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Telangana's development narrative is challenged by a stark reality: thousands lack basic amenities like toilets, tap water, and electricity. A recent survey reveals deep inequalities, particularly affecting Scheduled Tribes and Castes, highlighting persistent social and economic backwardness despite claims of progress. This disparity impacts health, dignity, and overall quality of life for many.

The Patna Municipal Corporation kicks off its vital Swachh Survekshan 2025-26 field assessments from April 25 until May 31. Dedicated teams will gauge cleanliness, waste management systems, and gather citizen feedback, adding up to a formidable 12,500 marks.

Sarpanchs are taking it as a mission to convert their villages into open defecation-free (odf) villages in Jaipur rural area. A total of 154 gram panchayats have declared themselves odf. But, verification by the government to declare them odf will be done soon.

The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHU) have upgraded Surat’s Open Deification Free (odf) City status from odf+ and awarded it odf++ on January 24. This would make Surat a seven star city.

The district administration has initiated several efforts to transform 207 villages under different panchayats in 16 blocks of the district into open defecation free (odf) plus. The cost of making the villages odf plus will be around Rs 13.70 crores.

The Open Defecation Free (odf) scheme has gone beyond making villages free of open defecation and now its extensions even motivate villagers to manage their plastic waste.

In just over nine months, more than 80,000 villages were not only declared odf but with the addition of either solid or liquid waste management facilities or both, they were given the additional tag of odf Plus.

Chief minister Pramod Sawant said on Tuesday that had Goa not been declared open defecation free (odf), then it would have faced embarrassment in the country.

As part of the Swachh Bharat Urban programme, all cities in the state, including Aurangabad, are required to ensure proper functioning of their public and community toilets to qualify as open defecation free (odf) city.

Reconfirming Surat city’s status as Open Defecation free (odf) city, Quality Control of India (QCI) awarded Surat odf+ rating on Wednesday.

The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation after getting the Open Defecation Free Plus status has within a forth night got the odf ++ station. The odf++ status is awarded after inspecting the city facility of having smart toilets, no open drainages and even the city should have adequate Sewerage Treatment plants.

Over 90% of villages in Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, and Bihar have achieved Open Defecation Free (odf) Plus status, according to the Jal Shakti Ministry. Madhya Pradesh leads with 99% coverage. Union Minister CR Patil praised the progress, emphasizing sanitation as a behavioral mission crucial for rural health and dignity.

In a significant move, the Centre has kept Chandigarh in the odf++ category for the current year and is going to announce the odf++ ranking for Chandigarh on October 2.

one lakh villages across the country will be declared open defecation free (odf) on Bapu's Jayanti, Madhya Pradesh will contribute 6,600 villages in the national figure after adding 1,100 villages to it.

The district tops the Open Defecation Free (odf) list with as many as 613 villages qualifying in the list of the total 1,029 villages.Four talukas from the district have been declared 100% odf, with every house in these villages having proper defecation amenities.

Odisha is among the top five performing states where maximum number of villages have been declared open defecation free (odf)-Plus. Other top performing states are Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh. Odisha has 10,861 odf Plus villages till Friday.

More than three years after Goa was declared an open defecation-free (odf) state, panchayat minister Mauvin Godinho on Saturday set a new deadline."Our efforts are on to declare Goa as an odf state by 2024," he said.

The Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP), at its council meeting on Monday, declared itself open defacation free (odf)

The city mayor Uday Madkaikar on Thursday alleged that the Corporation of the City of Panaji was “pressurised” into signing certificates stating that its wards are open defecation free (odf), thus bringing the state’s hurried odf declaration under question.

During a gathering at the town hall, District Collector Jasmeet Singh Sandhu on Tuesday declared the newly established Phalodi district "odf Plus". This distinguished recognition represents an advancement from the odf (open defecation-free) status and is achieved under the Swachh Bharat Mission.

Villages where people still defecate in open face nearly 13 times higher risk of faecal contamination of ground water as compared to open defecation free (odf) villages, says a study by United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). The assessment has also found that risk of ground water contamination in Bihar is maximum at nearly 36%.