West Bengal has made considerable progress to take its rural sanitation coverage to 90.98 per cent and may successfully meet its internal deadline of going completely...
Gujarat goes Swachh – After Urban Areas, the state today declared its rural Areas free from open defecation on October 2, 2017. Urban areas were already...
Rajinikanth, Anil Kappor, Riteish Deshmukh and Anushka Sharma, among several other celebrities who will participate in Swachhata Hi Seva campaign, to spread the message of cleanliness
Nearly 1/3rd of Goa’s population require a ‘No Objection Certificate’ (NOC) from the landlord to build a toilet. Blame it on the age old practice of...
Northeastern states of India have progressed slowly but steadily in improving rural sanitation coverage in three years since the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan began, but urban sanitation...
In 2008, 42-year old Imtiaz Ali formed an organisation employing nearly 3,200 rag pickers from Bhopal, today it has grown to a network of 19,000 rag...
National Green Tribunal slammed the National Highway Authority of India over its slow pace in finalising a tender to carry out the collection of segregated waste...
The troops of Ibex Brigade have launched a cleanliness drive in areas of Garhwal and Siachen under the ‘Swachhta Hi Sewa’ campaign where they will work...
First Kerala becomes a model state by declaring its rural areas open defecation free and now it is on its way to be declared as first...
Raipur district in Chhattisgarh as a part of their Swachh Bharat Abhiyan mission, aims to make its Abahanpur block Open Defecation Free by this October 2...
Speaking at an event in Goa’s capital Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar shared how small steps taken in our day-to-day lives can help in reducing the overall...
Bihar’s sanitation coverage of 32.35 per cent is the lowest among all Indian states and the state must step quickly if it is to meet the...
Swachhta like charity needs to begin at home, but condition of Raisina Hill offices show that committment to cleanliness is still a far way off
Constructing toilets to attain the status of open defecation is not the only mantra in Chhattisgarh. It is making sure that people use toilet after construction....
This village panchayat imposed a fine of about Rs 75,000 on a family of 10 as they were practising open defecation