Despite implementation of Total Sanitation Programme to eradicate the practice of open defecation in Odisha for more than a decade, the coverage of individual household with toilets has been found

The National Green Tribunal Delhi came down heavily on all states in regards with solid waste management and said that if they fail to appear on February 5, it will impose fine of Rs 50,000 on each

Four months after the government kick-started the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan campaign, the Supreme Court on Tuesday declared that merely calling an empty shell of a room a toilet, without providing user

With the effort put into the sanitation programme, the coverage in rural areas has gone up from one per cent in 1981 to 32.70 per cent as per Census 2011, and to 40.60 per cent.

An international body, particularly the World Toilet Organisation, has promoted World Toilet Day for years.

The Swachh Bharat Abhiyan is billed as the most ambitious attack ever on the squalor that is India.