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1 year left for Swachh Bharat deadline; 54% rural families defecate in open

More than 49 million households in India have toilets-up from 38.7% in 2014 to 69.04% in 2017

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Swagata Yadavar | IndiaSpend New Delhi
About four (38.9%) of ten Indian households defecated in the open, according to the latest national health data gathered in 2015-16, down from 55.3% a decade before that, a decline of 16.4 percentage points.
While 10.5% of urban households defecated in the open in 2015-16, compared to 16.8% a decade before that, more than half (54.1%) of India’s rural households used no toilet or defecated in the open, compared to 74% of rural households who did so in 2005-06, according to the National Family Health Surveys in 2005-06 and 2015-16.
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