Berhampur's ODF status questioned as public toilets remain neglected
2 months, 1 week ago

Berhampur's ODF status questioned as public toilets remain neglected

New Indian Express  

BERHAMPUR: Berhampur city was declared open defecation-free in 2018. Two years later, the Berhampur Municipal Corporation was awarded ODF++ ranking in the Swachhata Sarvekshan conducted by the Centre. But the acute shortage of functional public toilets and garbage strewn in the open belie the very notion of sanitation. In the absence of functional public toilets, people are forced to urinate in the open. The BeMC has constructed a considerable number of community toilets across the city and keeps adding to the number every year but many of the toilets remain closed due to lack of maintenance, particularly shortage of water.

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Over 90% villages in Punjab, three other states achieved ODF Plus status: Centre
1 month ago

Over 90% villages in Punjab, three other states achieved ODF Plus status: Centre

Hindustan Times  

Over 90% of villages in Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar have achieved Open Defecation Free Plus status, the Jal Shakti ministry said on Tuesday. Open Defecation Free Plus is an advanced sanitation benchmark under the Swachh Bharat Mission, aimed at sustaining and enhancing the outcomes of ODF status.While the ODF status is achieved when a community eliminates open …

From Open Defecation to ODF Plus: Swachh Bharat Mission's Remarkable Journey Towards Total Cleanliness
1 year, 3 months ago

From Open Defecation to ODF Plus: Swachh Bharat Mission's Remarkable Journey Towards Total Cleanliness

News 18  

The Uttar Pradesh government, during the second phase of the Swachh Bharat Mission, proudly announced that all of its 95,767 villages had attained the ODF Plus status, marking a remarkable 100 per cent success rate for the state. Over 4.43 lakh villages, which is 75 per cent of all Indian villages, have voluntarily proclaimed their ODF Plus status, marking a …

Top-notch ‘aspirational’ toilets to usher in change
1 year, 8 months ago

Top-notch ‘aspirational’ toilets to usher in change

The Hindu  

A quarter of all new public restrooms in Indian cities will soon have high-end features such as luxurious bath cubicles, touchless flushing, breast-feeding rooms, and automatic sanitary napkin incinerators. “A directive has been sent to all State governments to ensure that henceforth 25% of public toilet seats added in any city or urban unit are ‘aspirational toilets’,” sources in the …

Residents of Jharkhand Village Forced to Defecate in Open Despite Having ODF Tag
3 years, 3 months ago

Residents of Jharkhand Village Forced to Defecate in Open Despite Having ODF Tag

News 18  

In October of 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared the ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan’. However, a village in the Garhwa district of Jharkhand was recently found to have been declared ODF despite its people still being forced to defecate outdoors. The local administration accepted the report without checking it, and the village was declared Open Defecation Free. People in this village, …

All Urban Areas in Haryana, Every City in Punjab Open Defecation Free: Govt
4 years, 4 months ago

All Urban Areas in Haryana, Every City in Punjab Open Defecation Free: Govt

News 18  

All urban areas in Haryana have been certified as open defecation free, the Union housing and urban affairs ministry said in a statement on Tuesday. It stated that all cities in Punjab have been certified ODF, while Chandigarh has achieved 100 per cent door-to-door waste collection. Chandigarh is currently processing 91 per cent of the 482 tonnes per day waste …

Hyderabad: Poor feel toilets are for the rich – Unicef expert
5 years ago

Hyderabad: Poor feel toilets are for the rich – Unicef expert

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Behavioural change among people is important for India to achieve the status of being a country free from open defecation, an issue that continues to be a challenge. Now that 10 crore toilets have been additionally built, along with the earlier six crore of them, people must start using them. Hence the effort in rural areas has been to …

India’s toilet stats raise a stink
5 years ago

India’s toilet stats raise a stink

Live Mint  

India’s villages are now officially open defecation free, according to those who were assigned this target: the sanitation department, now subsumed under the Jal Shakti ministry. The 76th NSS round conducted by the National Statistical Organization found that as of September 2018, 28.7% of India’s rural households lacked access to toilets and 32% practised open defecation. In case of the …

Open defecation-free India: National Statistical Office survey debunks Swachh Bharat claims
5 years, 1 month ago

Open defecation-free India: National Statistical Office survey debunks Swachh Bharat claims

The Hindu  

The latest National Statistical Office survey on sanitation debunked the claims of an open defecation-free or ODF India made by the Centre’s flagship Swachh Bharat scheme, although it did record great progress in toilet access and use in rural areas. In Gujarat, which was one of the earliest States declared ODF, back in October 2017, almost a quarter of all …

CSE questions sustainability of Swachh Bharat Mission's public toilet initiative
5 years, 3 months ago

CSE questions sustainability of Swachh Bharat Mission's public toilet initiative

Firstpost  

The group asked how will these toilets be kept functional and waste generated be disposed of efficiently. The Centre for Science and Environment has questioned the sustainability of the government’s Swachh Bharat Mission and raised concerns over the maintenance of the nearly 100 million toilets constructed under the ambitious programme. India has built 100 million toilets in about six lakh …

'India is open defecation free': Experts question govt claim, say scheme is ‘archaic’, people might slip back to their old habit
5 years, 3 months ago

'India is open defecation free': Experts question govt claim, say scheme is ‘archaic’, people might slip back to their old habit

Firstpost  

New Delhi: Experts on Wednesday questioned the government’s claim of the country becoming open defecation free, saying the data used for measuring the success of the scheme is “archaic” and people might be slipping back to their old habit. Speaking at the Swachch Bharat Diwas programme in Ahmedabad, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said rural India and its villages are now …

Over nine crore toilets built, 5.5 lakh villages declared open defecation free since 2014, govt tells Lok Sabha
5 years, 11 months ago

Over nine crore toilets built, 5.5 lakh villages declared open defecation free since 2014, govt tells Lok Sabha

Firstpost  

More than nine crore toilets have been constructed across the country, while over 5 lakh villages have been declared ODF till 5 February this year under the Swachh Bharat Mission-Gramin, govt tells Lok Sabha New Delhi: More than nine crore toilets have been constructed across the country till 5 February this year under the Swachh Bharat Mission-Gramin launched in 2014, …

Swachh Bharat Mission in Bihar stumbling due to govt corruption and slow construction of toilets, say villagers
6 years ago

Swachh Bharat Mission in Bihar stumbling due to govt corruption and slow construction of toilets, say villagers

Firstpost  

Patna: The progress of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s much-hyped programme to make the country open defecation free under Swachh Bharat Mission has been lackadaisical in Bihar, so much so that the evidence is in plentiful supply outside the capital city of Patna. Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi, speaking at an event in Patna recently, said the state would be …

UP to become ODF by October 2, 2019: CM Adityanath
6 years, 3 months ago

UP to become ODF by October 2, 2019: CM Adityanath

India TV News  

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday said that the state would become open defecation free by October 2, 2019, with his government constructed over 1.36 crore toilets in the last 17 months. And since October 2, 2014, to March 2017, only about 25 lakh toilets were built in the state," Yogi said while interacting with Prime Minister Narendra …

67 lakh household toilets in Delhi by 2019-end: Minister
6 years, 4 months ago

67 lakh household toilets in Delhi by 2019-end: Minister

The Quint  

New Delhi, Sep 4 Union Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Tuesday said that Delhi's civic bodies will construct five lakh community and 67 lakh household toilets by the end of 2019. He also said that unlike previous years, 'Swachh Survekshan 2019' will encourage large-scale citizen participation and sustainability of initiatives to make towns and cities garbage-free …

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