Delhi has completed construction of 5,776 community and public toilet seats since the launch of the mission in October last year, followed Chhattisgarh (3,570), Maharashtra (2,520), Chandigarh (2,424) and Karnataka (1,680).
These five states and Union Territories accounted for 86 per cent of the total number of public toilets constructed so far.
The government aims to build over 5 lakh community and public toilet seats under the mission and the Urban Development Ministry has sanctioned 82,438 so far.
Applications have been received from the states and Union Territories for construction of 30,41,097 individual household toilets as against the target of one crore such lavatories by 2019. And the Urban Development Ministry has sanctioned 13,64,814 toilets.
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The Urban Development Ministry has been regularly monitoring the programme having held three video-conferences with states and Union Territories last month.