West Bengal has made considerable progress to take its rural sanitation coverage to 90.98 per cent and may successfully meet its internal deadline of going completely...
Nearly 1/3rd of Goa’s population require a ‘No Objection Certificate’ (NOC) from the landlord to build a toilet. Blame it on the age old practice of...
Northeastern states of India have progressed slowly but steadily in improving rural sanitation coverage in three years since the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan began, but urban sanitation...
Bihar’s sanitation coverage of 32.35 per cent is the lowest among all Indian states and the state must step quickly if it is to meet the...
Union Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar felicitated 120 students in Delhi for keeping their school Swachh and during the programme advised students on why they...
Rajasthan’s rural sanitation coverage stands at over 85 per cent and 11 out of its 33 cities are open defecation free, but allegations of coercion in...
Jharkhand’s improvement in rural sanitation deserves praise, but the state still has to build over 15 lakh toilets out of its target of 30 lakh, for...
As per the agreement, the Bharti Foundation will invest up to Rs. 30 crore for the construction of 20,000 toilets in four blocks of Amritsar district....
The government launched a nation-wide, fortnight-long sanitation campaign on September 25 to mark the three years of Prime Minister Narendra Modi government's flagship cleanliness initiative Swachh...
Under the ‘Target Vulnerable Open Defecation Areas’ approach, the Karnal Municipal Corporation first identified the areas prone to open defecation like railways and slum pockets and...
Bijnor district in Uttar Pradesh sets a new toilet record, villagers construct toilets on their own without taking government subsidy and help
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...
