Rural India's sanitation status

INA recent survey, the results of which were recently released by the Union Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation, only 62.45 per cent rural households across India were found to have access to toilets. The report also said that 91.29 per cent of people who have access to toilets, use them. The Quality Council of India conducted the survey for the ministry. It surveyed 140,000 rural households between May and June this year. Uttar Pradesh and Bihar were found to have the worst rural sanitation facilities. Only 30 per cent of the rural households in Bihar had access to toilets, while Uttar Pradesh was slightly better at 37 per cent. Jharkhand scored the same as Uttar Pradesh. The original survey report will be published later by the ministry. Only a few sections have been published till now on social media by the ministry and the Quality Control of India.