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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)

July 6, 2021

Billions lack access to WASH services

If trends persist, billions will be left without critical, life-saving WASH services, says a SDG monitoring report

Between 2016 and 2020, the global population with safely managed drinking water at home increased from 70% to 74% (Image: Pxhere)

April 17, 2021

Skilling and engaging first mile actors to enable local water management: Context, opportunities, and engagement possibilities

Based on conversations with Dr Tushaar Shah and Mr Ved Arya

There is an urgency to create a database of such skilled persons and engage them in future programs or on a long-term basis through different engagement models. (Image: ForWater Partners)

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)

March 12, 2021

Young professionals motivate people to participate in rural sanitation

Involving youth to identify appropriate WASH solutions

The Young Professionals worked closely with the District and aimed to fill the gap of the Swachchata Dooths (Image: SCOPE)

December 28, 2020

Sanitation workers amid the pandemic

The pandemic has exacerbated the issues of exclusion and vulnerability of sanitation workers.

Despite the risks and the dire conditions of their work, sanitation workers continued to do their job (Image: C S Sharada Prasad, India Water Portal)

Limited slum space reason behind less toilets

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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

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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

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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

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Just 600 public toilets for Bengaluru's one crore populace

Delhi corporations fail to utilise SBM fund

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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

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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).