The Swachh Bharat Abhiyan is an inclusive cleanliness drive with more than 3 million government employees, students from across the country and citizens from various strata...
Under the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, Prime Minister Modi aims to make India Open Defecation Free on 150th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi
A brief visit to Mumbai’s Dharavi slum showed Australian businessman Mark Balla how a lack of toilets in schools was causing little girls to drop out....
Women from different walks of life turned scuba divers for a day to create awareness on ocean pollution and it's environmental impact at Kerala's Kovalam beach
On International Women’s Day, Powrakarmikas, the female workforce of sanitation workers in Bengaluru are going on a strike to demand rightful wages, better work conditions and...
High levels of arsenic have been found in groundwater around the Ganga basin in several parts of India, which can only be countered by technological solutions,...
Jodie Underhill and her Waste Warriors have been instrumental in clearing garbage from some of Uttarakhand's best known tourist spots and are working hard towards a...
Almost half a billion Indians defecate in the open, out of which about 300 million women and girls in India have no access to the most...
About 300 million women in India do not have access to toilets and defecate in the open. A study showed that women who use open defecation...
Sanjana Singh grabbed the limelight in 2015 when she campaigned extensively across villages of Madhya Pradesh to eradicate open defecation. A year later however, the campaign...
With a poor technique of waste composition there is a rise in landfills and contaminated land in Indian cities. Municipalities are struggling to effectively handle the...
23% of girls drop out of school when they start menstruating in India. Looking at this grim reality Soumya Dabriwal and Nitisha Sethia started Project Baala....
From driving out waste, cutting down on river pollution to building toilets, these five women contributed their bit to the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. Read on to...
Even a bustling metropolis like Mumbai does not have enough public toilets for women. This brought the women in the city together to launch the ‘Right...
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...
