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Which state in India is the first State to achieve 100 percent sanitation coverage?

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Sikkim’s success in sanitation predated the national Swachh Bharat Mission.
Updated On: Jul 15, 2026
  • Andhra Pradesh
  • Karnataka
  • Sikkim
  • Manipur
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Sikkim became India's first state with 100 percent sanitation coverage, having ensured toilets in every household years before the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan was launched nationally in 2014.

  1. Sikkim: The state that reached full coverage first.
  2. Andhra Pradesh: Improved later, mainly under the national mission.
  3. Karnataka: Also achieved full coverage after Sikkim.
  4. Manipur: Reached the milestone later as well.

Sikkim is therefore the correct state.

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Sikkim's small hill-state geography and community-driven approach to sanitation are worth considering directly, since these are the very features that let it move faster than the larger states listed here.

  1. Sikkim: As a compact hill state with strong local government involvement and community-level awareness drives, Sikkim was able to ensure toilet access in every household ahead of any national programme.
  2. Andhra Pradesh: A much larger state with a bigger population to cover, its full coverage took longer and arrived under the national mission's framework.
  3. Karnataka: Also a large state, it needed the scale of the national mission to eventually reach full coverage, later than Sikkim.
  4. Manipur: Despite its own local efforts, its coverage milestone was reached after Sikkim had already achieved the same goal.

Sikkim's smaller scale and early community-driven push let it become the first state to reach complete sanitation coverage.

So the correct answer is Sikkim.

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