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This 25-Year-Old Student Is Making Squatting Easy With His Unique Toilet Design!
For those who generally struggle to squat on Indian toilets, one 25-year-old student from MIT School of Design has come to your rescue. Sanjay Mittal has designed what he calls the first ever...
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This New, Fully Automated ‘Smart She Toilet’ in Kerala Is an Example to the...
With different sanitary initiatives and projects focusing on Open Defecation Free (ODF) being launched on World Toilet Day across the country on Sunday, Thiruvananthapuram Zoo too observed the day in...
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When Tradition Triumphs Modernity: Ladakh’s Dry Toilets
Ladakh opened itself to the world in 1974 when the Government of India first allowed foreign tourists into this high-altitude region of the Himalayas flanked on either side by China and Pakistan. Since...
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Solar-Powered & Self-Cleaning, These are The Toilets India Needs!
When nature calls, you have to answer. But finding a clean public restroom in India, irrespective of whether it’s a city or a village is no mean feat. You either end up having an experience horrific...
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A Woman from Nagaland is Cleaning Varanasi, One Ghat at a Time
Varanasi (or Benaras), the spiritual capital of India, hosts millions of tourists every year. A majority of these tourists visit the city to bathe in the Ganges. Ironically, the river that is...
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Slums Can Be Clean, and Pune Shows Us How It’s Done
Rajni Vaidyanath Salunke lives in the Kishkinda Nagar slum of Pune. She is one of the over 14 lakh people who live in the 500 slum pockets of Pune and who make do with homes that have often been...
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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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