(Representational) School children get together to paint messages of Swachh Bharat and the symbolic spectacles of Mahatma Gandhi on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti in Vadodara. In the first year of the scheme, only 4.6 lakh toilets were constructed. The ministry has now revised its five-year target for individual household toilets in cities and brought it down to 66.42 lakh. By the end of this year, Kerala, Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh will declare all its cities as ODF,” said the official. Together, these 37 districts account for about only a lakh villages of the total 6.08 lakh villages that come under the scheme.

Source: Indian Express September 27, 2016 19:30 UTC