A committee constituted to prepare a draft Ganga Act submitted its report to the Union Ministry of Water Resources
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...
Though scheduled to be effective from April 1, many restaurants in South Delhi remain oblivious of the SDMC notification to allow the general public use toilets...
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...
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...
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....
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,...
30-year-old Santara Devi has access to 2 mobile toilets and 1 community toilet both of which are 40-steps away from her, but she still prefers 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...
