Improving sanitation in India’s villages, where three out of five people defecate in the open, has proved to be one of the country’s greatest development challenges. A $1.5 billion World Bank loan will support the Clean India Mission, the country’s largest-ever drive to improve sanitation. It aims to end open defecation by Oct. 2, 2019, Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birthday.
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