The state rural development department has joined hands with Unicef Gujarat to develop statewide communication and advocacy strategy for promotion of open defecation-free communities and good hygie

The United Nation today lauded the government’s efforts for taking major initiative in installing ‘a toilet in every household and public school and institution’ in the country.

In some good news for the city, Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) may soon get approval to implement a city sanitation plan worth over Rs3,000 crore.

Goa aims to achieve 100% sanitation coverage and 100% open defecation free to become Nirmal Goa by the year 2014, PWD minister Ramkrishna Dhavalikar said on Monday.

In a two-day National Discussion seminar, which was organised under Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan by Union Drinking Water and Sanitation Ministry at CGO Complex, New Delhi on Saturday, Uttarakhand Peyjal M

The Centre is planning to formulate a law against the use of dry toilets and the erring persons could even be sent to jail, Union Minister Jairam Ramesh said on Friday.

Poor condition of public toilets in the Kathmandu Valley is repelling people from using them, an NGO survey said today.

From plastic portable loos to Sanitary Bonds, only an all-out war on open-sky toilets will remove the stink

As many as 53 district magistrates have reportedly submitted an affidavit to the state government stating that there are no dry toilets in their districts.

Around 42 percent of the city’s total population living in 539 slums is without having access to a proper toilet and appropriate sanitation system.