During the launch the Swachh Sarvekshan 2020, the fifth edition of the annual cleanliness survey to rate the cities, Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh...
As Swachh Bharat Abhiyan saw a 25 per cent reduction in its budget allocation for the FY 19-20, a scheme called ODF Plus has been launched...
According to the Economic Survey 2018-19, 30 States and Union Territories have been 100 per cent covered with individual household latrine and 5.64 lakh villages have...
The study conducted by UNICEF found that government initiatives like Swachh Bharat Mission that focus on improving hygiene practices, as well as generate awareness around safe...
After missing previous deadlines to go open defecation free (ODF), the state government of Goa has invited applications from households that need bio-digester toilets, in a...
Authorities of Gonda District have taken up the mammoth task of constructing over 26,000 household toilets in the rural parts of the district
Despite the construction of over 9 crore toilets, a lot of people still prefer defecating in the open due to the ancient myths surrounding construction as...
In October 2014, Swachh Bharat Abhiyan was instituted to achieve the vision of ‘clean India’ and eliminate the practice of open defecation by October 2, 2019
North Delhi corporation in the national capital region is the only civic body which is yet to be declared open defecation free, officially
After receiving the Open Defecation Free tag, the East Delhi commissioner Dilraj Kaur urged the residents to adopt cleanliness and hygiene as part of their habits
After achieving the Open Defecation Free tag, Haryana is gearing up for the battle of waste management. Though the authorities have started making plan such as...
A look at how the urban slum of Chakkarpur dealt with the lack of access to toilets and washrooms with women taking the lead to give...
The government survey says since its launch in October 2014, the Swachh Bharat Mission has changed the behaviour of hundreds of millions of people with respect...
90 per cent of the women in Udaypura, a village in Jharkhand used to defecate in the open before 2018. Today, every woman in the village...
Though Mumbai have met all the parameters to be called an open defecation free city, it needs to solve problems like lack of water connection, overuse...