Unveiling the Nexus: Sanitation, Hygiene, and Livelihoods in the Pursuit of Sustainable Development Goals - A Bibliometric Exploration

Abstract

In the United Nations 17 SDGs the sixth policy is clean water and sanitation. One of the most off-track millenniums sustainable goals is sanitation, still 1.7 million people lacks proper basic facility. Globally 3.5 billion people lack proper access to own sanitation, mean they have to open defecate or to depend on other public usage or their neighbours for their relief. Poor sanitation cost health and hygiene and impact the economy very badly. In the digital era, where smart cities and urbanization is happening, still our people defecate openly. The research follows a systematic literature review using VOSVIEWER for analysis and to identify the existing situation prevailing with respect to sanitation in India. The paper aims to address these issues. The database sourced is dimensions. The research takes the support of secondary data from reliable sources like Statista, WHO, UN data base to project the existing facilities obtained by Rural and Urban India. The review paper results that there is gap exist in addressing the sanitation and hygiene in India. Behavioral transformation is the key for the transformation, but people resist to change is one of the prime observations made. Ruthless data say men and women squat next to each other to defecate. To achieve the goal of Sustainable development our land, environment has to be preserved for future generation, where in it is the most crucial time to focus on our sanitation as India stands highest in population.