Open-defecation

India will be made open-defecation free (ODF) on October 2, 2019, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Friday.

Every morning around dawn, dozens of people gather by the dusty banks of a stream snaking through Shikrawa village, two hours south of New Delhi, to do the same thing: defecate in the open.

Jaipur: More than 4,900 gram panchayats have become open-defecation free and 58.26 lakh toilets have been constructed in the last over three years in Rajasthan. During a review meeting of panchayati raj department, officers informed Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje that 58.26 lakh toilets have been constructed in the state in the last three-and-a-hal...

Only 17 of the 686 districts in the country have become open-defecation free so far, even as the government said rural sanitation programme was picking up under the Swachh Bharat Mission.

India will be made open-defecation free (ODF) on October 2, 2019, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Friday.

Every morning around dawn, dozens of people gather by the dusty banks of a stream snaking through Shikrawa village, two hours south of New Delhi, to do the same thing: defecate in the open.

Jaipur: More than 4,900 gram panchayats have become open-defecation free and 58.26 lakh toilets have been constructed in the last over three years in Rajasthan. During a review meeting of panchayati raj department, officers informed Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje that 58.26 lakh toilets have been constructed in the state in the last three-and-a-hal...

Only 17 of the 686 districts in the country have become open-defecation free so far, even as the government said rural sanitation programme was picking up under the Swachh Bharat Mission.