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India's Urban Areas of 35 states / UTs ODF - 4,167 cities certified ODF through Third Party Verification

India's Urban Areas of 35 states  UTs ODF - 4,167 cities certified ODF through Third Party Verification
India's Urban Areas of 35 states / UTs ODF - 4,167 cities certified ODF through Third Party Verification

India's Urban Areas of 35 states / UTs ODF - 4,167 cities certified ODF through Third Party Verification

Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban (SBM-U) has achieved its target of creating Urban India ODF. Urban areas of 35 states / UTs have become "Open defecation free" (ODF).

In all, 4,320 cities (out of 4,372) have declared themselves "Open defecation free" (ODF), of which 4,167 cities have been certified through third party verification.

This has been achieved by the construction of nearly 65.81 lakh Individual Household Toilets against Mission target of 59 lakhs and 5.89 lakh seats of community / public toilets against Mission target of 5.08 lakh seats under the Mission.


Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) has partnered with Google to map all public toilets on Google maps, thereby improving ease of access of sanitation facilities to citizens. Till date, 2,300 cities have uploaded more than 57, 000 PTs mapped on Google maps, covering more than 50% of India’s urban population.[PIB]

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