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World Toilet Day 2020: Building Toilets Doesn’t Mean Total Sanitation, There Are Many Goals India Needs To Meet, Says Expert From Centre For Science and Environment

World Toilet Day 2020: Building Toilets Doesn’t Mean Total Sanitation, There Are Many Goals India Needs To Meet, Says Expert From Centre For Science and Environment

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November 18, 2020
As India gears up for World Toilet Day with the theme Sustainable Sanitation and Climate Change, NDTV speaks with Dr Suresh Kumar Rohilla, Programme Director - Water Programme, Centre for Science and Environment to know what is the status of sanitation in India and what the country should focus next ...
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Swachh Bharat Abhiyan: What Are Twin Pit Toilets?

Swachh Bharat Abhiyan: What Are Twin Pit Toilets?

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November 18, 2020
World Toilet Day 2020: Twin pit toilet technology is an onsite waste management system that converts human waste into manure ...
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World Toilet Day 2020: All You Need To Know About The Theme And Significance

World Toilet Day 2020: All You Need To Know About The Theme And Significance

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November 18, 2020
Here is all you need to know about World Toilet Day and why it is celebrated ...
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WASH Warrior: Meet 45-Year-Old Ganesh Nagle, Who Is Ensuring His Fellow Slum Dwellers In Bhopal Are Not Deprived Of Sanitation Facilities

WASH Warrior: Meet 45-Year-Old Ganesh Nagle, Who Is Ensuring His Fellow Slum Dwellers In Bhopal Are Not Deprived Of Sanitation Facilities

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November 17, 2020
Ganesh Nagle was an active proponent of the scheme to construct household toilets under the Swachh Bharat Mission, he also prepared a list of families that were left out of the scheme and shared it with the local ward parishad and Member of Parliament ...
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World Toilet Day 2019: Leaders Urge People Across The Globe To Use A Toilet

World Toilet Day 2019: Leaders Urge People Across The Globe To Use A Toilet

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November 19, 2019
As the world marks World Toilet Day 2019, leaders share the success story of Swachh Bharat Mission ...
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World Toilet Day Contest 2018: Here Are The Top 10 Districts Of India

World Toilet Day Contest 2018: Here Are The Top 10 Districts Of India

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January 4, 2019
The Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation had organised a 10 day long (November 9 – November 19) contest to mark World Toilet Day ...
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India’s First All-In-One Sewer Cleaning ‘Hope’ Machine Unveiled On World Toilet Day

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November 27, 2018
In a bid to end manual scavenging, ‘Hope’ Machine costing Rs. 43 Lakhs and will provide all the services to clean manholes in the coming days ...
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Swachh Rail: Central Railway Introduces E-Toilets In Coaches

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November 27, 2018
After a series of steps taken by the Indian Railways to make the trains cleaner and more hygienic, the Central Railway announced that it will be adding e-toilets to coaches ...
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Swachh India: More Toilets Posing Greater Challenges Of Untreated Sewage

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November 22, 2018
Globally, 57 per cent of the waste is not contained, transported or treated safely and 70 per cent of urban India's sewage goes untreated into rivers and seas ...
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Classical Dance Exponent Geeta Chandran Announces Campaign On Toilet Use Education

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IANS
November 20, 2018
Padma Shri recipient and Bharatnatyam exponent Geeta Chandran launched the campaign to “change the way we approach and use toilets” ...
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World Toilet Day: West Bengal Is On A Mission To Combat The Menace Of Open Defecation

World Toilet Day: West Bengal Is On A Mission To Combat The Menace Of Open Defecation

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November 20, 2018
To mark World Toilet Day, people of West Bengal conducted series of activities to spread the message of Swachh Bharat Mission, safe sanitation, behaviour change and sustainability of the achievements made in sanitation so far ...
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On World Toilet Day, Top Bureaucrats Get Their Hands Dirty To Clean Toilet Pits In Uttar Pradesh

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November 20, 2018
On World Toilet Day, Param Iyer, Secretary Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation and Amitabh Kant, CEO of Niti Aayog, dug out the human waste-turned-compost from a local twin pit toilet in Wajidpur village, Uttar Pradesh ...
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