Punjab closer to ODF sustainability with community toilet guidelines

Recommendations not clear on how to treat waste, reuse groundwater   

Govt shifts focus to sustaining sanitation coverage

The Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation prepares a rural sanitation strategy to maintain open-defecation free status and clear up waste issues

Fast track work on ODF+ and ODF++: Parliamentary panel to govt

Less than 30% of cities certified as ODF+ under Phase 2 of the Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban-2), the panel’s report found

Nudge for better policy results, but cautiously

Nudge, as a tool, is often criticised because it rests on the fundamental premise of ‘libertarian paternalism’

Union Budget 2019-20: Same old wheel, neither oiled nor cleaned

The precipitous economic situation requires government to take control of the economy rather than sub-contract it to private capital

Here is how Agra can improve its rank in Swachh Survekshan 2023

Agra’s perfomance was poor in segregation at source, cleanliness in public places, city beautification, cleanliness of drains and water …

Shocking irregularities found by CAG among toilets constructed in govt schools

Toilets were non-existent, partially constructed, did not have water, were not hygienic and had many other shortcomings

Only 71.3% rural households have access to toilets, shows NSSO data

The report's findings trashes the grand claim of Prime Minister Narendra Modi that India is now open defecation free

Sanitation workers: They clean our poop and face a lot of dangers; here is how

Is Swachh Bharat being achieved at the cost of the health and safety of sanitation workers? Or by funding for infrastructure?

Global Hunger Index: The labyrinth of India’s eternal tryst with hunger and malnutrition

There is a need to pay attention to the understanding of the factors that stand as barriers between nutrition-orirnted policies and their goals …

Swachh Bharat Abhiyan: What are the barriers for toilet construction

Ability to raise the initial funds, lack of space in urban slums and lack of awareness is hampering the sanitation programme

NITI Aayog meeting: PM finally comes around to the existence of water, agrarian crises

These issues existed before elections and persist now. Difference: nobody from the government was owning it up and now they are recognising the …

SBM 2.0 focussed on ODF sustainability: Govt

Swachh Bharat Mission has been one of the key missions of Narendra Modi-led government since its launch in 2014. It aims to make India Open …

I know the havoc that genetically modified crops can wreak

Indians are killing the future of the coming generations by welcoming GMOs in Indian food and environment

Swachh Bharat Mission Phase II guidelines released

Safe toilets, with well managed black and grey water, are the need of the hour, particularly in rural areas

Is India really open-defecation-free? Here’s what numbers say

15% of the total population in India defecates in the open in India, according to WASH report 2021