{"id":17425,"date":"2016-11-03T07:23:48","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T07:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=17425"},"modified":"2016-11-03T07:23:48","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T07:23:48","slug":"second-open-defecation-free-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/second-open-defecation-free-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Open Defecation Free State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: Recently which of the following state has been declared Open Defecation Free (ODF), making it the second State in the country (after Sikkim) to achieve the feat?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) Uttarakhand<br \/>\n(b) Himachal Pradesh<br \/>\n(c) Kerala<br \/>\n(d) Telangana<br \/>\n<strong>Ans: (b)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">On 28 October 2016 State of Himachal Pradesh was declared Open Defecation Free (ODF), making it the second State in the country (after Sikkim) to achieve the feat.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The State government made the declaration at a public event in Shimla.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Union Minister for Drinking Water and Sanitation, Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, Narendra Singh Tomar and the Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare, Shri JP Nadda, were also present on the occasion.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">With this, Himachal Pradesh has successfully achieved total rural sanitation coverage of 100% in the State.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">All 12 out of 12 districts in the State being both, declared as well as verified, as ODF.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">It may be recalled that Sikkim was first Indian state to be declared free of open defecation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=153077\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=153077<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/article\/pti-stories\/himachal-pradesh-becomes-open-defection-free-state-116102801564_1.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/article\/pti-stories\/himachal-pradesh-becomes-open-defection-free-state-116102801564_1.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Recently which of the following state has been declared Open Defecation Free (ODF), making it the second State in the country (after Sikkim) to achieve the feat? (a) Uttarakhand (b) Himachal Pradesh (c) Kerala (d) Telangana Ans: (b) Related facts: On 28 October 2016 State of Himachal Pradesh was declared Open Defecation Free (ODF), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1149],"tags":[2369],"class_list":["post-17425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pls","tag-places"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}