• Under the Swachh Bharat Mission Gramin (SBM-G), rural Uttarakhand and rural Haryana have declared themselves as the 4th and 5th Open Defecation Free (ODF) States of India.
• The two states joined the league of Sikkim, Himachal Pradesh and Kerala, which were the first three states to be declared ODF.
• Nationally, the sanitation coverage has increased from 42% to over 64% in just two and a half years since the launch of SBM.

Source:PIB