The government could achieve just above half of its pledged target on construction of individual household lavatories under the total sanitation campaign in the past five years, according to the Comptroller and Auditor-General (CAG) of India. The campaign was launched with an objective of providing access to toilets to all by 2012. Rechristened as Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan in 2012, the deadline was pushed to 2022. The CAG report, tabled in Parliament on Tuesday, said against the objective of 426.32 lakh and 469.76 lakh individual household latrines for BPL and APL families respectively, project districts could construct only 222.32 lakh (and 207.55 lakh.
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