He’s the consummate villain: terrorizing villagers, pillaging towns and commanding a loyal gang of friends and flies. His name? Mr. Poo.

The sanitation identity card has been made mandatory in government offices to leverage efforts to declare Ilam an Open Defecation Free district.

Goa still ranks an undesirable ninth among states and union territories in the country with 20% of the state's households not having toilet facilities within its premises, according to statistics o

Local teachers have collected donation for the construction of toilets in the homes of residents of Shivanath in Baitedi.

A sanitation commando team has been mobilized to help declare the district as 'open-defecation free' zone by mid-April 2014.

Three projects have received funding support from the Sanitation Financing Partnership Trust Fund, created last year by the Asian Development Bank, in recognition that complex urban and coastal env

Regretting that people still use open toilets all over the country, Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram today stressed the need to expedite and intensify implementation of the total sanitation pro

Despite the district declaring an open defecation free zone, local people of Shikharpur VDC-3 and 7 defecate in the open due to lack of toilets at homes.

Declared open-defecation free zones without necessary homework, a number of ODF villages in Doti are struggling to save face.

Panchthar was declared the first open-defecation free district of the eastern region today.