Mahima Vashisht
Mahima Vashisht
Toilets for women, women for toilets
Posted on 05 Feb, 2018 11:16 AMRural India’s tryst with toilets began with its first sanitation programme--the CRSP (Community Rural Sanitation Programme) in 1981, when the country’s rural sanitation coverage was a mere one percent. By 2014, it was 39 percent, i.e., an average of about one percent increase in sanitation coverage per year.
![The graph shows the sanitation coverage in rural India.](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/sanitation_coverage_in_rural_india.png?itok=mD2hfMlV)