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Swachh Bharat Abhiyan has increased access to toilets and reduced open defecation in India but not to the extent that the government claims, shows a study. If these numbers sound too good to be true, they are most likely to be quite off the mark. However, the RICE survey found the proportion of rural households with toilets lagging in all the three states. The difference is particularly stark in the case of Bihar, the survey of 1, households in Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, and Rajasthan shows. These four states accounted for nearly half of the households without toilets and defecating in the open, as of , according to data from the large-scale National Family Health Survey NFHS. The researchers find that access to toilets has risen sharply over the past four years.

All rights reserved. The man who turned a taboo subject into an international day is Singaporean businessman Jack Sim, who founded the World Toilet Organization in and later the World Toilet College, World Toilet Summit, and bathroom associations around the globe. In , the United Nations adopted it to recognize the 2. Two years later the UN pledged toilet access for everyone by in the Sustainable Development Goals. With this global attention, toilet innovation has flourished. Government and NGO-run initiatives that produce low-cost toilets or toilet add-ons to improve safety and sanitation are dispatched to remote villages and disaster zones.

Skip to content. After all, millions of Indians still lack access to toilets and basic sanitary facilities. The museum is small, with just one long room inside a low-slung concrete building. But it is filled with exhibits that have, not surprisingly a touch of bathroom humor.

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