Around 59.5 per cent of the population of Berhampur is compelled to opt for open air defecation, which has become a major health hazard.

Members of ‘Children’s Federation’, an organisation of children living in slums of the city, demanded that the Berhampur Municipal Corporation (BMC) and administration should initiate measures so that Berhampur could become the first open air defecation free city of Odisha.