Tag Archives: sanitation

India’s poor sanitation facilities and lack of sanitation awareness have proved to be highly detrimental to the country’s economic growth. But thanks to the Swacch Bharat campaign, religious leaders, cine stars, sports icons, industrialists have been propogating the awareness and ... Read More »

Clean India Journal has been a prominent Voice of the Cleaning Industry, for the last 10 years. Over the years, through various articles in the magazine coupled with the Clean India Shows and other events, the magazine has raised awareness ... Read More »

The Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation in association with the Government of Assam has kicked off a clean-up drive at the Kamakhya temple in Guwahati, Assam. Advanced sweeping machines were distributed by Minister Narendra Singh Tomar and Chief Minister ... Read More »

As India celebrated International Women’s Day on March 8, this year, a strategic philanthropy foundation, Dasra revealed the other side of the coin that adolescent girls who are nearly 10% of the country’s population do not have access to private ... Read More »

Sanitation survey in Mumbai starting from January 5, 2015 under SBM (Swachh Bharat Mission) will also take inputs from Citizens. Mumbai was placed at 147th place among 476 cities in sanitation survey conducted in 2015. Quality Council of India (QCI) ... Read More »

The Panchkula Municipal Corporation (MC) has floated tenders to outsource sanitation work. The corporation also announced to cut workforce of minimum three people in all wards to assign them sanitation work in other sectors. The move is in line to ... Read More »

The Education Department has issued notice to all schools in Cuddalore, Kancheepuram Tiruvallur and Chennai districts to submit a report on the status of sanitation work. The various parameters to be covered include toilets, chlorination of water storage containers, furniture, ... Read More »

SDMC (South Delhi Municipal Corporation) proposed to allocate 42% of the entire budget on sanitation and education. In FY2016-17, SDMC has announced total Rs 4,056.57 crore for education and sanitation services, allocating 21.13% and 21.49% of total budget, respectively. The ... Read More »

Ottawa’s transit stations community toilets may begin coin-operated services. As per the Ontario Building Code, finance and economic development committee of Ottawa needs to install toilets across five locations including Tunney’s Pasture, Bayshore, Place d’Orléans, Blair, and Baseline. The committee will also install washrooms ... Read More »

The Legislative Assembly Committee on Environment in J&K inspected Doda district municipal areas, government hospital and various solid waste management plant to review sanitation and cleanliness facilities. The committee including Chairman MLA Inderwal GM Saroori along with legislators Shyam Lal ... Read More »

CCP (Corporation of the City of Panaji) has planned to construct 62 toilets in Panji city to avoid the problem of open defacation in the city. These toilets will increase the density of public toilets to every 100-150 meters in ... Read More »

Infosys Foundation completed the construction work of 161 toilets in State of Odisha. The initiative was undertaken by the CSR division of Infosys Bhubaneswar, to support ‘Swachh Bharat Swachh Vidyalaya Abhiyan’ kicked off by Honourable Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The ... Read More »

In a country where 64% of citizens defecate in open and 6.4% of the GDP is lost in health costs, productivity losses and reduced tourism revenues, it is essential to have a toilet at every public place. However, don’t you ... Read More »

As part of its business diversification activity Stone India Ltd has now designed and developed Unique Aerobic Biological Toilets supported and funded by Ministry of Science and Technology. This unique biological toilet has now been approved for Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, ... Read More »

Taking cognisance of the PM’s recall to make India ODF, Manda Mhatre, MLA-Belapur, Navi Mumbai recently announced to construct 30 toilets in her constituency under the MLA fund. Given the fact that there are no urinal facilities particularly for women ... Read More »

New initiatives ‘Make in India’ and ‘Clean India Mission’ have geared up the socioeconomic feature of the country. Increasing CSR funds and new FDI inflows have been channelized to boost the country’s infrastructure. Suprita Anupam finds out the new market ... Read More »

“Cleanliness promotes better health. You have a responsibility to keep your homes, surroundings and city clean.” These words often ring in our ears, and left uncared and unnoticed later. They often end up as futile words. For instance, If this ... Read More »

March 16-22, 2015, was marked as the National Rural Drinking Water and Sanitation Awareness Week by the Ministry of Rural Development, Panchayati Raj and Drinking Water & Sanitation, Government of India. The week long extensive awareness drive aimed to promote ... Read More »

Andrés Hueso, WaterAid’s Senior Policy Analyst – Sanitation, looks at the potential of mobile monitoring to reduce over reporting in the Swachh Bharat Mission. The new sanitation campaign in India, the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM), is about to bring some ... Read More »

Lack of education and awareness among the communities in the backward regions and in remote localities of the nation has been pushing them towards impoverished life. They are engulfed with superstitions and different socio-religious taboos; have poor awareness about cleanliness, ... Read More »