While in as many as 90 countries, progress towards basic sanitation is too slow, India has elevated the challenge of ending open defecation to the highest...
A 65 per cent shortfall in subsidies for toilet construction is affecting Maharashtra's push to ensure a toilet in every urban household under the Swachh Bharat...
At the NDTV-Dettol Banega Swachh India 12-hour Cleanathon, Naina Lal Kidwai, Chairperson, India Sanitation Coalition, talks about the need for faecal sludge management and how it...
In a fortnight-long sanitation campaign organised by Delhi Metro Rail Corporation, Barakhamba Road, Hauz Khas and Okhla Bird Sanctuary metro stations were declared as the cleanest...
Stepping into its fourth year, the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan has achieved significant milestones in both the rural and urban front, though it will take more than...
In its fifth year, the NDTV-Dettol Banega Swachh India Cleanthon looks back at the achievements of the last five years of the campaign and sets the...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said India is hosting world’s biggest ever convention on sanitation this year where sanitation ministers and experts from around the world are...
During the inauguration of a three-day Mahatma Gandhi International Sanitation Convention in New Delhi, President Ram Nath Kovind encouraged the delegates from other countries to use,...
A total of 331 villages of 62 panchayats became open defecation free after the construction of 84,614 individual household latrines (IHHLs) under the Swachh Bharat Mission(Grameen)...
As per the MoU which is for two years,Portugal and Goa governments will collaborate on various issues including the Opa water supply project in north Goa,...
Improvement of sanitation facilities in rural areas has made Northeast India one of the best performing regions in the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, though the urban performance...
Districts of Dhanbad, Khunti, Bokaro, Sahibganj and Purbi Singhbhum in Jharkhand were declared open defecation free by Vice-President M Venkaiah Naidu on September 27. The state...
Health and Sanitation Department of Surat Municipal Corporation is planning a cleanliness based programme packed social activities for sensitizing people and spreading the message of ‘swachhta’...
Long before the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan was launched, Dr Suhas Vithal Mapuskar launched a safe sanitation awareness campaign in Maharashtra’s Dehu, and worked extensively on community-based...
With only a year left for India to become 100 per cent Open Defecation Free (ODF), only 2 out of 30 districts and four out of...