Long before the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan was launched, Sikkim became India’s first open defecation free state in 2008 as the state government and the local population...
Experts are of the opinion that India needs to work towards faecal sludge management for a safe urban environment, without posing any risk to land and...
A brief visit to Mumbai’s Dharavi slum showed Australian businessman Mark Balla how a lack of toilets in schools was causing little girls to drop out....
Union Minister for Panchayati Raj, Rural Development and Drinking Water and Sanitation, Narendra Singh Tomar announced that 1.7 lakh villages have become open defecation free, under...
Almost 300 million girls and women across the country lack access to toilets. But some of the swachh crusaders felicitated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on...
30-year-old Santara Devi has access to 2 mobile toilets and 1 community toilet both of which are 40-steps away from her, but she still prefers to...
A number of women in India are taking innovative steps, such as using pocket money or mortgaging jewellery to build toilets and put forward the message...
Almost half a billion Indians defecate in the open, out of which about 300 million women and girls in India have no access to the most...
About 300 million women in India do not have access to toilets and defecate in the open. A study showed that women who use open defecation...
Sanjana Singh grabbed the limelight in 2015 when she campaigned extensively across villages of Madhya Pradesh to eradicate open defecation. A year later however, the campaign...
23% of girls drop out of school when they start menstruating in India. Looking at this grim reality Soumya Dabriwal and Nitisha Sethia started Project Baala....
Even a bustling metropolis like Mumbai does not have enough public toilets for women. This brought the women in the city together to launch the ‘Right...
