While Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman stressed on the need for waste management in last year’s budget, experts talk about the on-ground reality and their expectation from...
Ahead of budget 2020, President Ram Nath Kovind while addressing the joint session of Parliament highlighted how schemes like Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, Poshan Abhiyan and Jal...
On January 20, Madhya Pradesh Food and Civil Supplies Minister Pradhuman Singh Tomar, picked up the spade and cleaned waste lying around in a warehouse in...
According to Rishi Garg, Commissioner of Ujjain Municipal Corporation, volunteers from the transgender community have joined hands with the municipal body in order to persuade people...
The ‘swachh’ efforts undertaken by students and teachers of Dulsulma Middle School in the Palamu district of Jharkhand have been commended by NITI Aayog as it...
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: The fifth edition of the annual urban cleanliness survey Swachh Survekshan scheduled to commence from January 4 was launched by the Ministry of...
To maintain the habit of keeping the village clean and healthy, the village elders invite children to join them every Saturday to help in keeping the...
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...
Peddapalli district in Telangana was declared open defecation free (ODF) in 2017 and all 263 villages of the district have undergone a total makeover helping it...
Plogging is a fitness trend that began in Sweden in 2016 that involves jogging and 'plocka upp' (Swedish for 'pick up') non-biodegradable waste on the way
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...
According to a new report published by NGO WaterAid, sanitation workers often come into direct contact with human waste, working with no equipment or protection, which...
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...
On Tuesday (November 19), Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation announced the results of Swachh Survekshan Grameen 2019 and awarded the top districts and villages of...