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On World Toilet Day, a look at India’s sanitation data and the ground realities
19/11/2020 10:54 PM | Click to read full article
Even though the UN aims to eliminate open defecation by 2030, PM Modi’s government had declared India to be open defecation free in October 2019 itself. Modi had announced that more than 600 million people in India had been provided with toilets.
The 76th National Sample Survey found that as of September 2018, 28.7 per cent people in Indian rural households lacked access to toilets, while 32 per cent practised open defecation.
