{
  "id": 10453400,
  "title": "50 Million Indian Children Lacked School Sanitation Services In 2025: WHO-UNICEF Report",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/28/50-million-indian-children-lacked-school-sanitation-services-in-2025",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-28T13:10:24.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/india/50-million-indian-children-lacked-school-sanitation-services-in-2025-who-unicef-report"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "New Delhi, September 28, 2026: The WHO-UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) report revealed that India alone accounted for 50 million of the 244 million children worldwide who lacked school sanitation services in 2025, representing nearly one-fifth of all children without access. India's progress on school drinking-water access was comparatively better, with around 12 million Indian children lacking drinking-water services at school. However, achieving universal access to basic WASH services in schools by 2030 remains a challenge, as the world is not on track to meet the target, with only five years left until the end of the SDG period.",
  "summary": "New Delhi, September 28, 2026: India accounted for 50 million of the 244 million children worldwide who lacked sanitation services at school in 2025, according to the WHO-UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) report. Nearly one-fifth of the children without access to school sanitation services were in India, the highest number for any country, the report, Progress on Drinking Water, Sanitation…",
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}