Swachh Bharat Mission’s progress “very lethargic”: Parliamentary report
Rs 14,088 crore unspent under Swachh Bharat Gramin between April 2017 and May 2018
Unused toilets prompt Haryana to tweak Swachh Bharat Mission
State adds 'cleanliness' as important prerequisite for receiving subsidy
Union Budget 2020-21: Constant decline in Swachh Bharat Mission allocation
Output indicators of the allocation unclear
Simply put: ODF India
Modi declares India ODF
Sustaining the status the next big challenge
Bonded labour, child labour: Manual scavenging in India far from being eradicated
More than 90% manual scavengers were never recorded through the PEMSR Act
Swachh Survekshan Gramin reports 62% toilet coverage, surveys 0.72% villages in India
Toilet construction, rather than usage, seems to be the focus of the survey report
Not yet clean
Swachh Bharat Mission completes two years, but India is far from achieving its goal.
Swachh Bharat Mission: The last push
Over 100 million toilets in five years took a lot of effort; the change is showing now
As told to Parliament (July 3, 2019): 88 people died cleaning sewers in 3 years
All that was discussed in the House through the day
As told to Parliament (July 22, 2019): States asked to form biotechnology coordination panels against GM crops
What is the status of dumpsite remediation across India
Total of 13 states and three UTs are lagging behind the target
Interactive map to monitor gaps in sanitation launched
The map will help monitor the progress in the construction of toilets in all districts
World Toilet Day: India now aims to build one toilet every two seconds
The country needs to play a major role in reducing open defecation
Worthy alternative
A new field experiment shows that fertiliser derived from faecal sludge can improve crop yields
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
The travails of building a toilet – is this the road to a Swachh Bharat?
For poor and marginalized sections, building a toilet still entails a lot of red tape and costs
Inaugural issue of Down To Earth Hindi exposes poor progress of Swachh Bharat Mission
Besides pointing out the associated risks of poor sanitation, the analysis also shows the enormous challenge before the NDA government
Living with asthma in Delhi
Kaushik Das Gupta, one of the participants in the CSE study, wonders if the government will ever announce a ‘clean air package’ for …
ODF India: Is a critical government survey on toilet access, use being withheld?
According to high-level government sources, the survey results contradict the government’s open-defecation free status claim
No toilet built in Delhi under Swachh Bharat Mission; Rs 40 crore remains unused: CAG
The implementing agencies ignored toilet requirements in unauthorised colonies, showing scant concerns for public convenience, says the report
All that crap: How can faecal sludge be reused
If more people in India’s rural areas are building septic tanks, there must be effective ways of managing faecal sludge. Here are some ways …
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 …
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