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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 bathrooms, they had...
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