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India, as per official claims and proclamations, is all set to become open defecation free (ODF) on October 2, 2019, a day that marks the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. In the past four years, India has built 100 million toilets in about 0.6 million villages, and another 6.3 million in its cities. By all accounts, it is an incredible feat. As per a 2019 report of the Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) for water supply and sanitation, of Unicef and the World Health Organization (WHO), between 2000 and 2014, open defecation decreased by some 3 percentage points a year, while between 2015 and 2019 it reduced at over 12 percentage points a year. According to government estimates, by February 2019, over 93 per cent of the country’s rural households had access to toilets; over 96...

Union Consumer Affairs Ministry is irresponsible ministry at the center doing nothing to protect rights of consumers and safeguarding interests of consumers against malpractices of providers of goods or services. The ministry-officials swiftly swung in to action when its Minister became victim of waxed apples, but simply issued advisory Guidelines No. J-24-9-2014-CPU(pt.) dated 21.04.2017 to customers going to restaurants to resist levying of service-charge without realizing that people visit restaurants for relaxed dining and not to burden their minds by entering in arguments to resist levying service-charge. If such would have been an isolated case with the Minister, ministry-officials would have issued much-desired order against levying service-charge in bills of hotels and restaurants....