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A new study by WaterAid India shows that only 26.3 per cent of parents washed their hands before feeding their children.
Wrong hygiene behaviour is a leading cause of death and disease, particularly diarrhoea among children under the age of five.
The study, titled ‘Spotlight on Handwashing in Rural India’, examines the level of awareness about practices related to hand hygiene behaviour in rural households in four states namely Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Odisha.
A total of 1,319 respondents participated in this study, of which 57.1 per cent were women and 42.9 per cent were men. Of the total sample, 407 respondents (30.6
