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Journey Of Sanitation And Hygiene Practice In Rural India

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

The plea, filed by social activist Harnam Singh, had said that sanitation workers have no adequate protective gears while carrying out their work

Coronavirus Outbreak6 years ago

Provided Protective Kits To Sanitation Workers, WHO Guidelines Are Followed: Centre To Supreme Court

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)...

Second Phase Of Swachh Bharat Mission- Grameen Launched

News7 years ago

Second Phase Of Swachh Bharat Mission- Grameen Launched

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...

Under Mission Garima, the Tata Trusts have identified and procured technologies to make the process for waste management more mechanical to reduce manual intervention

News7 years ago

#TwoBinsLifeWins: With Mission Garima, Tata Trusts Urges Indians To Follow Waste Segregation To Help Sanitation Workers

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...

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

Features7 years ago

Swachh Bharat For All? Despite Community Toilets Built, Access Remains An Issue For Slum Dwellers In Delhi

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...

Features7 years ago

‘We Feel Safe Using Pink Toilets,’ Vote The Women Of New Delhi Who Have Been Experiencing One-Of-Its Kind Facilities Since 2017

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...

As part of a special feature series, NDTV reports from the ground on various aspects of sanitation related issues in the capital

Features7 years ago

On Ground Reports: Thousands Of Toilets Built Since 2014 Yet Access To Toilets Remains An Issue In The National Capital

How is Delhi faring on the sanitation front now that the open defecation free (ODF) deadline set under the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan is done and dusted?

NDTV’s Banega Swasth India team decided to conduct an on-ground reality check on the condition of a bunch of public toilets in Delhi

Features7 years ago

“Building Toilets Is Not Enough To Eradicate Open Defecation,” Experts Stress On The Need To Maintain The Toilets in Delhi

In a city of over 20 million population, access to toilets remains an issue in the city of Delhi. Despite constructing dozens of public toilets, the...

While Ravi was declared brought dead by doctors, 35-year-old Sanjay’s condition is critical and is undergoing treatment at the LNJP hospital in Delhi

Manual Scavenging7 years ago

Manual Scavenging: 24-Year-Old Sanitation Worker Dies While Cleaning Sewer In Delhi

24-year-old sanitation worker, Ravi died when he along with another 35-year-old sanitation worker entered a sewer in CBD ground in Delhi’s Karkadooma to clean it

From ODF Plus To Waste Management, Experts Explain What Union Budget 2020 Means For The Swachh Bharat Abhiyan

News7 years ago

From ODF Plus To Waste Management, Experts Explain What Union Budget 2020 Means For The Swachh Bharat Abhiyan

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitaraman announced her second Union Budget on February 1, with an allocation of Rs. 12,300 crores for the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan which is...

Swachh Bharat Abhiyan 2.0: What To Expect For Government’s Flagship Scheme From The Union Budget 2020, Experts Speak

Sanitation7 years ago

Swachh Bharat Abhiyan 2.0: What To Expect For Government’s Flagship Scheme From The Union Budget 2020, Experts Speak

While Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman stressed on the need for waste management in last year’s budget, experts talk about the on-ground reality and their expectation from...

Features7 years ago

WaterAid India’s Photo Exhibition Dives Into The Hidden World Of Sanitation Workers

Through his lens CS Sharada Prasad, an engineer turned into social scientist researching on sanitation access in low and middle-income countries, has dived into the world...