India has more mobile phones than toilets: UN report

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Issue date:

15 Apr 2010

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Daily Telegraph

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk

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India's mobile subscribers totalled 563.73 million at the last count, enough to serve nearly half of the country's 1.2 billion population.

India has more mobile phones than toilets: UN report

A sadhu uses a mobile phone during Maha Kumbh Mela at Prayag in Allahabad

But just 366 million people - around a third of the population - had access to proper sanitation in 2008, said the study published by the United Nations University, a UN think-tank.

"It is a tragic irony to think in India, a country now wealthy enough that roughly half of the people own phones," so many people "cannot afford the basic necessity and dignity of a toilet," said Zafar Adeel, the UN University director.

India has more mobile phones than toilets: UN report

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