With nearly 80 per cent sanitation coverage across the state, Maharashtra plans to declare all its urban areas as ODF by October 2017
With a planned budget of Rs. 62,000 crores, the Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban) plans to construct 1.2 crore household toilets and 2,50,000 public toilets by 2019
The state government has started a special cleanliness drive from May 10 to May 24 under Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's Nirmal Bangla mission
Kanyakumari aims for total sanitation, not just in terms of toilets built but also in terms of solid and liquid waste management, improvement of sewage systems...
In last year’s Swachh Survekshan, Itanagar was termed the third dirtiest city in the country. This year the city has occupied 216th position Swachh Survekshan
Despite three years of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, both rural and urban areas of Uttar Pradesh have continued to perform poorly in the aspects of sanitation...
To make Raisen district of Madhya Pradesh open defecation free, the Zilla Panchayat Head has set government officials a deadline to construct toilets post which officials...
Over 750 people came together in a rally to raise awareness about the importance of sanitation and hygiene
Akshay Kumar’s next release, Toilet-Ek Prem Katha is based on Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’s theme of cleanliness and deals with the problem of defecating in open
Mufti Nasihur Rahman has created awareness on cleanliness, curbed the practice of open defecation in villages and has ensured clean drinking water facilities through earthenware filters
Since the inception of Swachh Bharat Mission in 2014 more than 1,80,000 villages, 130 districts and three states – Sikkim, Himachal Pradesh and Kerala have been...
Around 293 villages of Kundewadi, a small village in Nashik district, were declared free from open defecation today
Striding two places ahead, Coimbatore was ranked 16th in the Swachh Survekshan 2017. The city was declared open defecation free (ODF) in January this year
According to officials, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has been working towards cleanliness of West Bengal through the 'Mission Nirmal Bangla' and aims to achieve the open...
Though 80 percent villages along the banks of Ganga have become open defecation free (ODF), a lot remains to be done on the untreated sewerage and...