'Need to scale up efforts to meet Clean India target'
Union Minister Harsh Vardhan has called for the need to scale up efforts to achieve the Swachh Bharat target by October 2, 2019. Expressing satisfaction with the progress made so far, he said, more than two crore toilets have been built under the Clean India campaign. Further, 18 districts and 70,000 villages have been declared open defecation-free, he added.