Clean India News

Swachh Bharat Abhiyan has increased access to toilets and reduced open defecation in India but not to the extent that the government claims, shows a study.

Despite rapid progress on income and development parameters in the past decade, heights of children grew slowly, and a big contributor is sanitation

In a world where terrorism, radicalization, extremism and mindless hate are dividing nations as well as societies, Mahatma Gandhi's clarion call of peace and ahimsa have the power to unite humanity.

The Swachh Bharat team realised that, if it was to achieve the seemingly impossible goal of an open defecation free India, it had to become a disruptor

The cleanliness is service campaign will continue till Mahatma Gandhi's birth anniversary on 2 October, with PM Modi asking people to rededicate themselves to fulfilling Gandhi's dream of a clean India

Almost 80 million household toilets are estimated to have been built since PM Narendra Modi's 2014 pledge to ensure universal sanitation coverage by October 2019

Narendra Modi's six top infrastructure initiatives, including the Smart Cities project, spent on average just 21% of the $5.6 billion allocated, says a parliamentary committee

While behavioural science provides several interventions to further the cause of a cleaner India, people must do their part by focusing on what they ought to do and not what others seem to be doing

All 4,041 cities and towns in the country will be rated and ranked on various parameters of sanitation and cleanliness under Swachh Survekshan

About 1 million citizens in Mysuru are in the vanguard of a campaign by Narendra Modi to clean up the country and recycle rubbish into compost and electricity