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India's Toilet Program Seen as Having Mixed Results

Anjana Pasricha

   NEW DELHI - A total of 110 million toilets constructed for 600 million
   people in 60 months.

   Citing these figures, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced October 2
   that the open defecation in rural India has ended.

   However, the results of the world's biggest toilet-building program
   rolled out by his government five years ago are more mixed.

   While huge progress has been made in providing toilets across hundreds
   of thousands of villages, experts say open defecation has not been
   eliminated in a country where venturing into the fields is accepted as
   normal and where not everyone has access to a toilet yet.

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