From participation of other ministries to utilising sanitation as a profitable business model, several steps can be taken to ensure that sanitation practices remain sustained in...
Treatment of faecal sewage, waste water and garbage and their commercial sale could turn sanitation and waste management into profitable business models
Kumhari village in Madhya Pradesh’s Balaghat district attained the open defecation free status in January 2017, thanks to the efforts of an 8 year old boy...
A massive 1.96 lakh crores is required to eradicate open defecation from India. Involvement of the corporates can turn the sanitation sector into a profitable business
While toilet construction is a critical step in ending the scourge of open defecation, most toilets being built under Swachh India mission rely heavily on water....
Uttar Pradesh has 59,000 gram panchayats and nearly 1 lakh villages in the state. Can it achieve the ambitious target set by Chief Minister Adityanath to...
Despite an allocation of Rs. 20,000 crores for 5 years, funds to clean Ganga have not been properly utilised by the NMCG
Plays, songs and dance performances are being used all across India to spread the message of a Swachh Bharat. How effective are such performance based promotions?
What started as a fight for toilets grew to tackle issues of child marriage, malnutrition and teenage pregnancies that were endemic to the village. It also...
The campaign that will cover all urban towns of Maharashtra, aims to spread awareness on the benefits waste segregation, recycling and composting
Authorities have been instructed to fine anyone found to be dumping waste in or near the lake Rs 5 lakh
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) ordered all industrial units in Bellandur to shut down. Despite promising swift measures after the Bellandur fire, civic authorities have admitted...
Despite being made illegal in 1993, more than 700,000 manual scavengers are still employed by many households in India
With more than 1.8 million tonnes a year, the majority of it from the unorganised sector, India is the fifth largest e-waste producing country in the...
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...
