World Toilet Day: Awareness, accessibility and affordability are key to success of Swachh Bharat campaign

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World Toilet Day: Awareness, accessibility and affordability are key to success of Swachh Bharat campaign.

What is World Toilet Day?
World Toilet Day is about inspiring action to tackle the global sanitation crisis. Today, 4.5 billion people live without a household toilet that safely disposes of their waste.
The Sustainable Development Goals, launched in 2015, include a target to ensure everyone has access to a safely-managed household toilet by 2030. This makes sanitation central to eradicating extreme poverty.
In 2013, the United Nations General Assembly officially designated November 19 as World Toilet Day. World Toilet Day is coordinated by UN-Water in collaboration with governments and partners.

When Prime Minister Narendra Modi kicked off the Swachh Bharat Mission in 2014, it marked the beginning of the world’s largest ever sanitation drive. Three years down the line, a survey conducted by the Quality Council of India (QCI) found that access to toilets for rural households has increased manifold to over 62 percent, and that over 90 percent of those who have access to a toilet use it on a regular basis.
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