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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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