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Micro-Financing a Toilet Is Not Just Four Walls and a Hardware, It Is a...
One of the most vivid images of the state of sanitation in India was depicted in the Oscar-winning movie Slumdog Millionaire, in which the young protagonist was shown going to his ‘toilet’. If you have...
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You Can Now Ensure That Public Toilets Are Well-Maintained! Here’s How.
In a bid to achieve Open Defecation Free (ODF) cities and towns across the country, the government has come up with a plan that will assign unique identification numbers to public and community toilets...
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Not Just Padman, Here Are the Many Heroes Making Menstruation Easier for Women
Akshay Kumar’s next biopic, Padman, showcases the story of Arunachalam Muruganantham. Muruganantham is from Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, and was affected by the struggles the women in his family faced,...
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Brothers Invent Unique Machine to Improve the Lives of Sanitation Workers
Diptanshu and Mukul Malviya, former students of the St Paul’s Secondary School in Sirohi, Rajasthan, were at a bus station one day when they happened to see a sweeper working. The middle-aged man...
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This IAS Officer’s Unique Initiative Deserves Your Help; Donate a Toilet Today!
Books, clothes, food, money; are usually are donated. Ever thought of donating a toilet? Virendra Mittal, the Deputy Commissioner (DC) of Jorhat, Assam, has initiated a unique concept called Daan...
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Kerala to End the Horror of Manual Scavenging With These Robots
39 deaths were recorded in a period of 100 days in 2017. Cause of death – manual scavenging. Despite the ongoing heated debates about the need to eliminate manual scavenging and adopt mechanised...
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This Indian-Origin Girl Is Battling Against ‘Period Poverty’ in the UK
Some time back, the news of girls as young as 10-years-old in the northern English city of Leeds missing a week of school every month had surfaced. The reason? Their families couldn’t afford to buy...
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6 Steps to Make a Village Open Defecation Free
The Swachh Bharat Mission was initiated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 2 October 2014, with a resolution to achieve Open Defecation Free (ODF) India by 2 October 2019. The task was not just to...
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What Can You Buy in Rs. 183? A Year Worth of Sanitary Pads for a Rural Girl!
The jarring menstrual hygiene crisis in rural India is no secret. But the Maharashtra state government, through a unique scheme, is giving you a chance to sponsor a year worth of sanitary pads for...
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Child Actor Turns Real-Life Sanitation Hero, Offers Movie Fee To Build Toilets
You may remember 15-year-old Mallama. She is the same Danapura girl who fasted for three days to convince her family to build a toilet at home. This is the story of a child artist who will portray the...
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6.3 Cr Indian Girls Lack a Private Toilet. One Organisation is Trying to...
Amid numerous social issues in the country, open defecation and the lack of sanitary facilities for urban and rural poor continues to be a persistent evil that does not always receive the attention it...
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This Actress Single-Handedly Transformed a Drought-Hit Maharashtra Village!
Recently India witnessed one of the biggest farmer agitations ever in Mumbai. Farmers walked for 180 kms to demand their rights and make several other demands. Among the demands was a request to waive...
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This Student’s Tireless Effort Is Making A Karnataka Village Open-Defecation...
28-year-old Vimala Kadam clearly remembers that day in August 2016, when one sight rattled her. She watched in complete horror as a host of elderly citizens formed a serpentine queue. They waited...
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Dedicated Woman Forest Officer Singlehandedly Built 497 Toilets in Tribal...
Unlike people living in urban, rurban and even rural areas of the country, sensitising isolated tribal communities about the importance and need of proper sanitary facilities can be more or less...
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This Award-Winning Bio-Toilet Generates Power & Doesn’t Need Refilling for 15...
Imagine if your toilet tank once filled, didn’t need refilling for the next 15 years! The civil engineering department of IIT Kharagpur has built an award-winning bio-toilet with a giant flush capacity...
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Meet the Ex-IAS Officer Who Left America to Head the Swachh Bharat Mission!
The Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (Clean India Mission) promised to bring open defecation in India down to zero, and the government had also guaranteed that it would build enough toilets in every village and...
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This Pune Man Can Build Portable Toilets out of Recycled Thermocol in Just 2...
What if we said you could take your toilet wherever you go? And that all it would take just two hours to build it? Amused? Don’t be. Because one Swachh Bharat hero from Pune, Maharashtra built such a...
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Exclusive: Building Toilets Isn’t Enough. This Karnataka Town is a Shining...
With India’s urban population all set to touch 600 million in the next 15 years, it is imperative that our cities develop the necessary infrastructure for their residents. A critical component of urban...
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Bring Better Sanitation to Villages and Win Upto Rs 2 Lakh, Says This...
India’s youth can be instrumental when it comes to implementing schemes on the ground. They have the energy and passion for learning new information, and in most cases, their enthusiasm is also fuelled...
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How Toilets are Helping Migrant Women Break Barriers & Become Financially...
Noor Nehar Begum who hails from the Bengali-speaking Muslim migrant community from Bhulukabari Pathar village in Assam’s Barpeta district is an independent woman. For the 1.5 years, she has been...
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This 50-YO Visually-Impaired Man Is a Hero of His Village. Here’s Why!
We often take physically challenged people as somehow inferior, though there are unsung heroes around us who defy this myth. These people prove, time and again, that where there is a will, there is a...
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780 Toilets in 35 Days: Rajasthan Farmer’s Unwavering Vision Makes His...
What are the qualities of a hero? My answer would be someone who puts the needs of others before their own and works relentlessly to make others’ lives a little better. In that vein, let me introduce...
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How Women Played a Huge Role in Making 12 TN Villages Open Defecation Free
As four years of the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) come to an end, it is time to reflect and take stock of how far we have come and what lies ahead. As per the latest government figures, the overall...
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IAS Officers’ Brainwave Helps Pune Villagers Earn Lakhs from Their Toilets!
IAS officer Ayush Prasad, the Deputy Collector of Khed Taluka in Pune, had a persistent problem in the villages under his jurisdiction. Many villagers were not using the toilets built by the...
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How Can Manual Scavenging End in India? The ‘Hope Machine’ Has The Answer!
Even though the Parliament enacted a law prohibiting manual scavenging nearly 25 years ago, this patently illegal practice (and a vile form of caste discrimination) continues to thrive in many cities,...
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This Toilet Has No Flush & Runs on Worms! Here’s How ‘Tiger’ Can Transform...
To solve India’s sanitation crisis, we need innovative solutions that are cost-effective and feasible for last-mile connectivity. It was in 1986 when the Indian government launched the Central Rural...
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Orange Peels Keep Toilets Clean: Jharkhand Man Invents Eco-Friendly Solution
When you relish an orange, what do you do with the peels? Throw them in the dustbin, right? But what if we told you that these peels are changing the face of community toilets in Jamshedpur? Thanks to...
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Bareilly Man Creates Pad Bank for Women, Distributes 12000 Pads Free of Cost!
When Chitransh was in school, he was just as curious as most boys his age, when he saw ads on TV about sanitary pads or when girls and women spoke in hushed whispers about the ‘P’ word. And while the...
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Coming Soon: The ‘SEPoy’ of IIT Madras That Could End Manual Scavenging
Though the Law prohibits manual scavenging, the practice continues unabated. For the most part, those working as manual scavengers remain undocumented, underpaid and exploited. This is a stigmatised...
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In Guwahati, Toilets of All Hotels to Be ‘Public’; Will Be Free For Women & Kids
Neena runs a copper utensils stall in Fancy Bazaar, a popular tourist market place in Guwahati, Assam bustling with local and traditional products like Assamese saris, bamboo pickles, tribal jewellery,...
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Shocked by Stench of Toilets in Govt Schools, 80-Year-Olds Restore Them...
Padmanabha Arkalgudand and Venkatasubba Rao aged 83 years and 81 respectively, are not your usual retirees who are used to spending relaxing days at home. They are community activists who can give the...
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They Lost Their IAF Son to a Crash. Now They Provide Free Schooling to 350...
When Group Captain (retd) Sharad Tewari and his wife Savita, a social activist, received news that their son, Squadron Leader Shishir Tewari, had lost his life in the Mi-17 V5 crash in Arunachal...
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How 200+ Women Across 21 States Built 400+ Toilets in Half the Usual Time!
According to UNICEF, the highest number of people in the world (around 620 million) who practice open defecation, reside in India. And the hazards of open defecation and poor sanitation facilities are...
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Free Toilets & Drinking Water: This Trio’s Innovation Has Impacted 5000+ Lives
Before the crack of dawn, Sonamani Devi, a resident of Dumdi village in Jharkhand, would venture out with her three daughters in the dark. She had no other choice. In the absence of toilets, they had...
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This Man’s Vision Made 2.5 Lakh Households Healthier with Low-Cost Water...
We may not realise it, but water as a resource is slowly and steadily becoming elusive. Several states have faced back-to-back droughts, resulting in villages being declared ‘severely...
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How a Couple Installed 798 Self-Cleaning ‘Smart’ Toilets Across India
Used a public toilet recently? What was the experience like? One of the biggest issues that one faces while using public facilities is that more often than not, they are extremely dirty. But what if...
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Here’s How This NGO Helped Build 10 Lakh Toilets, Produce 543.5 Tonnes of...
“Because we live close to the forest, defecating in the open can be very dangerous for us. There have been so many instances where someone’s been attacked by wild boars or cheetahs when they go out to...
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Pune Duo Convert Old Buses Into Ladies’ Toilets That Have Been Used Over 1...
How often have you had to hold in your pee in the absence of clean toilets? I have completely lost track of the times I have been in such a situation. Sonam Nandawar, a resident of Baner in Pune, faced...
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70-YO Trichy Man Helps Install 1 Lakh Water-Less Toilets, Provides Manure For...
Located about 42 km away from the city of Tiruchirappalli in Tamil Nadu lies the Musiri Panchayat town. Being situated on the banks of the Kaveri river, the abundance of water makes the land fertile...
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Newlywed Woman Finds No Toilet in Husband’s Village, Builds 250 Toilets in a...
Growing up in Dakshinpuri, Delhi, Komal Hadala had never imagined in her wildest dreams that a house without a toilet could exist. However, when fate brought her to Nithora, Uttar Pradesh after...
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Daughter Furthers Padma-Winning Dad’s Legacy, duo Install 1000 Biogas Toilets!
In the early 50s, thanks to his aggressive efforts towards eradicating the problem of Open Defecation (OD) in Dehu, a village in Pune’s Maharashtra’s district, Dr Suhas Vitthal Mapuskar was called ‘ Dr...
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Get Your Car, Bike Sanitised For Free at Petrol Pumps. Here’s How
When co-founders of Bengaluru-based Ontrack, a bike rental company, Harshit Sonthalia and Vansh Jain started sanitising their company bikes, they couldn’t help but think of the hundreds of vehicles on...
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How Did Places With No Fixed Water Supply Wash Hands Against COVID-19? Here’s...
Hot, extended summers are typical in many parts of India. In the hottest parts of the country, one can find interesting and funny expressions for the summer heat — ‘summer, more-summer and...
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NIT Warangal’s Innovation Could Help Sanitise Household Items Without Chemicals
OThe National Institute of Technology, Warangal recently launched the prototype model of a chemical-free sterilisation system named OzoNIT. The device is a reassembled refrigerator, fitted with an...
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Pune Startup’s Innovation Breaks Down Used Sanitary Pads Without Burning Them
Did you know that 353 million women and adolescents in India use sanitary pads, which, in turn, generates up to 125 kgs or more of waste through their menstruating years? Sanitary pads are typically...
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16-YO Buys Water Filters for 100 Parched Families in Hyderabad’s Biggest Slum
Amidst the glitz of the corporate offices, pubs, malls and multiplexes, that are found abundantly in the southern city of Hyderabad in Telangana lies Rasoolpura, one of the city’s biggest slums. With a...
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Biotech Grad’s Tech for Odourless & Waterless Urinals Saves 55 Cr Litres of...
Ever been struck by the sickening stench when you pass a public washroom? Well, that is because of the uric salt present in human urine. When it comes in contact with water, it reacts and leads to the...
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Looking for a Clean Toilet When Outside? This App Maps All Usable Restrooms...
Born and raised in Pune, Amol Bhinge has been living in the United States for the past 22 years. He currently works for a global multinational company as an engineer, designing electronic chips, in...
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Bindeshwar Pathak: Crusader for Sanitation Who Gave India Millions of Toilets...
In the heart of India’s social landscape stands a figure whose tireless efforts have transformed the lives of millions, transcending the barriers of caste, class, and tradition. Bindeshwar Pathak, a...
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Bored of Usual Weekend Plans? Join These 7 Beach Cleanups in Mumbai
One of the fondest stories the previous generation recounts is of the countless hours spent on the beach. Weekends, they would say, meant sunny skies and sandy shores. But what was once a cherished...
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