With the breakneck speed of expansion of cities, India has the greatest number of urban-dwellers in the world without safe, private toilets and practising open defecation...
For more than a century Kunwar Bai used to travel far away from her home to relieve herself. It was the only way known to her...
Until a few months back, houses in Udham Singh Nagar in Uttarakhand had no toilets. Men and women had to travel miles outside their homes to...
Union Minister Narendra Singh Tomar today said over 1.14 lakh villages have become Open Defecation Free and underlined that the government is aiming to achieve the...
From the moment Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged the ‘Swachh Bharat Mission’ in 2014, it has been the topic of much debate, and now it looks...
Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation (MDWS) on Friday said that three states had become Open Defecation Free (ODF) while four more state were expected to...
Indo-Tibetan Border Police soldier, Vikas Thakur, from Sirmour district in Himachal Pradesh has donated Rs. 57,000 towards PM Modi’s goal of ‘making India defecation-free by 2019.’
Marta, who grew up in Boston, is helping India overcome the problem of open defecation by giving them access to what should be a basic right...
Kerala has become the third Open Defecation Free (ODF) state in the country.
Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh on Friday declared the state free of open defecation under the 'Swachh Bharat Mission', thereby ensuring a clean state.
India remains the biggest open defecation country in the world but at the same time, is the second fastest growing economy. The sanitation and hygiene situation...
14-year-old Agathian would often fall sick and not show up at the school for several weeks. When his friends checked on him at his home in...
Until a month ago, Latha Devi Diwakar from Vidhnu village in Kanpur, was one of the millions of women in India who was forced to defecate...