Tag Archives: sanitation

How has World toilet college been conceptualised? If you build 110 million toilets, you need to maintain them, clean them, empty them, repair them, and you need public education, skills training and policy influence. In order to tackle poor sanitation, ... Read More »

The three-bucket mop wringer trolley helps wring out the wet mop without much of an effort with the hand. The first bucket contains water with detergent in which the mop is first dipped. The mop is then rinsed in the ... Read More »

With the third IHS event in Colombo in July hitting it big, Clean India Journal has really gone global. The event garnered international attention and the Journal’s effort in association with the members of the Asian Housekeepers Association to raise ... Read More »

Ten new iconic sites, namely, RaghavendraSwamy Temple (Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh); Hazardwari Palace (Murshidabad, West Bengal); Brahma Sarovar Temple (Kurukshetra, Haryana); VidurKuti (Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh); Mana village (Chamoli, Uttarakhand); Pangong Lake (Leh-Ladakh, J&K); Nagvasuki Temple (Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh); ImaKeithal/market (Imphal, Manipur); ... Read More »

A Hyderabad-based company has come up with a unique concept—Loo Cafes. The cafe comprises of three different washrooms that can be used by men, women and the differently-abled. It is set up across a space measuring 170 sq. ft. in ... Read More »

Ahmedabad, India: A garden-cafe having a theme of a toilet is focused on promoting worldwide sanitation and spread awareness about the need for personal hygiene. The Toilet Garden Cafe welcomes up to 30 people and is open twice a week ... Read More »

Rajasthan K.K. Sharma, Chief Engineer at the Local Self Government Department (LSG) of the Government of Rajasthan, started the discussion with a presentation on the ‘Swachh Bharat Mission — Urban Rajasthan’, which covered: an update on challenges and progress, including ... Read More »

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 »