Priyanka Bhattacharya

Getting It Right: What We Can Learn From These Cities About Managing Waste

Waste management is a huge challenge and crisis for our country but some cities have managed to put in successful waste management systems and made a...

Swachh Warriors: In Just One Week, These Students Created 9000 Toilets In 107 Villages

Around 6,000 engineering students from Gujarat Technological University (GTU) came together for a special cause – to build toilets across villages in Gujarat. They laboured hard,...

5 Innovative Toilets That Can Change The Face Of Sanitation In India

Over 3 lakh children, under the age of five, die due to diarrhoea and water borne diseases. This is not a phenomenon seen only in remote...

22 Cyclists, 4500 Kms, World’s Longest Cycle Rally To Spread ‘Swachh India’ Message

For the past month 22 cyclists have been cycling through the length of India with a ‘Swachh India’ message. The journey that began in Jammu, and...

Even Coldplay Is Doing Its Bit For The Swachh Bharat Mission

Tick-tock! The wait is over and later in the evening, more than 80,000 fans will be thronging to Mumbai's MMRDA grounds to watch Coldplay in action....

Come Next Week, Delhi NCR To Have Its Own Google Toilet Locator

No Toilet For A Century. Now This 105-Year-Old Is A Swachh Abhiyan Mascot

For more than a century Kunwar Bai used to travel far away from her home to relieve herself. It was the only way known to her...

8000 Toilets In 20 Days. India’s New Toilet Record

Until a few months back, houses in Udham Singh Nagar in Uttarakhand had no toilets. Men and women had to travel miles outside their homes to...

Toilet - Ek Prem Katha: Akshay Kumar's Tribute To 'Swachh India'

From the moment Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged the ‘Swachh Bharat Mission’ in 2014, it has been the topic of much debate, and now it looks...

Inspired By PM Modi, ITBP Jawan Contributes Rs 57,000 For Constructing Toilets

Indo-Tibetan Border Police soldier, Vikas Thakur, from Sirmour district in Himachal Pradesh has donated Rs. 57,000 towards PM Modi’s goal of ‘making India defecation-free by 2019.’

This American Woman Is Changing Lives In Rural India, One Toilet At A Time

Marta, who grew up in Boston, is helping India overcome the problem of open defecation by giving them access to what should be a basic right...

When Big B Was Left Speechless By A Young Boy

When Amitabh Bachchan decided to re-connect with his alma mater, the Sherwood College in Nainital, as part of the NDTV-Dettol Banega Swachh India 12-hour Cleanathon, he...