Swachh Bharat Mission

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October 4, 2021
Understanding the thinking behind IEC in large programs
Lessons from the Swachh Bharat Mission experience
Pop culture icons like Gabbar Singh are painted on the walls of a toilet complex in New Delhi (Image: Project Raahat, Enactus)
April 13, 2021
Swacchagrahis: The frontline workers of India's largest sanitation program
There is a need for long term sustained engagement of the skilled workforce for water and sanitation
Swachhagrahis are the motivators for bringing about behaviour change concerning key sanitation practices in rural India. (Image: SBM)
Limited slum space reason behind less toilets
Posted on 15 Oct, 2016 08:44 PM
Lack of space major reason behind low toilet penetration in Delhi slum clusters
With just 25 percent of slum clusters having access to individual toilets, the lack of space remains one of the major impediments in the increase in toilet numbers
Two Mumbai slums get bio-digester public toilets
Posted on 08 Oct, 2016 09:57 AM
Bio-digester toilet complexes come up in Dharavi and Mahim in Mumbai
The municipal corporation of Greater Mumbai inaugurated two bio-digester toilet complexes with 30 seats each in the localities of Dharavi and Mahim in Mumbai.
Sanitation workers to go on strike
Posted on 03 Oct, 2016 11:24 AM
Gujarat's sanitation workers threaten to declare strike over manual scavenging
Members of Gujarat's Safai Kamdar Adhikar Andolan have expressed their intent to declare a strike if the government continues with its non-implementation of the provisions of the P
For one crore people, Bengaluru has 600 toilets
Posted on 26 Sep, 2016 09:31 PM

Just 600 public toilets for Bengaluru's one crore populace
Delhi corporations fail to utilise SBM fund
Posted on 19 Sep, 2016 12:14 PM
Swachh Bharat funds remain unused by Delhi's municipal corporations
Three municipal corporations of Delhi have failed to properly utilise funds allotted under the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) to improve their environs, a Centre for
Mapping the Swachh Bharat Mission process: A study of three states
Posted on 15 Sep, 2016 12:00 PM

To accelerate the efforts to achieve universal sanitation coverage and to put focus on sanitation, the Prime Minister of India launched the Swachh Bharat Mission on 2 October, 2014. Following this, guidelines for the implementation of the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) were issued by the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation, Government of India (GoI).
More than just toilets needed to clean India
Posted on 12 Sep, 2016 01:42 PM
Behaviour change and not just toilets needed for Swachh Bharat
A study conducted by the Global Sanitation Fund in the states of Jharkhand, Odisha and Maharashtra has revealed that a number of
Asli Tarakki in the NCR
Posted on 05 Sep, 2016 11:19 PM
Campaign launched to improve sanitation in the NCR 
The ministry of urban development has launched a new awareness campaign–Asli tarakki–aimed at improving sanitation in six cities in the national cap
Dignity and self-respect to drive Swachh Bharat
Posted on 29 Aug, 2016 01:14 PM
Government mulls making 'dignity and self-respect' the focal points of Swachh Bharat 
Maharashtra to use treated water better
Posted on 22 Aug, 2016 09:11 AM
Civic bodies across Maharashtra to treat and utilise STP water better
Following an unforgiving summer, civic corporations across Maharashtra have planned to use treated water from Common Effluent Treatment Pla
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