Sikkim achieves 100 per cent sanitation

February 09, 2014 11:45

Sikkim has become the only state in the country to achieve more than 100 per cent sanitation in rural and urban households, schools, sanitary complexes and Aanganwadi centres.

All 6,10,577 inhabitants in Sikkim have latrines with high sanitation and hygiene standards.

The Himalayan state has constructed 98,043 individual household latrines against the target of 87,014 till January, thus achieving 112.67 per cent target under the Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan scheme implemented by Union Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation, an official release said.

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