This 18-year-old Gurugram student built two community toilets in a village

She started by conducting three workshops on using the toilets, besides spreading awareness about the best hygiene practices, especially among women

• According to a report on “Drinking Water, Sanitation, Hygiene and Housing Conditions in India” by the Centre’s National Statistical Office, over one-fourth of the rural households do not have toilets

• Only half of the rural population in Uttar Pradesh and Odisha had access to toilets as of 2018

The findings came to light more than a month after Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared rural India open defecation-free (ODF) during an event in Gujarat to mark the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi in 2019 and after over five ye­ars he launched the Swachha Bharat Mission, primarily aiming at making India