As many as 56.6 lakh individual household toilets have been constructed till February this year and another 6.33 lakh toilets were under construction under the Swachchh Bharat Mission-Urban (SBM-U).
In an RTI reply, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (HUA) said that SBM-U aims at making urban India free from open defecation and achieving 100 per cent scientific management of municipal solid waste in all the 4,041 statutory towns of the country.
The Ministry said in Uttar Pradesh, as many as 7.53 lakh individual household toilets have been constructed while in Maharashtra, 682,812 units have been built under the Mission till February this year.
According to the reply, only 480 such units have been constructed in Delhi and 336 in Andman and Nicobar Islands.
The ministry said 3,57,767 individual household toilets have been constructed in Rajasthan and added that 293,614 units have been constructed in Bihar.