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Sanitation

Gender Equality

99,000 Schools Without a Girls' Toilet: The Gap Behind India's Dropout Numbers

India's 2026 school audit found close to 99,000 schools with no separate toilet for girls. That single missing facility explains more adolescent dropout than most education policy debates admit.

Health

India's Sanitation Revolution: Progress and Gaps

India built over 110 million toilets under the Swachh Bharat Mission, the largest sanitation programme in human history. But the gap between toilet construction and actual usage reveals a more complex story of progress, persistent challenges, and the long road to truly ending open defecation.