Bio-toilets in trains are either unavailable, non-functional or misused: CAG report

The audit team identified 199,689 cases of deficiencies or complaints about bio-toilets

Simply Put: Not a hunger strike

Union Budget 2020-21: Constant decline in Swachh Bharat Mission allocation

Output indicators of the allocation unclear

India becomes open-defecation free but many challenges ahead

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

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

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

Cross Hairs - December 1-15, 2014

Women, convenience

Positive message from Minister's open urination incident

Without providing toilet facilities, how can the idea of SBM be enforced?

A hole in the ground

Urinals and toilets built for pilgrims have little to do with sanitation

High-altitude hygiene

Sanitary by 2010

Participatory survey gives Bangladesh the confidence to prepone sanitation coverage target

Politics of sanitation

Toilet rule fails in Karnataka panchayats

On wrong trek

The ecological perils of commercial hiking

Size does matter

Children's toilets are a breed apart from the everyday adult toilet

Not yet clean

Swachh Bharat Mission completes two years, but India is far from achieving its goal.

Roadblocks for bio-toilets in India

Bio-toilets are gaining ground. But emerging challenges could defeat the purpose

No toilets for girls in one-fifth of India’s schools, enrolment on decline

Dip in number of schools providing midday meals to their students

Dry clean

A Bangalore slum experiments with ecofriendly toilets

Railways pulled up over scavengers

A draft bill allows employing manual scavengers if they are provided protective gears

A toilet per second

Waste, by any other name...

On road to sustainability?

Many nice words, some money but no direction for real change

Centre launches bio-toilets to curb open defecation

Around 100,000 toilets to be built in next two years in 300 gram panchayats

High altitude, high pressure

Ladakh's leadership is alive to many problems. But, challenges are not easy

Panchayati Raj: A good beginning

But will there be a place for traditional institutions in modern local self-governance?