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The toilet test (Editorial)

With one in two people lacking access to a toilet, India urgently needs a Sanitation Act As a traveller, you often judge a country by its public toilets. India fails this toilet test miserably. For even as our country appears poised to become an economic giant at some future date, one of the many appalling statistics that brings us down to earth is our toilet story, or rather the lack of toilets story.