Toilets In Rural India

Over 16.34 crore rural households in the country have access to toilets and highest of them are in Uttar Pradesh, Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat said in Lok Sabha today.

Only about 50.3 per cent of the households in the rural and about 75.0 per cent in the urban areas had exclusive access to toilets during July-December 2018, according to the findings of National Sample Survey (NSS).

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said rural India has declared itself open defecation free, as the country celebrated the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, an icon of not just Indian independence but also cleanliness.

A toilet in Madhya Pradesh is being used for reasons beyond its intended purpose. In complete departure of hygienic norms the toilet in Shivpuri district's rural child care centre has been converted into a full-fledged kitchen.

Over 93 per cent households in rural India have access to toilets and of these households, 96.5 per cent uses them, a survey commissioned by the government has found.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday called upon people, especially women in rural areas, to ensure that the crores of toilets constructed in the past over four years are used so that open defecation is curbed completely.

Around nine crore toilets have been built across the country since October 2014 under the Swachh Bharat Mission (Gramin) and a total of 546 districts were declared Open Defecation Free (ODF), the Lok Sabha was informed today.

Together with Campaign Ambassador Amitabh Bachchan, the annual Banega Swachh India Cleanathon has worked relentlessly for five years to help build toilets in rural areas, conduct clean-up drives and spread awareness about sanitation, health and hygiene across India.

Despite being declared Open Defecation Free months ago, Gujarat still needs lakhs of toilets in rural households, according to an RTI reply.

The campaign promotes the twin pit toilet technology in rural India and also features actor Bhumi Pednekar along with Akshay Kumar

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis today declared rural areas of the state open defecation-free and claimed the state has constructed the highest number of toilets in the country.

With just a day to go for the first phase of polling in Gujarat, the BJP today released its election manifesto, with promises including a resolve to "double" the income of farmers, and constructing toilets in every household in the rural parts of the state.

Urban Kerala is gearing up to achieve the Open Defecation Free status with over 27,000 household toilet units and a series of public toilet complexes, after rural Kerala was declared ODF in November, 2016.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is on a two-day visit to his parliamentary constituency, Varanasi, today said that by 2022, "every poor, whether in urban or rural area, will get a home". Stressing that his government's prime agenda is development, he said, "Governance is not about politics or winning elections. The priority is the well-being of t...

By Swagata Yadavar/ IndiaSpend.org Although Swachh Bharat Abhiyan has sent India on a toilet-construction spree, 51.6 per cent of households across the country did not use an improved sanitation facility — a system that separates human excreta from human contact — between January 2015 and December 2016. Household toilet availability has improve...

Over 16.34 crore rural households in the country have access to toilets and highest of them are in Uttar Pradesh, Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat said in Lok Sabha today.

Only about 50.3 per cent of the households in the rural and about 75.0 per cent in the urban areas had exclusive access to toilets during July-December 2018, according to the findings of National Sample Survey (NSS).

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said rural India has declared itself open defecation free, as the country celebrated the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, an icon of not just Indian independence but also cleanliness.

A toilet in Madhya Pradesh is being used for reasons beyond its intended purpose. In complete departure of hygienic norms the toilet in Shivpuri district's rural child care centre has been converted into a full-fledged kitchen.

Over 93 per cent households in rural India have access to toilets and of these households, 96.5 per cent uses them, a survey commissioned by the government has found.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday called upon people, especially women in rural areas, to ensure that the crores of toilets constructed in the past over four years are used so that open defecation is curbed completely.

Around nine crore toilets have been built across the country since October 2014 under the Swachh Bharat Mission (Gramin) and a total of 546 districts were declared Open Defecation Free (ODF), the Lok Sabha was informed today.

Together with Campaign Ambassador Amitabh Bachchan, the annual Banega Swachh India Cleanathon has worked relentlessly for five years to help build toilets in rural areas, conduct clean-up drives and spread awareness about sanitation, health and hygiene across India.

Despite being declared Open Defecation Free months ago, Gujarat still needs lakhs of toilets in rural households, according to an RTI reply.

The campaign promotes the twin pit toilet technology in rural India and also features actor Bhumi Pednekar along with Akshay Kumar

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis today declared rural areas of the state open defecation-free and claimed the state has constructed the highest number of toilets in the country.

With just a day to go for the first phase of polling in Gujarat, the BJP today released its election manifesto, with promises including a resolve to "double" the income of farmers, and constructing toilets in every household in the rural parts of the state.

Urban Kerala is gearing up to achieve the Open Defecation Free status with over 27,000 household toilet units and a series of public toilet complexes, after rural Kerala was declared ODF in November, 2016.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is on a two-day visit to his parliamentary constituency, Varanasi, today said that by 2022, "every poor, whether in urban or rural area, will get a home". Stressing that his government's prime agenda is development, he said, "Governance is not about politics or winning elections. The priority is the well-being of t...

By Swagata Yadavar/ IndiaSpend.org Although Swachh Bharat Abhiyan has sent India on a toilet-construction spree, 51.6 per cent of households across the country did not use an improved sanitation facility — a system that separates human excreta from human contact — between January 2015 and December 2016. Household toilet availability has improve...