Poor drinking water facilities, debilitating drainage system and crippling sanitation are the hallmarks of Rajasthan, says the latest survey.

India is the world's largest open air lavatory with over 620 million people practising open defecation in the country.

Seeking to address this persisting problem, the UPA government has widened the scope of its flagship Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) to include works relating to rural sanitation in collaboration with the Nirmal Bharat Abhiyaan (NBA).

The World Bank has approved a $500 million credit for the Rural Water Supply and Sanitation (RWSS) project in four low income states -- UP, Bihar, Jharkhand and Assam.

Tapping the Markets: Opportunities for Domestic Investments in Water and Sanitation for the Poor presents the results of a detailed examination of market opportunities for the domestic private sector in the provision of piped water and on-site sanitation services in rural and semi-urban areas and of the commercial, policy, and investment climate

The main objective of the CSR Guideline with regard to Sanitation would be as: To promote better human health and improve quality of life among people living in rural areas through improved sanitation measures, including adoption and creation of Adarsh Gram (model village) for all types of Water and Sanitation activities which may include indivi

This World Bank paper uses a sample of children under 48 months in rural areas of India from the Third Round of District Level Household Survey 2007–08 and finds evidence of positive and significant direct benefits and concave positive external effects for both improved sanitation and fixed-point defecation.

Seven-year-old Anjali, a frail girl walking with a bucket of sewage and waste water for discharging it in an open field, is a pitiful sight.

This has become the fate of several others at Bhagpati village and adjoining areas, where the residents have been forced to become a scavenger, flushing out dirty water four times a day.

At a time when the government talks about inclusive growth, more than 66 years after Independence almost 60 percent of people staying in rural India do not have access to latrine facilities, offici

Despite the slowing economy and high inflation, the number of urban slums have fallen by nearly a third while the access to electricity, water and sanitation has improved across households in the f

The situation is, however, far better in urban India as less than 9% of the population lacks the facility

As many as 60 per cent of rural households do not have access to a toilet facility even after 66 years of independence, show official data.
The situation is better in urban India, with less than nine per cent lacking the facility.

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