Open Defecation Is Harmful, Especially For Women. Build And Use Toilets: Anushka Sharma’s Swachh Message

In order to fulfill the dream of Clean India by 2017, Campaign Ambassador, Anushka Sharma is urging the citizens of India to build a healthy and...

India’s 2nd Cleanest City Gears Up For World Environment Day With Various Cleanliness Initiatives

Bhopal secured the 2nd rank in Swachh Survekshan 2017, up from its rank of 21 in the previous edition of the survey which rates cities based...

A Distressing Situation: How Sanitation and Water Problems Are Degrading India’s Environment

Polluting waterbodies and unhealthy sanitation practices for long have had significant impact on India’s environment

Bihar’s Katihar District Encourages Toilet Usage Through Cricket Matches

To bring a behavioural change towards using toilets and make people aware about the ill-effects of defecating in open, Katihar conducts cricket matches in Open Defecation...

#DarwazaBand Campaign With Amitabh Bachchan And Anushka Sharma Promotes Use Of Toilets In Villages

The number of people defecating in the open has reduced from 55 crores in May 2014 to 35 crores in May 2017. Still concerns persist that...

Self-Assessment Forms On Cleanliness To Rank Hyderabad’s Zonal Circles On Environment Day

Greater Hyderabad ranked 22nd in the recently released Swachh Survekshan rankings of 434 cities based on cleanliness. Now it plans to improve its performance with self-assessment...

Heroes of Swachh Bharat: How Pivotal Are Anganwadi Workers In Implementing The Campaign’s Objectives?

Over 24 lakh employees in 12 lakh Anganwadis across India are assisting district officials in making the Swachh Bharat dream a reality in rural India

Nearly 5000 Gram Panchayats Have Become Open Defecation Free In Rajasthan

The Chief Minister asked the officers work towards making the remaining over 4900 gram panchayats free from open defecation. Out of 9,891 gram panchayats in Rajasthan,...

Swachh Bharat, Swasth Bharat: Use Toilets And End Diseases, Says Amitabh Bachchan, Before Launch Of National Campaign To Promote Toilet Usage

The Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation will be launching a nation-wide campaign to promote the use of toilets in villages with Amitabh Bachchan as the...

This Small Town In Tamil Nadu Is Ensuring That Wastewater Generated From Households Is Recycled And Put To Good Use

Water supply in Chennai, Tamil Nadu's capital city's principal reservoir of Poondi has dropped from 11,300 litres per second to 3,400 litres per second, indicating a...

To Curb Open Defecation, National Green Tribunal Directs Officials To Construct Toilets In Delhi’s Unauthorised Colonies

Last week, the National Green Tribunal banned open defecation and waste disposal on the floodplains of Yamuna and imposed a fine of Rs 5,000 incase of...

Despite An Irreparable Tragedy, This Swachh Warrior Remained Resolute In Her Demand For a Toilet

A 12-Year Old’s Dream – Make Toilets For Rural Girls And Create A Plastic Free India

Meet 12-year-old, Monidrita Chatterjee from Jamshedpur who dreams of fighting two ongoing problems in India - open defecation and plastic waste management

World Bank Rates Swachh Bharat Abhiyan As ‘Moderately Unsatisfactory’

As per the National Family Health Survey Report conducted between 2015 and 2016, more than half of country’s population lacked improved sanitation facilities- a system that...

New Technologies Have Strengthened Swachh Bharat Abhiyan: Ministry of Science And Technology

To help make India open defecation free by 2019, The Ministry of Science And Technology will develop new technologies to reinvent toilets across India