In a bid to sustain their cleanliness standards and move towards an open defecation free plus status, this panchayat in Manglore is observing sanitation days every...
Karnataka adds another milestone in its Swachh Kitty, declares Uttara Kannada free from open defecation. The overall target for the state to be declared ODF is...
These trains come with an 'auto janitor’ system in toilets that automatically cleans and deodorises toilets
The mission has attained great momentum, which is reflected in the commitment of all 4,041 cities and towns to become ODF by December 2018, much before...
The city of Visakhapatnam was declared open defecation free more than a year ago but stray instances of open defecation has prompted the municipal corporation to...
A year after rural Kerala was declared Open Defecation Free, the urban areas in the southern state are now gearing up to achieve the ODF status...
After the residents of Ranchi’s ward 18 complained about not receiving the second installment (Rs 6,000) of toilet subsidy, Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das gave the...
By turning open defecation free on November 27, Solapur district joined Pune, Nagpur, Jalna and Thane that are scaling up rural Maharashtra’s overall sanitation coverage to...
Chennai’s probable ODF declaration may get into murky waters as instances of people defecating in the open are still reported
The initiative has been taken up by the state’s Higher Education Council so that first year college students can contribute towards improving sanitation and hygiene in...
Teachers are already used in number of non-teaching works which burden them, and now the task to check open defecation will not only add to their...
The Lohardaga district administration in Jharkhand, on the World Toilet Day, kicked off a massive behavioral change campaign under which the residents who give up the...
With each seat costing upto Rs 98,000, the Kerala government will construct more than 500 toilet complexes across the state with an aim to sustain the...
The aim of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan is to build approximately 11 crore toilets and end open defecation by 2019 out of which about 5.3 crore toilets...
On World Toilet Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi says, “We reaffirm our commitment towards improving sanitation facilities across our nation.”