India, Sept. 30 -- Recently, Prime Minister Narendra Modi received the Global Goalkeeper Award in recognition of his efforts in providing safe sanitation in India. Yes, Swacch Bharat Mission, launched in 2014 to primarily bring about an improvement in the general quality of life in the rural areas by promoting cleanliness, hygiene and eliminating open defecation is showing appreciable results.
Notably 4265 cities, according to reports, are now open defecation free (ODF). Nearly 64.32 lakh individual household toilets and 5.45 lakh seats of community/public toilets have been constructed during the last 5 years. Further 377 cities have been certified ODF+ and another 167 cities ODF++. Sanitation coverage has increased to 98.2% as on 31 March...