Feel free to go to SBM site and play with any states cumulative coverage graphs since 2014. However, having tracked Swachh Bharat and Saubhagya missions over the years, the data is nothing if not stunning. The press responses were rather elitist then, asking why the first PM with an absolute majority in a generation is talking about toilets in front of phoren dignitaries at I Day (shades of Indian censors trying to cut parts of people eating with hand in Mother India in the 1950s, lest phoren people be put off by the sight). I remember tracking that in the econ thread, and being a little surprised myself. A lot of people were underwhelmed when in his 2014 I-Day speech, he spoke not about foreign investment and growth, but about village toilet building. The lot of Hindus (generally speaking, all poor, but Hindus are the most numerically visible and most associated with the image) as poor, wretched, 'dirty' and backward - scrawny people with beseeching looks on their faces - is something Modi strove hard to fix from 2014.
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