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Beyond the sarkari diktat

Book review of Method in the Madness: Insights from My Career as an Insider Outsider Insider

The bare necessities for India

The latest Economic Survey has presented an interesting new index called the Bare Necessities Index. The BNI Index covers five areas that impact the daily lives of a bottom-of-the-pyramid householder

Over 7 mn toilets built in urban areas under Swachh Bharat Mission: Kant

Several transformative initiatives were implemented, Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant said

Housing & Urban Affairs Ministry celebrates 6 yrs of Swachh Bharat Mission

The Union Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry celebrated the achievements under the Swachh Bharat Mission in the past six years on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti on Friday. Speaking at a webinar titled 'Swachhata Ke 6 Saal, Bemisaal', Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri said, "When SBM-U was launched in 2014 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, it was with the vision of achieving 'Clean India' by October 2, 2019, the 150th birth anniversary of the Father of the Nation." "Today, I feel immensely proud, as well as humbled, to see how every citizen of urban India has come together to make that dream a tangible reality. "This spirit of Jan Andolan and Jan Bhagidari the power of collective action and leveraging a healthy spirit of competition is exemplified by the Swachh Survekshan, the annual cleanliness survey of MoHUA," the Housing and Urban Affairs minister said in a statement. The minister said that in Swachh Survekdhan 2020, over 12 crore citizens have participated. "We will need to f

Modi's Swachh Bharat man, Param Iyer calls it a day as sanitation secy

Iyer was given a year's extension to take on the task of providing drinking water to all households by 2024 in February this year.

Nearly 1.8 million unsafe abortions averted in 2019, says Harsh Vardhan

Vardhan, while chairing a virtual meeting on the occasion of World Population Day, also said that this was achieved due to substantial investment in the family planning programme

Mann Ki Baat: PM calls for movement against single-use plastic from Oct 2

The call for a mass movement came days after Modi's Independence Day's address in which he had urged people to shun 'single-use' plastic to protect the environment

A laudable achievement

But Swachh Bharat could have been more than building toilets

Swachh Bharat tackled stigma attached with toilets head on: Expert

When the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) began, India was at just 39 per cent sanitation coverage, and in only five years, over 100 million rural toilets have been built

PM Modi receives 'Global Goalkeeper' award for Swachh Bharat Abhiyan

The cleanliness campaign was launched by the Modi government on Gandhi's birth anniversary on October 2, 2014

Cheering for toilets but with caution

Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation (MoDWS) commissioned two private consultancies, IPE Global and Kantar, to conduct a nationwide survey to verify India's ODF status

The globality of Swachh Bharat

Having started out as a home-grown initiative, the Swachh Bharat Mission now has the potential to branch out globally and trigger a sanitation revolution worldwide