14-year-old Nisha Kumari in Jammu and Kashmir's Udhampur district ended her 48-hour fast only after the local administration started constructing toilet in her house ...
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Open Defecation
Open Defecation
A class 10 student from Udhampur district sat on a hunger strike to get a toilet at home. Here’s what happened next ...
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Jaipur ranked a poor 215 in Swachh Survekshan 2017, but was declared open defecation free in the first week of 2018 ...
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Despite India’s stunning performance in making 3 lakh villages open defecation free (ODF) and raising the country’s sanitation coverage to 75%, states like Goa, Bihar and Manipur have so far not managed to declare any of their districts ODF in last three years ...
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The Jorhat administration is asking its residents to come forward and donate a toilet to those families who defecate in open and who cannot afford to build a toilet. A whooping 256 toilets have been donated in last seven months ...
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By putting the keyword ‘Swachh Public Toilet’ anyone residing in urban parts of Jharkhand can find the nearest public or community toilet ...
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Every village in Uttar Pradesh’s Firozabad district will form a ‘Toilet Parliament’ by democratically electing its villagers who will look after the entire open defecation free process ...
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Lack of community/public toilets forces the public to defecate and urinate in open with consequences leading to unhygienic conditions and health issues for the city, writes Minister Hardeep Singh Puri in a letter to Delhi government ...
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After the residents of Ranchi’s ward 18 complained about not receiving the second installment (Rs 6,000) of toilet subsidy, Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das gave the municipal officials a 15-day deadline post which action will be taken against the officials ...
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Teachers are already used in number of non-teaching works which burden them, and now the task to check open defecation will not only add to their existing work but is also an insult to their dignity, says, general secretary of Bihar Secondary Teachers' Association ...
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