Gandhinagar: Though Gujarat Government claims that it has built the highest number of toilets in the country, government schools in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's home town Vadnagar and chief minister Anandiben Patel's home town Vijapur in Mehsana district do not have toilets. This information was revealed by state education minister Bhupendrasinh Chudasama in the state assembly in a written response to MLA Prahald Patel. The MLA asked, "How many government schools in Mehsana district don't have boys or girls' toilets and what action government has taken so far to address the issue." In response, the minister said, "Vijapur and Vadnagar schools don't have boys or girls' toilets." The Gujarat government has made Rs 780 crore allocation for the construction of seven lakh toilets in 2016-17. According to the official data, a total of 70,29,199 families are in Gujarat as per the 2012 baseline survey, out of which 33,21,047 houses do not have toilets. Till June 2015, a total of 6,48,981 toilets were constructed, while 26,72,066 toilets are yet to be constructed as per the 2012 baseline survey requirement. Progress of 5,52,419 toilets' construction is on various stages. Under the Nirmal Bharat campaign of the government of India, in 2014-15 a total of 4,23,995 toilets were built in Gujarat, while in 2015-16, the government is yet to achieve the target of building 7,30,000 toilets in the state. In rural Gujarat, against the target of 2.11 lakh toilets in BPL(below poverty line) category, only 82,000 toilets were built from 2012-13 to 2014-15 by the panchayat and rural development department. However in the APL(Above Poverty Line) category, it could built 4.33 lakh toilets against the target of 5.70 lakh. However, in public toilet category, against the target of 431, the actual achievement was only 05. In school toilets' construction programme, against 17,287 target the department could built only 4,661 toilets. In Anganwadi toilets, against the target of 8,016, only 2,643 toilets were built. In Anandiben and Prime Minister Modi's own home district Mehsana, according to the information given by the state government, a total of 14,291 families are without toilets as per 2012 survey, while against that the government could provide toilets to only 2,718 families.

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