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

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