Latest Rural Sanitation News & Updates

Gandhinagar/Dang, June 20 (IANS) Gujarat’s Dang district, one of India’s few districts with an overwhelmingly tribal population, has emerged as a national model for rural sanitation after achieving near-universal adoption of twin-pit toilets, a key component of faecal sludge management under the Swachh Bharat Mission (Gramin). According to officials, 51,613 of the district’s 58,966 households have adopted twin-pit toilets, accounting for nearly 95 per cent of all household toilets in the d…