant for policy making and opportunity for further research.

Status, Sanitation, Sanitary complex, Hygiene.

"Status of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene in the Households of select Gram Panchayats, of Dindigul district, Tamil Nadu.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.111-119, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907473.pdf

"Status of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene in the Households of select Gram Panchayats, of Dindigul district, Tamil Nadu.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp111-119, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907473.pdf