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India becomes open-defecation free but many challenges ahead

The challenge now will be mainly be to sustain India's open-defecation free status

Simply put: ODF India

Modi declares India ODF

Sustaining the status the next big challenge

ODF status will mean nothing without faecal sludge & septage management

With faecal sludge treatment still in nascent stage in India, toilets will add to the load of untreated sewage being disposed in water bodies

Sustained focus, behaviour change needed to make people use new toilets: study

Adding a behaviour change component to sanitation programmes can motivate people to use toilets, it finds

Focus on community sanitary complexes: Standing Committee to govt

In its latest report on the status of the Swachh Bharat Mission (Grameen), the Standing Committee on Rural Development said that community …

Sub-Saharan Africans spend 60 hours a year finding a private place to defecate

The state of sanitation is deteriorating in Sub-Saharan Africa, with countries switching from open defecation to unsafe toilets

Swachh Bharat Mission’s progress “very lethargic”: Parliamentary report

Rs 14,088 crore unspent under Swachh Bharat Gramin between April 2017 and May 2018

Findings of nationwide rural sanitation survey leave several questions unanswered

The claim that 93.4 per cent of rural households are using toilets is somewhat questionable

First-of-a-kind study on community-led sanitation reveals implementation challenges

The study identified 43 implementation- and community-related factors which reportedly affect CLT

Menstrual cycle is normal; our attitude towards it is not

Girls and women have to fight social norms as well as lack of access to safe adsorbents, bathing space and water to manage their menstrual cycles

Sense of ownership is equally important: Kurukshetra DC

To look beyond toilets and establish a connection between sanitation and health to trigger a change of mindset in rural India was the central …

Unused toilets prompt Haryana to tweak Swachh Bharat Mission

State adds 'cleanliness' as important prerequisite for receiving subsidy

It’s a fallacy that all Australians have access to clean water, sanitation and hygiene

Drinking water in remote communities is contaminated with uranium, faecal bacteria and nitrates above the recommended levels

Sidelining sanitation

Flushed into the open

INDIA

Women, convenience

From the blurbs

From the blurbs

POOP – It’s not crappy!

If we utilized whole lot of crap India produced per day through open defecation, we could light around 1,092,000 street lights or 72,800 stoves …

Former slum now has its own newspaper

A determined group of youngsters in Shaheed Nagar who started a weekly newspaper find their objectives are slowly being realised.