The "Clean India" campaign may have good results on paper, but the reality does not match the numbers.

Not so many decades ago, rural open defecation rates would have been high in essentially every country,” write Diane Coffey and Dean Spears. “India stands alone today not because it changed, but ...

Sikkim: The state became India’s first Open Defecation Free State in 2008, long before the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan was launched, after the state government and the local population collaborated to ...

An official report has contradicted Indian government claims that rural areas of the country are completely free from the practice of open defecation. The National Statistical Office (NSO ...

An official report has contradicted Indian government claims that rural areas of the country are completely free from the practice of open defecation. The National Statistical Office (NSO ...