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The census 2011 based information on basic amenities offers an opportunity to assess India’s progress towards access to toilet facility, the first step to end the open defecation, with a decade long Total Sanitation Campaign underway. Evaluating the data of census 2001 and 2011, it turns out that progress in this sphere is slow and non-inclusive. It entirely excludes poorest states with high incidence of toilet deprivation. Progress towards this in India offers a case where the fraction of households without toilet facility decreased along with an increase in its number. The article argues that increase in the number of households without toilet facility is indicative of big policy failure. It suggests that government should take appropriate measures to put an end to open defecation. At the end, article proposes that the performance evaluation in this regard may not merely be based on fraction but aggregate number as well.