Open Defecation Is Harmful, Especially For Women. Build And Use Toilets: Anushka Sharma’s Swachh Message

In order to fulfill the dream of Clean India by 2017, Campaign Ambassador, Anushka Sharma is urging the citizens of India to build a healthy and...

Bihar’s Katihar District Encourages Toilet Usage Through Cricket Matches

To bring a behavioural change towards using toilets and make people aware about the ill-effects of defecating in open, Katihar conducts cricket matches in Open Defecation...

#DarwazaBand Campaign With Amitabh Bachchan And Anushka Sharma Promotes Use Of Toilets In Villages

The number of people defecating in the open has reduced from 55 crores in May 2014 to 35 crores in May 2017. Still concerns persist that...

Nearly 5000 Gram Panchayats Have Become Open Defecation Free In Rajasthan

The Chief Minister asked the officers work towards making the remaining over 4900 gram panchayats free from open defecation. Out of 9,891 gram panchayats in Rajasthan,...

Jammu And Kashmir’s First Block Declared Open Defecation Free, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Congratulates Women For Being On The Forefront

Reasi comprising 13 panchayats is the first block in Jammu and Kashmir to achieve the open defecation free mark under the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan

Swachh Bharat, Swasth Bharat: Use Toilets And End Diseases, Says Amitabh Bachchan, Before Launch Of National Campaign To Promote Toilet Usage

The Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation will be launching a nation-wide campaign to promote the use of toilets in villages with Amitabh Bachchan as the...

Uttarakhand All Set To Become Open Defecation Free By May 31: Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat

After Sikkim, Himachal Pradesh and Kerala, Uttarakhand will be the fourth state to achieve the open defecation free status

3 Years Of Prime Minister Narendra Modi Government: 2 Lakh Villages Declared Open Defecation Free

So far 3 states – Kerala, Sikkim and Himachal Pradesh, 139 districts and 2 lakh villages have been declared free from open defecation under the Swachh...

To Curb Open Defecation, National Green Tribunal Directs Officials To Construct Toilets In Delhi’s Unauthorised Colonies

Last week, the National Green Tribunal banned open defecation and waste disposal on the floodplains of Yamuna and imposed a fine of Rs 5,000 incase of...

Despite An Irreparable Tragedy, This Swachh Warrior Remained Resolute In Her Demand For a Toilet

A 12-Year Old’s Dream – Make Toilets For Rural Girls And Create A Plastic Free India

Meet 12-year-old, Monidrita Chatterjee from Jamshedpur who dreams of fighting two ongoing problems in India - open defecation and plastic waste management

Mayor Kamaljeet Sehrawat Directs Officials To Make South Delhi Municipal Corporation Open Defecation Free By June 30

South Delhi Municipal Corporation has claimed that out of 104 wards 92 have already become open defecation free

World Bank Rates Swachh Bharat Abhiyan As ‘Moderately Unsatisfactory’

As per the National Family Health Survey Report conducted between 2015 and 2016, more than half of country’s population lacked improved sanitation facilities- a system that...

Parihar Block In Remote Bihar Declared Open Defecation Free

Out of 273 gram panchayats in Sitamarhi district of Bihar, 160 were declared open defecation free on May 23

New Technologies Have Strengthened Swachh Bharat Abhiyan: Ministry of Science And Technology

To help make India open defecation free by 2019, The Ministry of Science And Technology will develop new technologies to reinvent toilets across India