Under the ‘Target Vulnerable Open Defecation Areas’ approach, the Karnal Municipal Corporation first identified the areas prone to open defecation like railways and slum pockets and...
Urban Haryana consists of 80 Urban Local Bodies, of which 14 including Karnal, Sirsa, Panipat, Ratia, Fatehbad have already attained the status of open defecation free
Bijnor district in Uttar Pradesh sets a new toilet record, villagers construct toilets on their own without taking government subsidy and help
The order said that the teachers Mahendra Singh Yadav and Prakash Prajapati were suspended for violating the government’s ambitious Swachh Bharat Mission by going for open...
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...
From the need to end open defecation to why sanitation workers are more important than doctors, Prime Minister Narendra Modi touched wide range of issues pertaining...
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...
With the help of discarded water cans, paints and basic pipes, civic officials, teachers and students of Koppal district are building a low cost solution to...
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...
Meet the little swachh warriors who are on a mission to make Odisha Open Defecation Free. With creativity and regular monitoring of the cleanliness status, these...
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...
Underlining grim facts about the sanitation levels in states of Bihar, Jharkhand and Odisha, Param Iyer, Secretary in the Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation said...