For Telangana the road to Swachhta is long – The deadline for the state to declare its cities Open Defecation Free is October 2, 2017 and...
West Bengal has made considerable progress to take its rural sanitation coverage to 90.98 per cent and may successfully meet its internal deadline of going completely...
Gujarat goes Swachh – After Urban Areas, the state today declared its rural Areas free from open defecation on October 2, 2017. Urban areas were already...
Nearly 1/3rd of Goa’s population require a ‘No Objection Certificate’ (NOC) from the landlord to build a toilet. Blame it on the age old practice of...
Northeastern states of India have progressed slowly but steadily in improving rural sanitation coverage in three years since the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan began, but urban sanitation...
First Kerala becomes a model state by declaring its rural areas open defecation free and now it is on its way to be declared as first...
Bihar’s sanitation coverage of 32.35 per cent is the lowest among all Indian states and the state must step quickly if it is to meet the...
Constructing toilets to attain the status of open defecation is not the only mantra in Chhattisgarh. It is making sure that people use toilet after construction....
Rajasthan’s rural sanitation coverage stands at over 85 per cent and 11 out of its 33 cities are open defecation free, but allegations of coercion in...
Jharkhand’s improvement in rural sanitation deserves praise, but the state still has to build over 15 lakh toilets out of its target of 30 lakh, for...
As the urban area of Madhya Pradesh is all set to go Open Defecation Free (ODF) on October 2, the rural area is struggling to convince...
Urban Haryana consists of 80 Urban Local Bodies, of which 14 including Karnal, Sirsa, Panipat, Ratia, Fatehbad have already attained the status of open defecation free
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...
