India's toilet-building plan saves thousands of babies, report says

Modi's ambitious, decade-old 'Clean India' mission has built 117m loos

20241002 toilet in the village of Gadoj

A woman shows a toilet in the village of Gadoj in the northwestern Indian state of Rajasthan. (Photo by Kosaku Mimura)

KIRAN SHARMA, Nikkei staff writer

NEW DELHI -- A government-backed sanitation project has resulted in the building of more than 117 million toilets in India, which a science journal has attributed to possibly having saved the lives of up to 70,000 babies.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi made it his government's mission to create an "open defecation-free" (ODF) India under the "Clean India" campaign launched on Oct. 2, 2014.

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