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Abstract: Millennium development goals have now been replaced by Sustainable development goals. Some unfinished jobs have been prioritized again within Sustainable development goals in a more holistic way for making a better planet for future generations. It has targeted to achieve access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all and end open defecation, paying special attention to the needs of women and girls and those in vulnerable situations by 2030. UNICEF (2018) estimated that, 1 in 7 people or 946 million people practice open defecation, 9 out of 10 people who practice open defecation live in rural areas and India has the largest number of people still defecating in the open. Now, lack of proper sanitation facility, improper disposal of human excreta, lack of personal hygiene lead to various diseases, increase in morbidity and mortality. Apart from affecting the health of the people poor sanitation creates social as well as economic poverty. Girls and women suffer the most in search of a safe and suitable place for defecation. Increasing dropout of girl student and incident of sexual harassment have become matter of shame for India. From this backdrop this paper tries to represent the status of sanitation of rural Sundarban of West Bengal. Namkhana block of South Twenty Four Parganas district in West Bengal has been selected as the study area and a part of Amarabati village of Namkhana block will represent the profile of individual households in rural Sundarban as a case study.