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Infamous for sooty air, polluted water, and customarily troublesome sanitation, India has made many strides within the past few years but still has much to try and do so as to enhance sanitation. because of a scarcity of access to toilets, many problems like clean drinkable, disease spreading, and contamination can arise. According to Unicef, in 2015 568 million people were forced to defecate in fields or open areas because of a lack of sufficient toilets, quite 90% of the people who do so in South Asia and 1/2 of the people within the world did so. In 2019, the number of individuals decreased to 450 million, but still is much from over. The Swachh Bharat or Clean India mission was founded by India’s Prime Minister in 2014 to do to repair this widespread issue. Defecati...

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India Crosses 50,000 Open Defecation-Free (ODF) Plus Villages

Pooja YadavMarch 29, 20220

The milestone of getting 50,000 open defecation-free (ODF) plus villages has been crossed by the country. The top-performing states under this programme are Telangana which has 13,960 ODF plus villages, followed by Madras and Madhya Pradesh. In 2020, the Swachh Bharat Mission Grameen Phase-II was launched with the aim of ensuring that each one of the villages across the country is declared as ODF Plus by the tip of the year 2024. According to the Jal Shakti ministry, achieving the ODF plus mission has several aspects that include the GOBARdhan Scheme, biodegradable waste management, plastic waste management, greywater management, and Faecal sludge management. Into three categories, the ODF Plus villages are divided. These categories are Rising, Aspiring, and Model, which display...