Indian Elections 2019: Do more Indians than before have access to toilets?
India's BJP government has undertaken a highly ambitious project to build tens of millions of toilets across the country.
An independent survey carried out in rural areas between November 2017 and March 2018 found that 77% of rural households had access to toilets and 93.4 % of the people who had access to a toilet used them regularly.says that 27 states and union territories out of 36 are now free from the practice of open defecation.
The government's main data-collecting body - the National Sample Survey Office - reported that of those households getting new toilets in 2016, 5% were not being used and 3% had no connection to a water supply. But according to the Annual Status of Education Report published in 2018, nearly 23% of government school toilets were not useable.BBC Marathi service did its own investigation in 2018 into the official assertion that the state of Maharasthra was free of open defecation.
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