India can achieve total sanitation by 2016

KOLKATA: West Bengal is well on its way to be the first State in the country to achieve open defecation free status by 2010 followed by Andhra Pradesh that is likely to achieve the target by 2013. Chhattisgarh is at the bottom of the list with the target year being 2022. Almost 80 per cent of the households in rural areas in West Bengal have been provided with toilets under the Total Sanitation Campaign of the Union Rural Development Ministry being implemented by the three-tier Panchayat, non-government organizations and women self help groups. (…)

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