As per the latest report of the Central government, Telangana has bagged the top position among all other States of the country in having the highest number of ODF plus villages under the Swachh Bharat Mission (Grameen) Phase-II programme.
Jammu and Kashmir, Bihar, West Bengal, Nagaland, Mizoram, Tripura and Goa have been placed at the bottom of the list with zero progress. Of the 14,200 villages in the state, 13,737 villages stood as ODF plus, Panchayati Raj officials said. Telangana is followed by Tamil Nadu (35.39 percent), Kerala (19.78 percent), Uttarakhand (9.01 percent), Haryana (5.75 percent ), Karnataka (5.59 percent) and Andhra Pradesh (4.63 percent). Of the total 5,82,903 villages in the country have been declared ODF as on December 31, 2021, only 26,138 villages are under ODF Plus, officials said. Of these, 13,737 (52 per cent) are Telangana villages.