With reference to the Total Sanitation Campaign, consider the following statements -

Rural sanitation was addressed by the Government of India (GoI) in the 1980s through the Central Rural Sanitation Programme (CRSP). The CRSP "was staed in 1986 to provide sanitation facilities in rural areas. It was a supply driven, highly subsidy and infrastructure oriented programme". The conditions also varied substantially across the country. An all-India survey on conditions of drinking water, sanitation and hygiene during the period January to June, 1998 was carried out by the National Sample Survey Organisation, and results showed significant disparities across rural and urban populations: The propoion of households repoing that they had no bathroom was much higher in rural areas (81 percent) than in urban areas (35 percent). As many as 83 percent of households in rural areas repoed using no latrines as against only 26 percent in urban areas. Only about 8 percent and 1 percent of rural households repoed using a septic tank and sewerage system, compared to 35 percent and 22 percent of urban households. Similarly, the Central Bureau of Health Intelligence in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare repoed in 1998-99 that: On an average, 30 million persons in rural areas suffer from sanitation-related disease Five of the ten most dangerous fatal diseases of children aged from one to four in rural areas are related to water and sanitation Ref: Centre for public impact, GOI