On the eve of Independence Day, Puducherry Lieutenant Governor Kiran Bedi stressed on the need to develop a clean environment and asked the local leaders to...
From the time Golden Temple was chosen as one of the ten Swachh Iconic Places in Phase one of the initiative, the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee...
The much needed concerns on urban sanitation were addressed during Swachh Bharat Abhiyan's second year, when more than 13 lakh toilets were built across India's numerous...
Not just villages or cities, the Swachhta fervour reached Railways and tourist places, as major initiatives were taken to maintain cleanliness in such spaces
Though the year is yet to get over, the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan's performance in the current fiscal has been good with the rural areas of Haryana...
Of the total 64 wards, 61 wards have already self-declared themselves as open defecation free and there are enough community toilets within a distance of 500...
The first year of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan saw the unveiling of a nationwide sanitation plan, invitations to states and private organisations for financial participation and...
The Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan was the first campaign to converge toilet construction with other government programmes like MGNREGA, as well as identify some above poverty level...
The Total Sanitation Campaign was a larger programme, with increased subsidies for toilet construction and focus on information and communication to bring in behavioural change among...
The Central Rural Sanitation Programme was the first nationwide sanitation programme launched to address rural sanitation problems and had a comprehensive plan of bettering the sanitation...
The decade of 1980s can be called the first real game changer for sanitation in India as the government took concrete steps to address toilet construction...
Nearly 30 years after independence, sanitation once again become a priority for the administration and was identified as a minimum human need, ensuring government focus and...
Despite independent India’s economic struggles, the Five Year Plans of the 1950s focused on sanitation and allocated decent amounts for improvement of sanitation, though the policies...
A user can simply press the feedback switch if the floor is dirty and this will send an e-notification to the web server, post which the...
Much of India’s sanitation problems today can be traced back to the country’s colonial past, as the practice of administrative apathy continued for decades, even after...