To Know How Many People Have Access To Toilets, Surveyors Must Ask The Right Questions Sanitation data vary due to the type of questions asked in surveys. Accurate data on sanitation behaviour and toilet use can be captured if surveys ask questions on sanitation practices of all individuals in a household instead of one member, say experts. By Print Bengaluru: More than a year after the government declared that all rural households have access to toilets and are open defecation-free under the On October 2, 2019, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that 699 districts and 599,963 villages had " declared themselves as free from open defecation" under the SBM. The flagship rural sanitation programme launched in October 2014 has increased sanitation coverage from 39% to 100% in five years, the Centre