Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy on Monday said the southern state was open defecation free in its rural areas. “Earlier statistics showed that only half or one-third of the rural households had individual toilets, but presently, all the 70.2 lakh rural households in the state have been provided with[Read More…]
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UP to become ‘open defecation free’ by Oct 2, 2019: CM Yogi Adityanath
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday said that the state would become open defecation free by October 2, 2019, with his government constructed over 1.36 crore toilets in the last 17 months. “Four years ago in 99,000 villages of the state, cleanliness was a distant dream. And since[Read More…]
West Bengal: Three districts to go ODF this month
Three districts in West Bengal, East and West Burdwan and Howrah, will be declared open defecation free (ODF) by the government this month. Chief minister, Mamata Banerjee, will declare these districts as ODF by the second or third week of October. The government wants to make the state ODF by[Read More…]
Delhi: 1,206 more community toilets constructed in 36 jhuggi-jhopris
Moving a step ahead towards government’s effort to make New Delhi open-defecation free, 1,206 community toilets were inaugurated in 36 jhuggi-jhopri clusters on Wednesday. Chief minister, Arvind Kejriwal, dedicated the toilets to the public from a dais, erected in an open field that is often used for open defecation at[Read More…]
Women involvement is key to making India open defecation free
In India, one in two people defecate in the open, making India a country with the dubious distinction of having the largest number of people defecate in the open in the world, at more than 564 million (UNICEF report). The rural-urban divide is most pronounced in this case with about[Read More…]