28-year-old Masuri Gagrai works as an ASHA (meaning hope in Hindi) worker for the 1,446 people of Laujora Kalan village of Jharkhand, an Adivasi area. She...
This Independence Day join Amitabh Bachchan and the Banega Swasth India team as they honour the work done by primary healthcare workers like ASHA, in ensuring...
Trees play a key role in our environment and well-being. They provide an ecosystem for animals, insects, and other life on earth. For two years, The...
With Waste segregation at its core, Nirvana Country, a housing society in Gurugram has kept thousands of kilos of waste away from going to the Landfill.
The "mountains of garbage" dotting India's cities is currently the most critical issues facing our planet. Time and again, experts have said, not segregating our waste...
Team Banega Swasth India visited the location of the Ghazipur landfill that was commissioned in 1984 and its life span expired 20 years ago in 2002....
Waste-to-energy (WTE) plants burn municipal solid waste (MSW) that the city generates to produce electricity. India got the first WTE plant in 1987 in Timarpur, Delhi....
From being a 'no landfill city' to ensuring 100 per cent of the waste generated is treated on the same day, here's how Indore became the...
Of late, Sundarbans is seeing a rise in the frequency of cyclones. These cyclones might not be intense but they are frequent and strong enough to...
14 million litres of water is wasted every year at restaurant tables. Moved by this one fact, in 2015, Garvita Gulhati set on a mission to...
In 1979, a 16-year-old started planting a tree sapling a day. Today, with that one-tree-a-day practice, he has single-handedly created a forest sprawling over the size...
Human-wildlife conflict is a predominant feature of the Sundarbans. Joint forest management is key to improve upon the existing balance so that the environment can exist...
In Sundarbans, the world's largest delta, thousands of people are losing their homes to rising sea levels caused by climate change and frequent cyclones. Here's a...
Team Banega Swasth India speaks with Dr Indira Chakravarty, Padma Shri Awardee, Public Health Specialist & Environmentalist on why India should focus on managing Diarrhoea disease...
From sanitation and menstrual hygiene to waste management, skilling and women-led change, the 7th edition of the ISC-FICCI Sanitation Awards...
National tech startup challenge invites innovators to build affordable gas-detection solutions; winners to receive grants of up to Rs 5...
The awards recognised organisations and individuals for their work, new ideas and contributions to the sanitation sector
