ODF status is awarded to a state or district when it is certified as having no open defecation. This means that all households in the area have access to toilets and are using them.
The 5,000-plus residents of Jarandi in Maharashtra's Aurangabad district have toilets in their homes with enough water supply, but some still choose to relieve themselves in the open, especially on the entry road to the village.
Talking to PTI, Indore Municipal Corporation (IMC) health officer, Vivek Gangrade, said that a civic team had reached Pologround Industrial Area on Thursday morning to inspect cleanliness, when it found the man defecating in the open there.
Rural India has declared itself Open Defecation free, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Wednesday. Speaking at the Sabarmati Riverfront in Ahmedabad on Mahatma Gandhi's 150th birth anniversary, Modi also said the world appreciated India for providing toilets to over 60 crore people.
Tamil Nadu has achieved 100 per cent Open Defecation Free (ODF) status as per data uploaded on the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) website. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on October 2, 2014, had announced the SBM for five years.
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In all, since 1990, 2.1 billion people globally have gained access to improved sanitation facilities. "A great result. One that improves health and nutrition outcomes for children, empowers women, boosts economic prosperity and growth for entire nations," Fore said.
In his budget speech, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, while praising the mission, had specially mentioned about the Ganga gram scheme and declared that all 4,465 villages on the banks of the river had been declared open defecation free.
The government today informed the Lok Sabha that till date 11 states and union territories (UTs) have been declared open defecation free (ODF) under Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM), the Centre's flagship programme.
Arunachal has 21 districts and the state attained the feat much before the national deadline of October 2, 2019.
In a letter to CM Nitish Kumar, Bihar Secondary School Teachers Association's general secretary Shatrughan Prasad Singh said it is ‘disrespectful and exploitative’.
President Ram Nath Kovind today paid rich tributes to Mahatma Gandhi at his birthplace Kirti Mandir in Gujarat's Porbandar, and stressed that cleanliness was a "multi-stakeholder" national movement
Swachh Bharat Abhiyan was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on October 2, 2014. The objectives of Swachh Bharat are to reduce or eliminate open defecation through the construction of individual, cluster and community toilets.
The panchayat of Rambhakhedi village also served notices to 43 other families there to stop defecating in the open.
A study from the World Bank shows that the total economic impacts of inadequate sanitation in India was amounting to $53.8 billion per year, equivalent of 6.4 % of India's Gross Development Production in the same period.
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Brothers in Uttar Pradesh's Amethi district offered toilets as gift to their sisters on Raksha Bandha this year.
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Let’s talk about the ‘Open Defecation Crisis’ in India and what the numbers have to say about it.
The IAS officer, the District Magistrate of Aurangabad in Bihar, was addressing a 'swacchchta sabha' urging villagers to build toilets in their homes. He also pointed to the threat women face due to open defecation
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