In Uttar Pradesh, which has a population of over 200 million, a staggering 77 per cent of rural households did not have a latrine. In Bihar, 81.4 per cent of rural households did not have bathrooms in their premises. The national average for India’s rural areas shows that over 67 per cent did not have access to toilets, while in urban India, the figure is 12.6 per cent. A significantly larger proportion of the population has mobile phones in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.
