According to the UN, around 595 million people, or nearly half of India's population, defecates（排便） in the open.
In his first Independence Day address on August 15, 2014, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi made the building of toilets in rural India, one of his government's major priorities.
A year later the Indian government claims that their "Clean India" campaign has achieved the target of ensuring separate toilets for boys and girls in all schools across the country. They also claimed to have constructed around 800,000 toilets in rural India.
But according to some reports in local media, while the toilets may be getting built, many villagers have refused to change thir habits, and toilets are lying empty.
In India it was suggested that Indians don't defecate near human habitation. It was also suggested that one should go at a distance, dig a small pit, put some grass and leaves in it and then defecate. This practice of defecation in the open is still prevalent in India, especially in the rural areas, in urban slums and at places of religious gatherings.
In earlier days, the villages had trees, bushes where one could take cover while defecating. Therefore, it has cultural legacy; besides while many people do not have adequate money to build the toilets, in some cases no place is available to build the toilets.
As the target set out by the prime minister to build toilet in all the houses by 2019, I hope by that year every house will have a toilet.
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