Bamboo toilets are affordable and durable options for areas with uneven and difficult terrain and can play a significant role towards eradicating open defecation in the...
Many villages in Rajasthan are allegedly seeing restrictions being imposed by local administrations on supply of rations, if villagers do not build toilets in their homes
76 of West Bengal’s towns and cities have been declared open defecation free, as West Bengal gears up to meet its ODF target by August 2018
Actress Bhumi Pednekar kickstarted the intra-district swachhta competition in Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur district. The competition aims to speed up toilet construction and make the district open...
The Delhi government and MCDs have together built over 11,000 public and community toilets since the inception of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, but open defecation in...
In a high level review meeting held in Lucknow, it was decided that besides the Rs 12,000 subsidy for toilets, an additional amount of Rs 12,000...
Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and Odisha together account for a massive 60 per cent of the people in India who still opt to defecate in the...
Gone are the days of drab looking public service messages, ‘Say No To Open Defecation’, ‘Stop Littering’, today across India, cities are adopting creative, witty ways...
Every household in Leh district has dry composting toilet which processes human waste on the spot and turns it into manure 15-20 days
While in most parts of India, Ganesh Chaturthi is being celebrated by worshipping Ganpati idols, the Hunsur Taluk Panchayat in Mysuru district celebrates the festival by...
Hyderabad was declared open defecation free on August 16 but many of the city’s toilets remain devoid of water and cleanliness
Only 2 per cent of the district's population used toilets in 2015, but recent times have seen a sanitation turnaround where over 75,000 homes have become...
Though more than 17 of rural Arunachal Pradesh’s districts have sanitation coverage of above 80 per cent, no city or town in the state has become...
Despite its open defecation free status, the city of Guwahati is struggling to manage its waste effectively, relying more on short term fixes rather than long...
Twinkle Khanna’s picture of a man defecating on Versova beach in Mumbai, a city declared open defecation free, highlights a far deep-rooted problem than just lack...