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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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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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TBI Blogs: This 16-Year-Old Is Changing Attitudes & Promoting Better...
Sixteen-year-old Soulya is championing the cause of WASH in her community, trying to bring about a change one step at a time, and making her way to becoming a role-model in her community. For an...
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How a Bunch of College Kids Made Two Delhi Slums Become Almost Completely...
In a bid to prevent open defecation and usher in hygiene and cleanliness among slum-dwellers of New Delhi, a group of college students have initiated a unique campaign that has brought down the open...
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At 16, This Girl Has Taken up the Mission of Making Her Village Open...
A year ago, the small hamlet named Nandgaon near Karjat in Maharashtra had over 100 houses and not a single toilet. The villagers would defecate in the open areas adjacent to a forest near the village....
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TBI Blogs: A Tin Body and a TT Ball Are All You Need to Create This Waterless...
Many government schools across India suffer from poor facilities, including terrible sanitation facilities and urinals. A new innovation is helping schools overcome this issue – waterless urinals for...
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300 Mumbai Students Worked Every Sunday for 2 Years & Gifted 107 Toilets to a...
Students of Kishinchand Chellaram (KC) College in Mumbai have constructed 107 toilets in the village of Karvale in Maharashtra to help it become Open Defecation Free. Considering that millions of...
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Meet the Women From Rural Odisha Who Are Fighting to End Open Defecation in...
Naranga Pujari has Mission Sanitation on her mind. This Self Help Group leader in Bandaguda village of Odisha’s Koraput district has, for the last few years, been working concertedly to spread...
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Bureaucrat Leads by Example, Cleans Toilet Pit in Warangal Village
Setting an unprecedented example, the Central Drinking Water Supply and Swachh Bharat Mission secretary Parameswaran Iyer, who was on a visit to a Warangal village to promote and observe the twin pit...
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Can’t Marry Without Toilet in the House, Say Maulvis & Muftis in HP, Punjab...
In a welcome move, which gives a boost to issues concerning sanitation, maulvis and muftis in states like Haryana, Punjab and Himachal Pradesh have made it mandatory for houses to have toilets for...
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TBI Blogs: Tired of Govt Apathy, These UP Villagers Took Matters in Their...
Open defecation continues to be a prevalent issue in many parts of rural India. Community members from a village in an Uttar Pradesh district are coming together to resolve the problem in their own...
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TBI Blogs: Learn How a Village in UP Is Cleaning up Menstrual Waste...
Menstruation and menstrual waste are still taboo topics in many parts of India, especially in rural areas. Amidst this environment, a small village in Uttar Pradesh has taken a huge progressive towards...
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Sanitation Comes First for the Woman Who Mortgaged Jewellery to Build Over...
The Indian government is working towards making the country open defecation free by October 2, 2019, the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, by constructing toilets across the country. And a...
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Over 4,000 Toilets in South Delhi’s Restaurants Will Be Open for Public Use...
Starting next month, if you ever find yourself in South Delhi and in dire need to use the restroom, you can walk into any of the region’s many restaurants and use their loos. But you may need to pay...
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Mumbai Airport Is Crawling With Bacteria, and It’s a Good Thing! Here’s Why
In the past few months, men who have been using the restrooms at the Terminal 2 (T2) of the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai have probably noticed something different about the...
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All the Moms-To-Be of Kalaburgi District Got a Toilet Scheme, Thanks to This...
ASHA worker Indira Bhai of Gundagurthi village didn’t just build a toilet for her pregnant daughter Bhagyashree, but set in motion a wave of change in the entire Kalaburgi district. When Zilla CEO...
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