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...
Raipur district in Chhattisgarh as a part of their Swachh Bharat Abhiyan mission, aims to make its Abahanpur block Open Defecation Free by this October 2...
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....
This village panchayat imposed a fine of about Rs 75,000 on a family of 10 as they were practising open defecation
Poor sanitation due to open defecation often results in impairing the ability of a child to absorb nutrients, leading to a total of 39% of children...
Varanasi aims to go open defecation free by December 2017, the city has increased toilet construction from 47 every day to around 1100 toilets under Swachhata...
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...
As per the agreement, the Bharti Foundation will invest up to Rs. 30 crore for the construction of 20,000 toilets in four blocks of Amritsar district....
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath launched Swachhata Hi Seva in Kanpur along with President Ram Nath Kovind. The Chief Minister highlighted his plans for making Uttar Pradesh...
The government launched a nation-wide, fortnight-long sanitation campaign on September 25 to mark the three years of Prime Minister Narendra Modi government's flagship cleanliness initiative Swachh...
In a meeting on ‘Swachhta hi Sewa’, the Secretary of Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation Parameswaran Iyer said that in the fortnightly cleanliness drive leading...