We All Know We Need More Toilets in the Country. But Can Anybody Say It...
Akshay Kumar wants you to pay attention to the country’s toilets. Or rather, the lack of it to be more specific. The actor, who is known for his philanthropic efforts, has taken to his social media...
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TBI Blogs: How an NGO in Rural Rajasthan Is Encouraging Villagers to Build...
The quest to make India open-defecation-free continues. An organisation is contributing to the drive by offering a unique and sustainable solution in Rajasthan’s villages — EcoSan toilets. Seva Mandir,...
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Bill Gates Praises ‘Swacch’ India, Says It’s ‘Winning the War on Human Waste’
Under government initiative ‘Swacch Bharat’ India is working towards becoming defecation free by 2nd October 2019. In his latest blog entry, Bill Gates highlights the positive impacts of the efforts to...
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Public Toilets Will Soon Be Equipped With Instant Feedback Devices in 11...
Are you one of many Indians who are fed up of using unclean and poorly maintained public toilets, and not having anyone to complain to? Here’s some good news. You may soon be able to lodge a complaint...
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Best Practices for Menstrual Waste? Here’s What Many Indians Don’t Know About...
As a woman from the UK, waste sanitation is not an issue that I’ve ever really had to think about, lest worry about. In the UK, sanitary waste disposal is governed by legislation, this ensures proper...
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This Goan Village Is Beating Open Defecation With Eco-Friendly Toilets That...
Imagine using a public toilet along with five thousand villagers or worse, being forced to defecate in the open. This is the reality of Carambolim, a village in the state of Goa, around five kilometres...
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This UPSC Aspirant Has Helped Build 70 Toilets in a Remote Village
A post graduate from Faculty of Social Sciences, Delhi University and a UPSC aspirant, Ushma Goswami had always wanted to use her knowledge to help society. She had been studying the various social...
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Poop & Earn: How Villages around Raipur Are Making Money by Going Open...
“Hum tumko maar denge – We will kill you,” were the words that Mehataru Sahu, the Sarpanch of Ilda village, heard when he tried to convince the villagers that they should build toilets in their houses....
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Where Does All Your Poop Go? Comic Book Hero Buland Babu Is Here to Tell You...
Have you ever given a thought to what happens after you flush your toilet? Does a sewer system manage all the waste or is it just dumped somewhere? ‘Buland Babu’ is here to not just educate you, but...
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Small Revolutions: Rang De Basanti Director Builds 800 Toilets for a Mumbai Slum
Sanitation and hygiene in the poorest slums have been a distant dream for far too long. But what happens when one individual takes it upon himself to change the course of life in areas like these?...
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TBI Blogs: How Waterless Urinals Can Change the Lives of India’s 139.9...
Water security is an extremely important point to ponder for securing the growth and development of the Indian economy. The countrymen of the second largest populous nation in the world rely directly...
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This Woman Was a Pavement Dweller, Today She Runs a Sanitary Pad...
In 2008 when the jhopadpattis on the pavements of Sewri were demolished, Parveen Sheikh sat by the footpath with her friend Kanta Nada mourning her lost home. Out of 680 homes, according to the 1995...
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Now, Locate Public Toilets Near You on Google Maps in Delhi!
Tired of holding your bladder thanks to lack of toilets in public, or more importantly, hygienically safe toilets in public? The New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) has partnered with Google on the...
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10,000 Toilet Pits in 1 Day: Maharashtra Villages Are Racing to Become Open...
As part of a campaign to make Maharashtra’s Osmanabad district open defecation free, over 10,000 pits have been dug in a single day by local villagers to allow for the construction of as many toilets...
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At UP Schools, Music Is Helping Kids Practice Better Hygiene & Stay...
When Gondappa’s son reached the age of five, he walked with his hands on the ground and feet in the air to the temple of the village Goddess in Thesgora, Madhya Pradesh. A host of villagers accompanied...
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IIT Kharagpur Invents Low-Cost Dirt Detector That Alerts Authorities When a...
Researchers of Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, have achieved another feat by innovating a low-cost dirt detector that will soon open up the possibility of keeping public facilities clean and...
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In an Inspiring Event, a Bengaluru Society Honoured Its Sanitary Workers to...
The Coconut Garden Residents Welfare Association (RWA) is an informal body of residents in Nagarbhavi, Bangalore, and comprises around 130 houses. As is with most of the RWAs, the work of the...
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A Step-By-Step Guide to Making Your Own Eco-Friendly Sanitary Pads. It’s...
The amount of sanitary waste that is generated every year in India remains largely unknown because there are no reliable statistics on the subject. Though the menstrual revolution brought relief to...
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At Last! Delhi Govt Orders 100% Mechanised Sewage Cleaning in City
Delhi Lieutenant Governor, Anil Baijal, issued directives for 100 per cent mechanisation of the sewage cleaning after more than 10 deaths of sanitation workers cleaning sewages manually were reported...
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Was Sholay’s Jai Injured While Defecating in the Open? This Poster Says So!
Remember that scene in the movie Sholay, where Veeru finds Jai wounded on the ground and asks him how he got injured? Jai explains how, because there was no toilet in his house, he went outside to...
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