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India’s toilet stats raise a stink
Administrative data on toilets may suffer from over-reporting bias, suggest experts and independent data sources
5 min read18 Dec 2019Opinion | The persistence of open defecation
According to recently released data from a mega survey conducted by National Statistical Office, more than one-fourth of rural households lacked access to toilets
1 min read25 Nov 2019PM Modi says rural India has declared itself open defecation free
In 60 months, over 60 crore people got access to toilets—after hearing this, the world is astonished, says Modi in SabarmatiA sanitation survey conducted under World Bank supervision found that 90.4% of villages are open defecation free now and 93.1% of rural households have access to toilets
2 min read2 Oct 2019PM Modi declares India open defecation-free country
World impressed by our success on open defecation-free front, giving awards to us, said Modi on occasion of Mahatma's 150th birth anniversaryRural India, its villages have declared themselves open defecation free, the PM said in Gujarat's Sabarmati
1 min read2 Oct 2019Opinion | Stop defecation vigilantes
Cleanliness should be voluntary. For any mission to succeed, persuasion works better than coercion. We should not criminalize or stigmatize open defecation. Just discourage it
1 min read25 Sep 2019Under NDA, more toilets, less open defecation
Amid over-reporting, NDA’s toilet building spree via Swachh Bharat Mission has improved sanitation but its focus needs to shift to behavioural change
4 min read18 Mar 2019Swachh Bharat Abhiyan: Why India’s toilet data is too good to be true
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.
3 min read9 Jan 2019Opinion | When it does hit the fan, there’s a lot of it
Scientists use the mathematical model of defecation and a deflated balloon to decode the mystery behind cube-shaped faeces produced by wombats
7 min read7 Dec 2018Why Swachh Bharat Abhiyan matters for India’s children
Despite rapid progress on income and development parameters in the past decade, heights of children grew slowly, and a big contributor is sanitation
3 min read6 Dec 2018Popular Topics
Budget
The Union Budget contains details about the estimated receipts and the expenditure of the government for a particular fiscal year. The Budget is allotted for the upcoming fiscal year, which runs from 1st April to 31st March of the next year. Here is a quick guide on how the Union Budget is prepared