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PM Modi says rural India has declared itself open defecation free
New Delhi: Rural India has declared itself open defecation free, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Wednesday as he marked the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi at Sabarmati riverfront in Gujarat. “Today, rural India, its people, have declared themselves open defecation free,” Modi said. The National Democratic Alliance government launched the Swachh Bharat Mission in 2014 to make India open defecation free by October 2019 and achieve universal sanitation coverage. A sanitation survey conducted under World Bank supervision found that 90.4% of villages are open defecation free now and 93.1% of rural households have access to toilets.












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