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&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;All villages and almost 99% of towns have been declared open-defecation-free. The third round (2019-2020) of the National Annual Rural Sanitation Survey reported that 94.4% of households in India have access to a toilet and that nearly 90% of them always use the toilets.&lt;/p&gt;

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<p style="text-align:justify"><em>* India has reduced open defecation and made some progress to improve sanitation services. But its sanitation system is not yet sustainable and not yet safe.</em></p>

<p style="text-align:justify"><em>* In Tapoban Basti in Bhubaneswar, some men avoid using the toilet every day to not have to incur the cost of cleaning out the septic tank.</em></p>

<p style="text-align:justify"><em>* In a basti on the outskirts of Jaipur, a community toilet slowly ran out of water and the pay-per-use facility became filthy, forcing people in the neighbourhood to defecate in a nearby field.</em></p>

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Why Eradicating Open Defecation Is Not the Same as Setting up New Toilets -Sujeet Kumar

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