Wastewater Recycling: A Multi-Billion Dollar Opportunity For India To Avoid The Impending Water Crisis

Wastewater recycling in India could become an industry worth billions, with proper participation of governments, urban and local bodies and small industries

Swachh Bharat Abhiyan: Sanitation In Rural Madurai Has Jumped From 30% To 100%

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...

Swachh Survekshan 2017: Union Minister M Venkaiah Naidu Releases Cleanliness Books In 15 Languages

The book titled 'Swachh Jungle ki kahani – Dadi ki Zubani' conveys messages on cleanliness and sanitation in an interesting way

India Has Got Its Cleanest And Dirtiest Cities, All About The Mammoth Process Of Swachh Survekshan 2017

To fulfill Prime Minister Narendra Modi's mission to clean up India, the government has surveyed 434 cities and towns and released the Swachh Rankings which is...

Swachh Survekshan 2017: How Indore Becoming India's Cleanest City Reaffirms Madhya Pradesh As A Model State

From constructing toilets to composting vegetable waste, the Indore Municipal Corporation adopted multiple methods to achieve the status of India’s cleanest city, reaffirming Madhya Pradesh's status...

India's Cleanest Cities In Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh: 10 Facts

The Ministry of Urban Development released the Swachh Survekshan which evaluates and ranks cities based on their performance across various sanitation and cleanliness parameters

Sustaining Rural Sanitation: 5 Ways To Keep The Sanitation Clock Ticking In Rural India

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...

Is This Toilet Clean? Mumbaikers Vote For Sanitation Levels At Pay-And-Use Toilets

To check the sanitation levels of pay-and-use toilets, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) installed polling machines in these 54 public toilets across Mumbai and the results...

Looking For Profit: Can Sanitation And Waste Management Become Sustainable Business Models?

Treatment of faecal sewage, waste water and garbage and their commercial sale could turn sanitation and waste management into profitable business models

Lack Of Swachhta Is Leading To Japanese Encephalitis In Uttar Pradesh: Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath

Ahead of the monsoon season, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has proposed a Swachhta drive in all water bodies to combat Japanese Encephalitis, a disease...

Looking Beyond CSR: Can Private Sector Companies Transform The Sanitation Sector Into A Profitable Business Model?

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

NDTV Wins Media For Sanitation Award For Banega Swachh India Campaign At Indian Sanitation Coalition-FICCI Awards 2017

For outstanding media coverage in the field of sanitation, NDTV has been felicitated with the 'Media For Sanitation’ award by Railways Minister Suresh Prabhu at the...

5 Motivating Quotes On Cleanliness By Amitabh Bachchan

At the launch of season 4 of NDTV-Dettol Banega Swachh India campaign, Amitabh Bachchan urged the people to collect the waste, segregate it and compost it...

3 Crore Toilets But Not Enough Water. Why the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan Needs A Dedicated Water Policy

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....

Open Defecation Free UP: Will Yogi Adityanath’s October 2018 Deadline End State’s Sanitation Woes?

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...