An opinion piece titled The truth about Swachh Bharat was published in The Telegraph recently. The Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation has sent out its response to the claims made in the piece about the progress made under the Swachh Bharat Mission (Grameen) and the veracity of the findings of the National Annual Rural […]
Megastar Amitabh Bachchan is again in to keep India clean. The Swachh Bharat Mission Grameen today launched the ‘Darwaza Band -Part 2’ campaign which focuses on sustaining the open defecation free status of villages across the country. The campaign, produced by the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation, was launched in Mumbai in the presence […]
The National Annual Rural Sanitation Survey (NARSS) 2017-18, conducted by an Independent Verification Agency (IVA) under the World Bank support project to the Swachh Bharat Mission Gramin (SBM-G), has found that 93.4% of the households in rural India who have access to a toilet use it. The NARSS also re-confirmed the Open Defecation Free (ODF) […]
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal believes that the state’s lieutenant governor Najeeb Jung and India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi should be held accountable for the rising cases of dengue and chikungunya in the national capital. Until now, the rapidly spreading chikungunya has claimed 4 lives. The vector-borne diseases such as dengue, chikungunya and malaria have […]
