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AP lags behind in villages [1]

Hyderabad, Dec. 16: Around 85 per cent of the rural population in the state still defecates in the open despite efforts made to end the practice through the total sanitation campaign. Though 58 per cent of the the rural areas have toilets, their use is only around 30 per cent.

Publication Date: 
17/12/2008
Deccan Chronicle (Hyderabad) [2]
Tags:
Sanitation [3], Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan (Total Sanitation Campaign) [4], Rural Sanitation [5], Andhra Pradesh [6]

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[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/deccan-chronicle-hyderabad
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/sanitation
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/total-sanitation-campaign
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/rural-sanitation
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/andhra-pradesh