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Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) are crucial to human development. Lack of WASH affects girls’ health and school attendance, particularly after puberty. This has long-term consequences on gender equality and empowerment. Several international efforts (like the World Health Organisation's WASH standards, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (4, 5 and 6)) and national initiatives (like The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act of 2009, the Swachh Bharat Swachh Vidyalaya campaign and guidelines for menstrual hygiene management) are expected to address this issue in schools. There is a need to systematically and regularly collect and disseminate WASH data on school infrastructure facilities and attendance details. This would help assess the achievement of better WASH infrastructure and examine how much it reduces school dropouts. We assess four national-level databases routinely used for studies in human development – the India Human Development Survey, the National Family Health Survey, the National Sample Survey Office and the Unified District Information System in Education. Our study find that there are data limitations for assessing the extent of target achievement. It underscores the need for re-orienting data collection on school attendance and WASH school infrastructure.

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水、环境卫生和个人卫生 (WASH) 对人类发展至关重要。缺乏 WASH 会影响女孩的健康和入学率，特别是在青春期之后。这对性别平等和赋权产生长期影响。多项国际努力（如世界卫生组织的 WASH 标准、联合国可持续发展目标（4、5 和 6））和国家举措（如 2009 年《儿童免费义务教育权利法案》、Swachh Bharat Swachh Vidyalaya 运动）和月经卫生管理指南）有望在学校解决这个问题。需要系统地、定期地收集和传播有关学校基础设施和出勤详细信息的 WASH 数据。这将有助于评估更好的 WASH 基础设施的成就，并检查它在多大程度上减少了辍学率。我们评估了四个通常用于人类发展研究的国家级数据库——印度人类发展调查、国家家庭健康调查、国家抽样调查办公室和统一地区教育信息系统。我们的研究发现，评估目标实现程度存在数据限制。它强调需要重新定位学校出勤率和 WASH 学校基础设施的数据收集。