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Northeastern States lag behind in toilets for schoolgirls
Why is it in the news?
- As per the ASER Report 2018, An average of 34.96% schools in the eight northeastern states had usable toilets for girls in 2018 compared to 36.66% in 2016.
- Sikkim performed better than the national average of 66.4%, with 75.7% schools– a marginal increase from 75% in 2016– having usable toilets for girls.
- But there is less-than-satisfactory performance by seven other states in the region.
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- Nagaland is the next best State after Sikkim, with 47%, an increase from 40.9% in 2016, followed by Mizoram with the highest percentile increase from 25.3% to 34.9% in these two years.
- The other five states performed poorly, the steepest drop for Assam being 38.3% from 54.2% in 2016.
- Manipur had 9.1% schools having fewer usable toilets for girls, followed by Meghalaya (8.6%), Arunachal Pradesh (7.6%) and Tripura (7.3%).
- Nationally, substantial improvements are visible over this eight-year period in the availability of many school facilities mandated by RTE.
- The fraction of schools with usable girls' toilets doubled, reaching 66.4% in 2018.
Source
The Hindu.