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Councillors slam garbage heaps, failing sanitation system in Mohali
September 16, 2025 11:59 am
Dalbir Saini, a shopkeeper in Sector 71 market, said, “No sanitation worker has come to our market for the past 25 days.”
Identifying and resolving India’s sanitation issues with decentralised solutions
January 05, 2022 5:08 pm
Humans on average defecate 140 kg of excreta each year and when multiplied with the 1.4 billion people residing in India, it becomes tough to equate access to toilets with access to sanitation
Like Swachh Bharat, Jal Jeevan Mission will benefit the wider economy
February 22, 2020 10:36 am
It is fairly clear now that investment in sanitation is actually a facilitator for broader economic, health and social gains. This is the chain of arguments that we encouraged the sanitation ministers of Africa assembled at Addis Ababa to use to bring their finance ministries on board.
Rural Sanitation Strategy Released: Govt lays roadmap to deal with open defecation, sanitation issues
September 28, 2019 5:38 am
Secretary, Drinking Water and Sanitation, Parameswaran Iyer on Friday said the framework for the rural sanitation programme had been drawn up and would be sent to the Union Cabinet shortly for approval.
Sanitation coverage in India almost doubled: PM Modi
June 07, 2018 6:03 pm
Referring to a United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) study, he said that those villages which are open defecation free, Rs 50,000 which would have otherwise been used for other works, is being saved on an average per family.
Charities Aid Foundation rolls out challenge for sanitation awareness
July 08, 2015 12:15 am
A recent study by UNICEF states 27.6 million children, accounting for 14.7% of the total children enrolled in schools, do not have access to basic toilet facilities.
Techie puts country before self,quits US job to improve sanitation
November 24, 2013 1:39 am
When software techie Swapnil Chaturvedi decided to chuck his high-paying job in the US in 2011 to to work in the field of toilet and sanitation in India,his friends thought he had literally lost it.
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