The third edition of Mahapatang Mahotsav was held on January 15, 2018 at Agra by volunteers affiliated to The River Connect Campaign. Hundreds of kites were...
Have you ever wondered what happens to the plastic bags, spoons, pet bottles and other such products which you use and discard almost on a daily...
Ever since the inception of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan in 2014, municipal corporations across the country have been coming up with unique initiatives to realise the dream...
Pollution, pollution everywhere, how to breathe clean? 23-year-old Philem Rohan Singh from Manipur decided to embark on a solo cycling tour and raise awareness about India's...
As toxic smog hangs over Delhi and air quality worsens by the hour, the capital has declared a pollution emergency. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has...
People in Delhi NCR are choking in the blanket of smog as air pollution in the capital continues to be above the severe levels. Schools have...
The 12-hour long NDTV-Dettol Banega Swachh India had various celebrities on board to discuss the importance of cleanliness and how they can contribute to the dream...
Heart of the Bollywood film industry, Mumbai, participated in NDTV-Dettol Banega Swachh India Campaign. People from all walks of life gather to clean their city and...
Bengaluru, the capital of Karnataka was part of a cleanliness drive on Gandhi Jayanti on October 2, which is also celebrated as Rashtriya Swachhta Diwas with...
Into its fourth season the NDTV-Dettol Banega Swachh India Cleanathon was flagged off by Campaign Ambassador Amitabh Bachchan, in Mumbai. The 12-hour Cleanathon underlined the importance...
From Allahabad to Bengaluru, from Delhi to Mumbai, the 12-Hour Cleanathon drive sees thousands come out to join clean-up drives across many cities to celebrate Gandhi...
NDTV-Dettol Banega Swachh India into its fourth season will focus on widening the #Mere10Guz agenda, which urged people to clean up 10 yards of their surroundings,...
Meet Binish Desai, a social entrepreneur, waste warrior, and an innovator, who is continuously coming up with different ways of waste recycling and management. Make way...
Have you ever wondered what happens to the waste that you create every month after you dispose of your sanitary napkins? No, right? Well, all the...
13-year-old swachh warriors from Panchayat Union Middle School, Konerikuppa village from Villupuram district of Tamil Nadu, decided to help the elderly lady who swept their school's...
‘Plastic, plastic everywhere, not a land to see'. This may soon become a reality if consumption of plastic is not curtailed and continues to grow. Banning...
A cleanup drive that started two years ago as a personal initiative of Afroz Shah and his neighbour, Harbansh Mathur, soon became the world's biggest and...
‘Swachhata Hi Seva' (Service for Sanitation) cleanliness drive has begun ahead of the third anniversary of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. The massive drive led by the Ministry...
To create awareness on ill-effects of open defecation and to make India an open defecation free country by 2019, the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation...
Rural Uttarakhand was declared open defecation free in June this year. Since the launch of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, 5,84,000 individual toilets have been constructed in 13...
Central Government had set a target of achieving Open Defecation Free status for all the states in India by 2019. Rural Uttarakhand achieved 100 per cent...
Every year more than 100 billion cigarette butts get dumped in the landfills of India. It's a lesser known fact that the cigarette filter is made...
Students from Kirori Mal College, Delhi University have started Project Patradya, a two tier model based on finding alternatives for plastic products. While searching alternatives for...
This World Environment Day,the cities undertook a massive waste management campaign and pledged to adopt the two bin system following the launch of source segregation awareness...
4000 cities across India will join the Nationwide waste management campaign to celebrate World Environment Day on June 5. The campaign is aimed at driving door...
Puducherry Lieutenant Governor Kiran Bedi uses bicycle during weekends to meet common people and hear about the issues.She has now urged the officials of municipal corporation...
‘Nothing is waste and get the best out of waste' is the motto of these three startups - Scarpshala, Recycle India and Anthill creations. From recycling...
India generates around 60 million tonnes of garbage every single day and almost 45 million tonnes, a whopping 75%, of the garbage are dumped untreated in...
To achieve the targets set by the ambitious Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, India needs to solve or at least reduce the burden of its waste. Being one...
According to The World Economic Forum study done on plastic pollution, if plastic pollution continues to rise then oceans will have more plastics than fish by...
Two and a half years since the launch of Swachh Bharat Mission, India's sanitation coverage has risen to 60.53 per cent from 44.72 per cent in...
At the launch of season 4 of NDTV-Dettol Banega Swachh India campaign, Amitabh Bachchan urged the people to collect the waste, segregate it and compost it...
The Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan has been one of the most successful campaigns in India and has now got the pledge and support of millions, but a...
Manual Scavenging in India was made illegal in 1993, but the practice continues to be India's shame to this day. Data from the Ministry of Social...
Did you know by segregating, recycling and composting, a family of 4 can reduce their waste from 1000 Kg to less than 100 kg every year....
Generating almost 62 million tonnes of garbage every day, India has been among the top 10 countries generating the highest amount of Municipal Solid Waste. Out...
Long before the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan was launched, Sikkim became India's first open defecation free state in 2008 as the state government and the local population...
70-year-old Dr Arunoday Mondal, a Padma awardee has been providing healthcare services for free to rural Sundarbans for over two...
Padma awardee Dr. Neelam Kler highlighted the importance of having a holistic healthcare approach to reduce neonatal and maternal mortality...
Dr Indira Chakravarty, who is a Public Health Specialist, said that the Banega Swasth India campaign has helped people understand...
Currently working as the Chairman of the Asian Institute of Gastroenterology and AIG Hospitals in Hyderabad, Padma awardee Dr Nageshwar...
