Just 4.6 lakh toilets made out of 25 lakh aimed for 2014-15 under Swachh Bharat Abhiyan
With the first year of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan coming to a close tomorrow, statistics reveal its crawling progress.
The campaign which kicked off with much fanfare and hubbub aims to make India clean with better sanitation and garbage disposal facilities by 2019.
However the progress made so far seems to tell against the ambitious project. The government has only been able to build 4.6 lakh household toilets out of the target set for 2014-15 of 25 lakh.
Infographics by Shoumik Biswas/Catch News
Similarly only 25,000 public toilets have been built out of the proposed 1 lakh for this year.
Infographics by Shoumik Biswas/Catch News
A government official was quoted in a national daily explaining the reasons for the campaign's poor performance.
"There were initial delays in disbursal of funds. Considering this is the first year, we didn't expect much implementation. Our focus was bringing about behavioural changes in people through campaigns and pressuring local bodies to build infrastructure," he said.
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