Nikhil Srivastav

University of Texas, Austin
Nikhil Srivastav

Nikhil Srivastav is a graduate student studying Public Affairs at the University of Texas, Austin. He has spent close to a decade doing fieldwork around early-life and maternal health, open defecation, and inequality.

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Why we still need to measure open defecation in rural India

On October 2, the government will host the UN Secretary General and other international delegates at the Mahatma Gandhi International Sanitation Convention, to celebrate India’s progress on ending open defecation. In this post, Srivastav and Hathi contend that while the recently released National Annual Rural Sanitation Survey data seem to show that open defecation is being eliminated from rural India, this conclusion is unfortunately premature.

01 October 2018
Human Development
Human Development
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