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8 years agoStarbucks To Go Big On World Environment Day In India, Will Switch To Compostable & Recyclable Packaging
In a bid to cut down plastic waste, all the 138 stores of TATA Starbucks Pvt Ltd across India will switch to eco-friendly cutlery, stirrers, cups,...
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8 years ago
Defying Gender Problems And Open Defecation, Sunita Devi From Jharkhand Is Training Women To Build Toilets
90 per cent of the women in Udaypura, a village in Jharkhand used to defecate in the open before 2018. Today, every woman in the village...
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8 years ago
26-Year-Old Man In Bareilly Is Breaking The Period Taboo With A Sanitary Napkin Bank
26-year-old Chitransh Saxena from Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, started a PadBank in June 2018. 148 girls in the city are getting free sanitary pads every month from...
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8 years ago
How A Visit To Mumbai’s Landfill Inspired A 23-Year-Old To Embark On A Zero Waste Journey
From practising in-house composting, ditching plastic items to switching to a menstrual cup, here’s how T. Lalita from Mumbai is changing her lifestyle to manage waste...
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8 years ago
Swachh Bharat Abhiyan Inspires Mumbai Society To Generate Revenue From Waste
A housing society in Goregaon, Mumbai has converted close to 3.5 tonnes of waste in to 400 kilos of manure within a period of one year....
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8 years ago
ODF Mumbai, A Reality Check: Overused, Unclean And Lesser Number Of Toilets For Women Are Just Some Of Mumbai’s Sanitation Woes
Though Mumbai have met all the parameters to be called an open defecation free city, it needs to solve problems like lack of water connection, overuse...
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8 years ago
ODF Mumbai, A Reality Check: Five Public Toilets In Mumbai’s Crowded Places That Set A Swachh Example
From having disable-friendly toilet seats, installing sanitary napkin vending machines to providing international hygiene standards for free, here’s how public toilets in crowded Mumbai are faring
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8 years ago
ODF Mumbai, A Reality Check: Understanding The Issue Of Open Defecation And Garbage On Mumbai’s Railway Tracks
With commuters littering railway tracks and platforms, defecation on railway tracks and poorly maintained toilets on platforms, can Mumbai have a Swachh rail experience in future?
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8 years ago
ODF Mumbai, A Reality Check: Tackling Problems Of Space, Population And Behavior Change, Here’s How The City Is Ensuring Toilet For All
18 months after achieving the Open Defecation Free status, here’s how Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation is encouraging people to use public toilets
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8 years ago
3 Lakh Volunteers Collect 9,000 Tonnes Of Waste From Over 900 Hospitals In A Four Hour Clean-Up Drive Across India
Three lakh volunteers from Sant Nirankari Charitable Foundation (SNCF), participated in the cleanliness drive conducted in more than 900 hospitals across India including the J J...
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8 years ago
Girls To Get Sanitary Pads In Over 100 Government Schools Of Vadodara
104 government-run schools in Vadodara, Gujarat will get sanitary napkin vending machines and incinerators for free to promote menstrual hygiene among adolescent girls
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8 years ago
In A First For Hyderabad, City Launches Three Pink Toilets With Menstrual Hygiene Management Facilities
Hyderabad has launched three pink toilets with sanitary napkin vending machines and incinerators to give women access to menstrual hygiene facilities
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8 years ago
Plastic Bottles To Plant Pots, Newspapers To Carry Bags: School Students In Chennai ‘Thrash The Trash’
Agal foundation in Chennai is helping school students aged between 9 and 11 to reuse, reduce and recycle waste or discarded items through its ‘Thrash the...
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8 years ago
Indore Reuses Plastic Bottles To Create A Vertical Garden
In a bid to tackle plastic waste and air pollution, the Indore Municipal Corporation replaces plant pots with plastic bottles to develop a vertical garden at...
Why Is Handwashing Important? Chacha Chaudhary And Other Iconic Superheroes Explain
Dettol Hygiene Play Park, A One-Of-A-Kind Initiative To Promote Hygiene Practices Among Children
Reckitt Launches Diarrhoea Net Zero Kit During The 12-Hour Banega Swasth India Telethon: All You Need To Know
Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar Compliments NDTV-Dettol For Banega Swasth India Campaign Initiative
Replace Paper-Based Registry, Now Healthcare Is Just A Click Away With ‘Khushi Baby’ App
Khushi Baby works towards providing villages with digital health solutions. Their mission is to monitor and motivate community health, especially...
‘Yours Mindfully,’ An Organisation By-Youth And For-Youth Makes Mental Health Inclusive And Accessible Through Awareness
As founder and CEO of Yours Mindfully, a youth-led mental health non-profit, Anagha aims to make the world a safer...
India’s Rural Healthcare Workers Are The Backbone Of The Healthcare System
According to the National Health Mission (NHM), improvement in the health outcomes in the rural areas is directly related to...
This ASHA Worker From Uttar Pradesh’s Bahraich Has A Record Of Zero Miscarriages In Seven Years
ASHA Sangini (Facilitator) Saraswati Shukla has a record of zero miscarriages in her seven-year career, assisting births in the Sarsa...
ASHA Worker Rahamath From Bengaluru Ensures Better Healthcare For The Underprivileged In Her Community
Rahamath carries out her duties in GD Mara, the biggest slum in Bengaluru, which houses around 3,000 families
