A stinking mess

October 10, 2012 11:45

Census 2011 threw up a malodorous statistic: people in 49.8 per cent of households have no toilet facilities and defecate in the open. In contrast, 63.2 per cent of households have a telephone connection, of which 52.3 per cent have cell phones; as for televisions, almost half of the country's households possess one.

That's the editorial on the Hindu. Read

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