From participation of other ministries to utilising sanitation as a profitable business model, several steps can be taken to ensure that sanitation practices remain sustained in...
Treatment of faecal sewage, waste water and garbage and their commercial sale could turn sanitation and waste management into profitable business models
Kumhari village in Madhya Pradesh’s Balaghat district attained the open defecation free status in January 2017, thanks to the efforts of an 8 year old boy...
Since the launch of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan in 2014, the Maharashtra government has been successful in making 225 cities and towns of the state open defecation...
A massive 1.96 lakh crores is required to eradicate open defecation from India. Involvement of the corporates can turn the sanitation sector into a profitable business
What we need is well-designed toilets that cater the need and issues which India is currently grappling with – Waste Management and Water Scarcity
While toilet construction is a critical step in ending the scourge of open defecation, most toilets being built under Swachh India mission rely heavily on water....
In the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan review meeting Union Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu and Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar presented certificates to ODF towns - Thanesar,...
The Indian Railways have also taken the Swachh route with the introduction of bio-toilets in trains, as well planning a green corridor track free from human...
As the quest to make India open defecation free continues, this Engineer from Maharashtra does his bit by making low-cost bio-toilets to fulfill the dream of...
Uttar Pradesh has 59,000 gram panchayats and nearly 1 lakh villages in the state. Can it achieve the ambitious target set by Chief Minister Adityanath to...
Sharanamma Bakar, a poor vegetable vendor in Karnataka’s Danapur village gives 1 kg tomatoes free to every family that has built a toilet
Plays, songs and dance performances are being used all across India to spread the message of a Swachh Bharat. How effective are such performance based promotions?
Nagpur has formed 'Good Morning Squads' to stop people from defecating in the open
What started as a fight for toilets grew to tackle issues of child marriage, malnutrition and teenage pregnancies that were endemic to the village. It also...