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Swachh Bharat resulting in annual benefits of Rs 53,000 a household: Study

The government's ambitious Swachh Bharat Mission has resulted in annual benefits to the tune of more than Rs 53,000 per household in rural India

Bait and switch: The maths of promises and delivery will have to add up

On the three major subjects on which the country would like to hear from the prime minister - defence expenditure, healthcare spend, and economic difficulties - there is only silence, writes T N Ninan

Swachh Survekshan: US thanks India for felicitating development agency

US Ambassador to India Kenneth Juster expressed happiness over United States Agency for International Development being recognised during Swachh Survekshan 2020 award ceremony.Taking to Twitter, Juster on Thursday said, "So pleased that @MoHUA_India & @SwachhBharatGov recognized @usaid_india at the Swachh Survekshan 2020 award ceremony. Through our partnership with the Government of India, the U.S. is committed to transforming water & sanitation services."After the award ceremony, Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated all those cities who have secured top positions in the Swachh Survekshan 2020. Indore is India's cleanest city in Swachh Survekshan 2020, the fifth edition of the annual cleanliness survey of the country. The city has bagged the spot fourth time in a row. Gujarat's Surat is on the second spot and Maharashtra's Navi Mumbai is on the third position.The event also saw felicitation of Urban Development Ministry's partner organisations including the United ...

Minister Shekhawat launches IVR-based training course on ODF Plus programme

Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat launched the 'Swachh Bharat Mission Academy', an IVR-based training course with modules on Open Defecation Free (ODF) Plus programme

Govt proposal to gauge environment impact of projects a disaster: Rahul

Congress MP says EIA 2020 draft 'seeks to silence the voice of communities who will be directly impacted by environmental degradation'

Sharp hike in demand for work under MGNREGA; ministry may seek more funds

A PTI report quoting senior officials says that the way demand for work has risen under the scheme during the first three months, sizeable fund allocation will be needed to meet the demand.

Economic Survey should deal not just with 'Whats' & 'Whys' but also 'Hows'

Survey lessons like exports' importance for growth and jobs, how govt intervention in markets can be harmful, and wealth creation via privatisation should have been imbibed long ago, writes T N Ninan

Gandhi rewound and revised

Repackaging and shape-shifting Gandhi as a totem of realpolitik, diplomatic nicety, and avant garde tradeoff is one thing - revising him ideologically is another

PMO, FinMin to hold Budget 2020 meetings to discuss ideas to boost economy

Besides the scheduled meetings, the sources said, the PMO is expected to hold several meetings with top secretaries, officials on various ongoing schemes

Funds to cleaning drives, India Inc marks its presence in Swachh Bharat

At a time when Swachh Bharat is coinciding with the ban on single-use plastic, many corporate groups are looking at the two issues together

Over 16 crore rural households have access to toilets: Govt tells LS

Shekhawat said out of the over 16.34 crore rural households which have access to toilets, 2.84 crore are in Uttar Pradesh, 1.59 crore in Bihar and 1.37 crore in West Bengal

Govt's clean diktat to airlines: Promote Swachh Bharat, get flying rights

This is part of Swachh Bharat Pakhwada - a 15-day drive organised by all government ministries to promote cleanliness and sanitation

5 years of Swachh Bharat: More toilets but no end to manual scavenging

Prime Minister Narendra Modi had launched the ambitious Clean India programme, popularly known as Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, on October 2, 2014. How successful has it been? What targets did it miss?

Explained in numbers: How govt saved on costs by building toilets

The economic benefits of having a toilet

What corporate leaders can learn from the Swachh Bharat Mission

The sheer scale of accomplishment under the scheme has key lessons in leadership, project management and planning that can be taken straight to India Inc's boardrooms

Salvoes over open defecation

Many millions of toilets have been built in the past four years, but it still seems implausible that India has, in effect, become a completely different country overnight

'Most families warned of losing govt benefits if they didn't build toilets'

We are also concerned about what happens after a region is declared open defecation free, said RICE director Nikhil Srivastav

Has Swachh Bharat Mission really made India 96% open defecation free?

The Swachh Bharat Mission-Gramin's achievements are built on shaky data left behind by the UPA government

Fake data, inept toilets: Why use, construction don't match in rural India

Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh not open defecation-free yet, contrary to claims

UP, Bihar slowest in constructing toilets under Swachh Bharat Mission: NITI

The Niti Aayog said the constraints faced by the clean India mission are largely related to implementation challenges, including lack of availability of space for construction of household toilets