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
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 the recent cabinet shuffle that took place on September 3, former minister for Ganga Rejuvenation and Water Resources, Uma Bharti was given the Ministry Of...
The Delhi High Court termed the sanitation conditions of municipal schools ‘really unfortunate’ and slammed the civic bodies after it procured pictures of children sweeping the...
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...
As the island city of Mumbai came to a standstill on Tuesday due to a heavy rainfall, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation deployed 28,000 workers who worked...
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...
Around 120 residents of Karnataka’s Belagavi District participated in the massive cycle rally held on National Sports Day to spread awareness about Swachh Bharat Abhiyan through...
Instead of the traditional flusher which results in 4 to 5 litres of water in a single flush, NEERI’s low cost flusher utilises only one litre...
Nearly 200 private schools in Nizamabad have been identified as having inadequate sanitation facilities for its students, prompting the municipal corporation to bring together all such...
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...
Technology meets Swachh Bharat Abhiyan! A group of researchers from IIT Kharagpur have developed a low-cost Smart Hygiene Monitoring system that could change the sanitation and...
Coimbatore is the only open defecation free city in the state, despite the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan nearing three years of completion