Journey Of Sanitation And Hygiene Practice In Rural India

A lookback at the rural sanitation journey and how Swades Foundation constructed over 20,000 toilets benefiting over a 1,00,000 people through the years

This Mason Uttar Pradesh Who Is On A Mission To Build Toilets In Slums Has Won Nari Shakti Award

Hailing from Sitapur, one of India's most backward districts, 60-year-old Kalavati Devi’s spirit of making toilet accessible to the poor contributed in the construction of a...

Urban Sanitation Journey Though Well Begun, Is Far From Over: Urban Development Minister Hardeep Singh Puri

The Union Minister for Urban Development talks about urban India’s open defecation free journey and says that each one of us should contribute towards making India...

Cabinet Approves Swachh Bharat Phase-II

Swachh Bharat Mission - Grameen Phase-II will be implemented in a mission mode with a total estimated budgeted financial implication of Rs 52,497 crore for the...

Swachh Bharat For All? Despite Community Toilets Built, Access Remains An Issue For Slum Dwellers In Delhi

Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUSIB) built approximately 19,000 community toilets throughout Delhi in the past four years, and yet most of the people living in...

‘We Feel Safe Using Pink Toilets,’ Vote The Women Of New Delhi Who Have Been Experiencing One-Of-Its Kind Facilities Since 2017

Pink toilets are more than just about the shade of the paint on these toilets. Meant for only women, these toilets do more than provide privacy...

On Ground Reports: Thousands Of Toilets Built Since 2014 Yet Access To Toilets Remains An Issue In The National Capital

How is Delhi faring on the sanitation front now that the open defecation free (ODF) deadline set under the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan is done and dusted?

“Building Toilets Is Not Enough To Eradicate Open Defecation,” Experts Stress On The Need To Maintain The Toilets in Delhi

In a city of over 20 million population, access to toilets remains an issue in the city of Delhi. Despite constructing dozens of public toilets, the...

Economic Survey 2019-20: Indian Railways Installs Plastic Bottle Crushing Machines, Bio Toilets And Dustbins To Improve Cleanliness

The economic survey stated that the railways has been taking multiple measures to promote sanitation and hygiene along with improving its cleanliness standards under the ‘Swachh...

Bengaluru’s ‘Shame’ Campaign To Stop Open Urination Gets Mixed Reactions On Internet From Citizens

The campaign to shame those urinating in the open in Bengaluru by installing mirrors in common areas where the practice is prevalent has drawn mixed reactions...

This Family In Uttar Pradesh’s Barabanki District Turns Toilet Into Kitchen, Defecates In Open

Since water would seep through the roof of their hut and flood the kitchen during rains, this family in Uttar Pradesh's Barabanki decided to convert their...

Swachh Survekshan 2020: Bengaluru Takes On Open Urination By Installing Mirrors To Shame Offenders

To stop open urination, Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has come up with one of a kind ‘shame’ campaign under which huge mirrors have been placed...

Before And After Swachh Bharat Abhiyan: Has India Finally Managed To Provide Sanitation For All In This Decade

2019 was the big deadline India set itself for going 100 per cent open defecation free (ODF) under the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, with over 10 crore...

50,000 Toilets Built In In Jammu And Kashmir Under Swachh Bharat Mission, Says Central Government

According to Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry, a total of 45,932 individual household toilets were built in Jammu Kashmir and Ladakh region against target of 60,000...

Deprived Of Toilets For The Longest Time, Residents Of Ludhiana In Punjab Witness A Sanitation Revolution

In 2014, the same year Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, Bharti Foundation started an initiative – ‘Satya Bharti Abhiyan’ to build toilets...