The team found over 2,000 instances of people still defecating in the open ...
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Open Defecation
Open Defecation
Authorities in three districts of Uttar Pradesh - Varanasi, Agra and Sambhal have merged Swachh Bharat Abhiyan cause with Karva Chauth to encourage husband's gift a toilet to their wives ...
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School students of class 8, 9 and 10 will identify five families in their vicinity and spend two Saturdays every month convincing them to build toilets and end open defecation in rural Andhra Pradesh ...
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Looking at the enthusiasm and participation of residents of Jammu and Kashmir, Union Minister Jitendra Singh hinted at the possibility of state going open defecation free soon ...
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To mark the third anniversary of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan remarkable, Hardeep Singh Puri, Minister of State for Housing and Urban Affairs today announced urban areas of six states open defecation free (ODF). The Centre aims to make the whole of India free from open defecation by October 2019 ...
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A team of 8 volunteers of which six are foreign nationals are on 8-day bike rally. They aim to cover 8 schools situated on their race route everyday to educate children and their parents about the ill-effects of open defecation and unclean surroundings ...
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Progress of Karnataka’s rural areas in becoming open defecation free is commendable but urban Karnataka poses a huge challenge to the state achieving its Swachh Bharta Abhiyan goals ...
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The order said that the teachers Mahendra Singh Yadav and Prakash Prajapati were suspended for violating the government’s ambitious Swachh Bharat Mission by going for open defecation despite having a toilet at their homes ...
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Underlining grim facts about the sanitation levels in states of Bihar, Jharkhand and Odisha, Param Iyer, Secretary in the Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation said that Swachh Bharat Abhiyan isn’t only about building toilets but it is about bringing a behavioral change ...
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Twinkle Khanna’s picture of a man defecating on Versova beach in Mumbai, a city declared open defecation free, highlights a far deep-rooted problem than just lack of toilets ...
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