India "missing" 3.75 cr toilets: sanitation activists

According to the activists, the women shared with them the “incidents of violence” that they face when they go for open defecation or use public toilets.


“These women demand sanitation services for their dignity, health and development,” a sanitation activist said.  A group of children also staged a play on their problems related to availability and accessibility of toilets. 

Campaigns were organised in Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Jharkhand, Gujrat, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, West Bengal, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamilnadu. 

India is the global capital in terms of people going for open defecation. Rural sanitation coverage is still around 30 per cent (Census 2011) and the budget allocation is about 0.04 per cent of our GDP.