Experts are of the opinion that India needs to work towards faecal sludge management for a safe urban environment, without posing any risk to land and...
Women seem to be taking the lead in helping achieve the dream of a 'Swachh' Bharat. Here's how women sarpanches are pushing for cleaner villages
In a move to boost the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, the civic body have passed a rule allowing people to pay 5 rupees and use the hotel...
A brief visit to Mumbai’s Dharavi slum showed Australian businessman Mark Balla how a lack of toilets in schools was causing little girls to drop out....
Union Minister for Panchayati Raj, Rural Development and Drinking Water and Sanitation, Narendra Singh Tomar announced that 1.7 lakh villages have become open defecation free, under...
Almost 300 million girls and women across the country lack access to toilets. But some of the swachh crusaders felicitated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on...
30-year-old Santara Devi has access to 2 mobile toilets and 1 community toilet both of which are 40-steps away from her, but she still prefers to...
A number of women in India are taking innovative steps, such as using pocket money or mortgaging jewellery to build toilets and put forward the message...
Almost half a billion Indians defecate in the open, out of which about 300 million women and girls in India have no access to the most...
About 300 million women in India do not have access to toilets and defecate in the open. A study showed that women who use open defecation...
8,582 villages in Chhattisgarh have been declared Open Defecation Free (ODF). One such village is Sana. But the secret behind the success story of Sana is...
Sanjana Singh grabbed the limelight in 2015 when she campaigned extensively across villages of Madhya Pradesh to eradicate open defecation. A year later however, the campaign...
23% of girls drop out of school when they start menstruating in India. Looking at this grim reality Soumya Dabriwal and Nitisha Sethia started Project Baala....
From driving out waste, cutting down on river pollution to building toilets, these five women contributed their bit to the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. Read on to...
After achieving Open Defecation Free (ODF) status in more than 50 local bodies, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee aims to target make another 21 urban...
