Toilet in all households was another vision of Narendra Modi (NaMo). Has generally been fully achieved. The absence of toilets for women means going out only when dark – hence open to rape or falling a prey to snakes, wild animals etc. it is also a reason for the lack of education of girls in rural areas.
https://www.unicef.org/india/what-we-do/ending-open-defecation
As per the UNICEF report, it has impacted 50 crore persons. And our population is assessed at 130 crores. Let us take these figures with a pinch of salt since the data would be some govt. source. Yet, very very impressive.
The question really is - why have these basic issues not been addressed in all these decades since Independence, why was this started only now?
However issues remain in using the toilets - in rural areas there is still some resistance. Also we hear of the toilets being used as storage places. So even here, it is still not the end of the road. But heading in the right direction.
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From AK: I have experienced this myself.
While posted in Patna, I
was go to some remote place in Bihar to conduct elections. The space provided for the election booth was a primary school. This school building though newly constructed did not have a single toilet and we had to go to defecate in the open field around the school premises.
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