Brief by Shorts91 Newsdesk / 04:49am on 29 Sep 2026,Tuesday Education
Nearly one in five children worldwide without school sanitation services are in India, which accounts for 50 million of the 244 million children lacking such services globally, according to the WHO-UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme report. India recorded a 14 per cent reduction in schools with no sanitation service between 2015 and 2025. Around 20 million Indian children lacked hygiene services at school, although insufficient recent data prevented the JMP from estimating India’s 2025 hygiene coverage. About 12 million Indian children lacked drinking-water services, representing roughly one in 20 globally. India was among 28 of 62 countries on track for universal basic drinking-water coverage by 2030. Globally, WASH progress remains off track. (PC: X)
