United Nations chief calls for adequate sanitation on World Toilet Day

According to government data, more than 2 crore toilets have been built for rural households between December 2012 and February 2015, but the number of toilets being built for each year has been steadily decreasing for a few reason.

The Chieftainess has introduced a fine for families if their children drop out from school, and with the toilets and washing facilities in place, girls are now attending class. With her watchful eye and the help of better facilities, girls stay at school, eager to learn.

I was reminded of this experience recently when thinking about the upcoming global advocacy day-World Toilet Day. "Education to change people's attitudes towards sanitation is crucial if we are to realise the full health and economic benefits of sanitation". Toilets and good sanitation alleviate suffering and save lives - millions of them. The latter has 80pct of its population following a healthy sanitation habit.

An Indian girl holds a can filled with water and walks past railway tracks to defecate in the open in Mumbai. In particular, defecating outside can be embarrassing, uncomfortable and unsafe. Research reveals open defecation in the country is in wide use especially in unofficial, un-serviced slums.

The report features Nigeria significantly as one of the most failing on access to sanitation.

The children in form 5CO at Blundell's Prep School, Tiverton, took part in the Toilet Twinning Scheme organised by the charity Tearfund and came up with their own ideas on how to fundraise for toilets.

Nepal, Togo and Benin is much smaller to India area wise but stands far beyond in this excretory issue.

The government has set Mahatma Gandhi's 150th birthday in 2019 as its target for achieving "total sanitation", including access to toilets for 1.2 billion people.

It's no secret that India's many health crises are triggered or augmented by this severe lack of sanitation. There are in excess of 60million people of us living here in the United Kingdom and it's not hard to picture the chaos, disease, stench and illness that would happen if one in three of us had no access to sanitation.

Abbottabad and Swat districts in KP are stated to be as per standards of the public experts where open defecation is quite low. Many more have their physical and cognitive development stunted through repeated bouts of diarrhea; half of malnutrition is attributed to dirty water, poor sanitation and lack of hygiene. What's more, women and girls are at a greater risk of violence and sexual assault when they are forced to relieve themselves in the open. This SDG focuses on providing sanitation for everyone everywhere by 2030. It noted that diarrhoea, malaria and pneumonia were the most common killers of young children around the world, with 58% of those deaths having the potential to be prevented by clean water and sanititation.