Meet 21-year-old Reshma Anil Kumar working towards the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goal 5 of achieving gender equality, with a keen focus on LGBTQ+ issues and...
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...
Meet 18-year-old Aditya Mukarji who is on a mission to beat plastic pollution since he was 14 and has become one of the young climate warriors...
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...
As a part of the Van Mahotsav Week, here is a story from Assam, on what is the impact of cutting trees on the land, animals,...
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...
Diarrhoea has a major impact on malnutrition, and has a multiplicative effect on stunting, particularly in children below 2 years of age. As a part NDTV...
Fishing, crab collection, and honey collection are some of the primary occupations of the people of Sundarbans in West Bengal. But this livelihood exposes the local...
Sundarbans, the land of tigers and mangroves, is facing the onslaught of climate change which is affecting the lives and livelihoods of the people. To understand...
Menstruation is a natural, biological process affecting half the world's population. But such is the taboo, myth and stigma around it in India, that it gets...
The Boat Clinics are ensuring quality healthcare, and reaches millions of underprivileged inhabitants. An initiative started in 1997 by SHIS, the Southern Health Improvement Samity, these...
The Birds & Bees Talk programme is teaching adolescents in North East India critical growing up and life skills. These skills are imparted in engaging ways...
On this Independence Day, Dettol Banega Swasth India wrapped up Season 12 with the powerful theme “Azaadi Ka Matlab: Swasth...
From cleaner Himalayan landscapes and better rural sanitation services to wastewater reuse, plastic management and hygiene education, the 9th ISC-FICCI...
The eighth edition of the ISC-FICCI Sanitation Awards put the spotlight on organisations, governments, start-ups, women changemakers and community groups...
