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6.3 Costs and Financial Aspects
The details in relation to the costs
shared by the people surveyed inside
the blocks for the various sanitation
options are included in Table A-4.4 in
Appendix 4. Figure 6.3 summarizes the
costs during different periods. It may be
recalled that during the presentation
of the survey results in relation to
willingness to pay, it was found that
almost nobody was willing to share
costs for sanitation, and accordingly
Figure 6.3 indicates that before the
biogas option, most of the people did
not want to share costs or invest money
into sanitation. However, during the
1996-1999 period, when the biogas
option was first introduced, it may be
noted that though there was more of a
willingness to pay for sanitation among
the people, the invested amount for
the biogas option was still quite low as
most of the people did not have access
to it. During the 1999-Present period,
there was an increase in the amount
people invested into sanitation due to
the accessibility of the biogas facilities.
During the first testing of the option no
cost was requested, but subsequently,
the community was asked to share
the costs. The costs were shared by
the relevant users of a biogas bases
sewerage system, and the amount
paid by plot owners were not the
same; it varied according to how much
each plot owner could afford. The cost
sharing for the biogas system increased
significantly over time. Figure 6.4 shows
the trend in relation to the sharing of
the biogas system installation costs (it
may be noted here that the installation
cost shared among the people during
1999 varied between either 20 or 30%).
The people were reportedly satisfied with the performance of the
biogas option as most of them claimed that it
was acceptable in the 1999-Present period (Table 6.2). Before the
year 1999, almost all expressed dissatisfaction
with the then available option, which were pit latrines.
Table 6.2: Claimed performance of the sanitation options*.
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