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Arrange P,Q,R,S to give the correct sequence of the paragraph given below.

P:  Both access to toilets, and the actual use of the toilet, lags among Hindu households. The figure for households without toilets is 47 per cent for Hindu households as against 31 percent for Muslims and 16 per cent for Christians and Sikhs, N5S data shows. Among Hindus, Scheduled Tribes, Scheduled Castes and then OBCs have lower access to toilets. A similar pattern exists for the actual use of toilets among religious groups.

Q: However, researchers Diane Coffey, Aashish Gupta et al of the Research Institute for Compassionate Economics (RICE) found that 7 per cent of households with access to a toilet were not using them. When they looked at households where at least one family member was not using the toilet, the number swelled to 18 per cent. This number is being driven up by men, who, in all three surveys, reported lower toilet use than women.

R: Not having a toilet remains the major problem in sanitation: 60 per cent of rural households and fewer than 10 per cent of urban households in India do not have access to a toilet, according to new official data from the 68th round of the National Sample Survey (NSS) data. But even among households with access to toilets, some open defecation exists. According to NSS data, two per cent of rural households with access to toilets do not use them.

S: The government is aware of this issue. "We are convinced there are two elements to eliminate open defecation ? building toilets, and creating the awareness about of using them/'Sandhya Singh, Joint Director ofNirmal Bharat Abhiyaan, the flagship sanitation scheme for rural areas, told in an interview to the media.

A)  PQRS

B)  RPSQ

C)  SRQP

D)  RQPS

E)  None of these