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To Eliminate Manual Scavenging, Promote Mechanised Sewer Cleaning, Centre Launches ‘Safaimitra Suraksha Challenge’ In 243 Cities

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November 19, 2020
To Eliminate Manual Scavenging, Promote Mechanised Sewer Cleaning, Centre Launches ‘Safaimitra Suraksha Challenge’ In 243 Cities
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According to Minister Hardeep Singh Puri, the Safaimitra Suraksha Challenge aims to ensure that no life of any sewer or septic tank cleaner is ever lost again owing to the issue of hazardous cleaning ...
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With Messages Of Hopes And Progress Towards Sanitation, World Toilet Day 2020 Found Ample Support Among Citizens

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November 19, 2020
With Messages Of Hopes And Progress Towards Sanitation, World Toilet Day 2020 Found Ample Support Among Citizens
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Resonating with this year’s theme of ‘Sustainable Sanitation and Climate Change’, politicians, celebrities, organisations and other netizens took to social media on the occasion of World Toilet Day to urge people to adopt good sanitation and toilet habits ...
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43 People Have Died Due To Manual Scavenging This Year, Says Safai Karmachari Andolan’s Bezwada Wilson On Kaun Banega Crorepati

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November 2, 2020
43 People Have Died Due To Manual Scavenging This Year, Says Safai Karmachari Andolan’s Bezwada Wilson On Kaun Banega Crorepati
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Amitabh Bachchan, Campaign Ambassador of NDTV-Dettol’s Banega Swasth India Campaign, welcomed Ramon Magsaysay awardee Bezwada Wilson on Kaun Banega Crorepati 12's Karamveer special episode to raise awareness about the inhuman practice of manual scavenging ...
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From WASH To COVID-19 And Menstrual Hygiene, Bhopal’s Alomati Ray Is A True Warrior Of Change

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October 20, 2020
From WASH To COVID-19 And Menstrual Hygiene, Bhopal’s Alomati Ray Is A True Warrior Of Change
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Alomati Ray, a resident of Jatkhedi slum in Ward 53 of Bhopal, has emerged as a warrior of change by helping her community with access to toilets, educating them about the coronavirus as well as providing menstrual hygiene products during the lockdown ...
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Odisha Government Launches “GARIMA” Welfare Scheme For Sanitation Workers

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ANI
September 14, 2020
Odisha Government Launches "GARIMA" Welfare Scheme For Sanitation Workers
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According to Pratap Jena, Minister for Housing and Urban Development, the newly launched scheme GARIMA will provide social security and financial benefits to sanitation workers and their families ...
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Anushka Sharma Urges People To Maintain Strict Hygiene, Eliminate Open Defecation To Curb The Spread Of COVID-19

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June 2, 2020
Anushka Sharma Urges People To Maintain Strict Hygiene, Eliminate Open Defecation To Curb The Spread Of COVID-19
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Actor Anushka Sharma has come forward to raise awareness on the need to maintain hygiene and sanitation at a time of coronavirus pandemic in the country ...
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Journey Of Sanitation And Hygiene Practice In Rural India

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Written By: Zarina Screwvala
June 1, 2020
Journey Of Sanitation And Hygiene Practice In Rural India
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A lookback at the rural sanitation journey and how Swades Foundation constructed over 20,000 toilets benefiting over a 1,00,000 people through the years ...
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Provided Protective Kits To Sanitation Workers, WHO Guidelines Are Followed: Centre To Supreme Court 

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PTI
April 15, 2020
The plea, filed by social activist Harnam Singh, had said that sanitation workers have no adequate protective gears while carrying out their work
Coronavirus Outbreak News
The Centre said this before a bench through video-conferencing, which was hearing a plea seeking directions to the authorities concerned to provide personal protective equipment (PPE) to sanitation workers who are carrying out their work amid COVID-19 ...
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Second Phase Of Swachh Bharat Mission- Grameen Launched

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PTI
March 4, 2020
Second Phase Of Swachh Bharat Mission- Grameen Launched
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While launching the Phase-II of Swachh Bharat Mission (Grameen), Union Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat said that this phase will ensure that effective solid and liquid waste management is instituted in every gram panchayat of the country ...
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#TwoBinsLifeWins: With Mission Garima, Tata Trusts Urges Indians To Follow Waste Segregation To Help Sanitation Workers

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February 19, 2020
Under Mission Garima, the Tata Trusts have identified and procured technologies to make the process for waste management more mechanical to reduce manual intervention
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The TwoBinsLifeWins campaign is a part of Tata Trusts’ Mission Garima which urges citizens to segregate waste at the source, to make the lives of the sanitation workers better, more dignified ...
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Swachh Bharat For All? Despite Community Toilets Built, Access Remains An Issue For Slum Dwellers In Delhi

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February 11, 2020
From lack of space to build household toilets to lack of regular water supply and connectivity to sewage network, slums posed many problems to the toilet construction spree under the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan
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Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUSIB) built approximately 19,000 community toilets throughout Delhi in the past four years, and yet most of the people living in slums visited by NDTV's Banega Swasth India team, choose to defecate in the open, here’s a ground report ...
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‘We Feel Safe Using Pink Toilets,’ Vote The Women Of New Delhi Who Have Been Experiencing One-Of-Its Kind Facilities Since 2017

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February 11, 2020
Features Status Of Sanitation In Delhi
Pink toilets are more than just about the shade of the paint on these toilets. Meant for only women, these toilets do more than provide privacy to women. Here’s an on-ground report of some pink toilets in Delhi ...
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