Planning Commission's new toilets: lessons for us

Why it's easier for India to get to Mars than to tackle its toilet challenge

For an emerging country like India, it is relatively easier to take part in exploratory missions to Mars than to tackle its sanitation challenge

Building toilets in rural schools is not enough, they have to be usable too

Around 23 per cent of rural schools have unusable toilets and 11.5 per cent have no separate toilets for girls, finds the 13th ASER report