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Robots On Swachh Bharat Mission: Young Innovators From IIT Madras Create 45 Robots That Can Clean An Area In 15 Minutes
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Robots On Swachh Bharat Mission: Young Innovators From IIT Madras Create 45 Robots That Can Clean An Area In 15 Minutes

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Written By: Anisha Bhatia | Edited By: Sonia Bhaskar
November 1, 2017
When technology meets Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, IIT Madras students created robots that can contribute to eradication of manual scavenging and cleanup an area of 750 square feet in 15 minutes ...
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Two Problems, One Solution Karnataka’s Koppal District Addresses Open Defecation, Waste Management With Low Cost Urinals
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Two Problems, One Solution: Karnataka’s Koppal District Addresses Open Defecation, Waste Management With Low Cost Urinals

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Written By: Gopi Karelia | Edited By: Sonia Bhaskar
September 4, 2017
With the help of discarded water cans, paints and basic pipes, civic officials, teachers and students of Koppal district are building a low cost solution to get closer to their open defecation target ...
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Toilet flusher developed by NEERI
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Urinals Can Soon Have Hands-Free Flushing, Courtesy A New Toilet Flusher Developed By The National Environmental Engineering Research Institute

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Written By: Saptarshi Dutta | Edited By: Sonia Bhaskar
August 31, 2017
Instead of the traditional flusher which results in 4 to 5 litres of water in a single flush, NEERI’s low cost flusher utilises only one litre of water ...
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IIT Kharagpur Gives A Push To Swachh India Mission, Invents Low-Cost Smart Hygiene Monitor That Alerts Authorities About Clean-ups
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IIT Kharagpur Invents Low-Cost Smart Hygiene Monitor To Alert Authorities About Cleanups

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Written By: Anisha Bhatia | Edited By: Sonia Bhaskar
August 22, 2017
Technology meets Swachh Bharat Abhiyan! A group of researchers from IIT Kharagpur have developed a low-cost Smart Hygiene Monitoring system that could change the sanitation and Hygiene game of our country and help meet the target of Clean India by 2019 ...
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From Waste To Innovation: Mini-Satellites From Beer Cans And Drones From Straws – This 22-year-old Boy From Bengaluru Makes It All
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Mini-Satellites From Beer Cans And Drones From Straws – This Bengaluru Boy Gives Innovative Twist To Waste Recycling

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Written By: Anisha Bhatia | Edited By: Sonia Bhaskar
July 14, 2017
A satellite that is made using trash cans? Yes, that is possible! One boy from Bengaluru turned it into a reality ...
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An Innovation To Help Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, Kerala Students Launch A Robotic Device To Monitor River Pollution
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An Innovation To Help Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, Kerala Students Launch A Robotic Device To Monitor River Pollution

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Written By: Anisha Bhatia | Edited By: Sonia Bhaskar
July 6, 2017
Soon, checking dissolved water pollution in India’s water bodies and alerting the defaulter industries can be done with ease, all thanks to these college students from Kerala ...
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A Nation Without Plastic Waste – Dream Of A Young Innovator, Can It Be A Reality?

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Written By: Anisha Bhatia | Edited By: Sonia Bhaskar
July 3, 2017
India generates around 56 lakh tonnes of plastic waste annually. It is a hard task to believe that India can become a zero-plastic-waste country, but, this reality can be changed, thanks to innovations like these ...
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Gandhi Chhadi: The Innovative Stick That Picks Waste Without Hand Contact

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Written By: Karanvir Singh | Edited By: Sonia Bhaskar
June 29, 2017
Named as ‘Gandhi Chhadi’, this waste collection tool, recognized by Ministry of Urban Development, provides an efficient and hygienic way of collecting plastic, paper and similar waste ...
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These Little Swachh Warriors Built A Vehicle From Waste Materials To Help Their School Sweeper
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These Little Swachh Warriors Built A Vehicle From Waste Materials To Help Their Aging Cleaner In School

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Written By: Anisha Bhatia
May 29, 2017
The 13-year-old swachh warriors decided to help the elderly lady who sweeps their school’s large playground. What they did was something unique – they built a Sweeping Vehicle made out of waste products which otherwise would have made their way into the dustbins ...
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Trash To Toilets: At 11 He Came Up With The Idea Of Making Bricks From Waste. At 23, He Is Making It A Reality
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Trash To Toilets: At 11 He Came Up With The Idea Of Making Bricks From Waste. At 23, He Is Making It A Reality

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Written By: Anisha Bhatia
May 23, 2017
An innovator and social entrepreneur, 23-years old Binish Desai has successfully designed technologies to build toilets in rural Gujarat using recycled industrial waste and has benefitted around 3,000 people ...
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