The census 2011 based information on basic amenities offers an opportunity to assess India’s progress towards access to toilet facility, the first step to end the open defecation, with a decade long Total Sanitation Campaign underway. Evaluating the data of census 2001 and 2011, it turns out that progress in this sphere is slow and non-inclusive. It entirely excludes poorest states with high incidence of toilet deprivation.
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