Swachh Bharat

NEW DELHI: Kerala has become the third Open Defecation Free (ODF) state in the country. The announcement was made on the state’s foundation day. Earlier, Himachal Pradesh and Sikkim had declared themselves Open Defecation Free. “Kerala has become an ODF state,” Drinking Water and Sanitation Secretary Parameswaran Iyer said. He ...

In a bid to help ‘mango man’ or the common people to talk about their grievances about untidy/dirty area or garbage piled up near tourist attractions, the central government has launched a mobile app called ‘Swachh Paryatan’. The Ministry of Tourism said the Swachh Paryatan app is available for Android ...

Karnataka’s Mysuru has achieved the feat of become India’s cleanest city while Bihar’s Dhanbad has land up first in the dirtiest cities category of Swachh Survekshan, a cleanliness monitor which is based on extensive surveys of Indian cities carried out by Quality Council of India (QCI). Mysuru has for the ...

The World Bank has approved a $1.5 billion loan to India for its ambitious ‘Clean India’ campaign. The campaign is putting in efforts to ensure that citizens in rural areas have access to improved sanitation. As per World Bank statistics, of the 2.4 billion people who lack access to improved ...

Kalbelia, a folk dancer who entertains tourists for a living, had vowed to cut half of his moustache if people in his village did not build toilets by the first anniversary of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. His pledge, in a land where a man’s ...

FMCG firm Dabur India said that it will adopt five villages in Uttar Pradesh and make them “Open-Defecation Free” within the current fiscal. The five villages to be adopted by Dabur India are Nandpur, Nagla Gajju, Naraina, Nidhawali, and Domatkri. “Our idea is to turn these villages into model villages ...

According to the survey conducted by citizen engagement platform Local Circles, Gujarat, Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh, Punjab, Karnataka and Himachal Pradesh have shown significant improvement. The survey got responses from over 40,000 citizens and 73% of them were from tier-I and tier-II cities in the age group of 18-50 years. The ...

Even as the corporate sector has failed in its target of building toilets in schools across the country – one of the important announcements of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Independence Day speech last year – a 102-year-old woman in a remote village in Chhattisgarh is in the vanguard of a ...

News: TCS had earmarked a budget of ₹ 100 crore for building dedicated sanitation facilities for girls in selected schools. The initiative aims to boost the enrollment rate and reduce the dropout rate of girl students in the adopted schools, and in turn, improve learning outcomes. Under the fist phase of ...

News: Gujarat so far has maintained a steady progress in the implementation of the project as it also topped the list of states during 2014-15. The PIB report stated that since the launch of Swachh Bharat Mission in October last year, a total of 3.83 lakh individual household toilets and 17,411 ...