Despite being made illegal in 1993, more than 700,000 manual scavengers are still employed by many households in India
Under the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, the government aims to make India Open Defecation Free (ODF) and achieve 100 per cent sanitation coverage by October 2019
The Ministry of Urban Development announced that it would be introducing a programme to encourage source segregation of waste. It also hopes to set a world...
Daily battles against issues of poverty, illiteracy and landlessness, had kept the inhabitants of Natho Ka Bas village from even thinking about toilets, and open defecation...
River activists in Agra arranged for a protest march to bring to attention the plight of the Yamuna in Agra, which has become a dried up...
Villagers in Maharashtra’s Osmanabad district can win a free trip to Singapore if they succeed in making their villages open defecation free by October 2
Pune's waste-pickers handle about 20 thousand kilograms of dirty diapers and sanitary pads every day, exposing themselves to diseases like staphylococcus, hepatitis, e coli, salmonella and...
From a sanitation coverage of less than 22% to making the entire district Open Defecation Free by next March, Vizianagaram is going through a Swachh revolution
Long before the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan was launched, Sikkim became India’s first open defecation free state in 2008 as the state government and the local population...
Despite its existence for more than two years, the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan is yet to display significant results in the northeastern states of Arunachal Pradesh and...
From launching a new app that can track water projects across the country, to rating how each state provides water to its citizens, this is how...
For 45 years, villagers in Assam’s Gandhigaon had no access to safe drinking water and toilets. It was common for villagers to spend most of their...
3 years since the beginning of the ambitious 'Namami Gange' project, work has been done in building ghats and crematoriums, but progress has been sluggish in...
Nearly 76 million people in India do not have access to safe drinking water, as polluted rivers and poor storage infrastructure over the years has created...
34-year-old Dr Swaminathan Chandramouli runs “Doctor on Wheels”, a mobile-healthcare initiative to provide at-home medical services to senior citizens in...
70-year-old Dr Arunoday Mondal, a Padma awardee has been providing healthcare services for free to rural Sundarbans for over two...
Padma awardee Dr. Neelam Kler highlighted the importance of having a holistic healthcare approach to reduce neonatal and maternal mortality...
Dr Indira Chakravarty, who is a Public Health Specialist, said that the Banega Swasth India campaign has helped people understand...
Currently working as the Chairman of the Asian Institute of Gastroenterology and AIG Hospitals in Hyderabad, Padma awardee Dr Nageshwar...
