The Total Sanitation Campaign was a larger programme, with increased subsidies for toilet construction and focus on information and communication to bring in behavioural change among...
The Central Rural Sanitation Programme was the first nationwide sanitation programme launched to address rural sanitation problems and had a comprehensive plan of bettering the sanitation...
The decade of 1980s can be called the first real game changer for sanitation in India as the government took concrete steps to address toilet construction...
Nearly 30 years after independence, sanitation once again become a priority for the administration and was identified as a minimum human need, ensuring government focus and...
Despite independent India’s economic struggles, the Five Year Plans of the 1950s focused on sanitation and allocated decent amounts for improvement of sanitation, though the policies...
70 years of independence later, one of India's mighty rivers, the Narmada, remains under severe threat from pollution and indiscriminate disposal of untreated waste into the...
Much of India’s sanitation problems today can be traced back to the country’s colonial past, as the practice of administrative apathy continued for decades, even after...
All the three municipal corporations of Delhi have a poor record of waste segregation and management, and face an uphill task in solving the problems
Many brothers are opting to gift toilets to their sisters on the occasion of Raksha Bandhan, to end the continuous dangers posed by the practice of...
Udaipur has done well to become completely ODF by constructing individual household toilets and public sanitation complexes, along with revamping the existing ones
Bhubaneswar is a potential smart city, but is yet to manage its waste properly, which earned it the 94th rank in Swachh Survekshan 2017
Lead actors Akshay Kumar and Bhumi Pednekar met Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and undertook a cleanliness pledge
Nagpur generates a huge 1,000 tonnes of municipal solid waste daily, prompting its civic body to take some small and large scale measures to address the...
Mizoram has done considerably well in both its rural and urban areas to tackle the state’s sanitation woes, but still it has a long way to...
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...
