World Toilet Day is observed every November 19, created by the World Toilet Organization in 2001 and formally designated by the UN General Assembly in 2013. In…
The World Toilet Organization establishes World Toilet Day on November 19, using a deliberately blunt name to force public conversation about a subject most people avoid…
On July 24, 2013, the UN General Assembly adopted Resolution A/RES/67/291, proposed by Singapore, designating November 19 as World Toilet Day - adopted by consensus with…
India launches Swachh Bharat Mission on October 2, 2014, Gandhi's birth anniversary, targeting elimination of rural open defecation by October 2, 2019, from a baseline c…
The first National Annual Rural Sanitation Survey finds 77% toilet access, 93.4% usage among households with access, and reconfirms ODF status for 95.6% of previously ve…
The second NARSS finds 93.1% toilet access and 96.5% usage among households with access - both sharply higher - while ODF village reconfirmation falls to 90.7%, showing…
On October 2, 2019 - Gandhi's 150th birth anniversary and the mission's original deadline - villages, districts, states and UTs declare ODF, with over 10 crore rural toi…
SBM-Grameen Phase II shifts the objective from 'has open defecation ended' to 'is that status sustained, and is solid/liquid waste being managed' - toilet construction b…
By December 27, 2024, government reporting credits a 460% rise in ODF Plus villages since 2022 - over 5.61 lakh, with 69%+ reaching Model status. The World Toilet Day ca…
The live SBM-G dashboard shows 569,838 of 586,944 villages declared ODF Plus, and 527,548 declared ODF Plus Model - but only about 90,789 (17.2%) of those Model villages…
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