Swachh Bharat two-and-a-half years on: Narendra Modi government's claims remain unverified
7 years, 10 months ago

Swachh Bharat two-and-a-half years on: Narendra Modi government's claims remain unverified

Firstpost  

Although Swachh Bharat Abhiyan has sent India on a toilet construction spree, 51.6 percent of households across the country did not use an improved sanitation facility – a system that separates human excreta from human contact–between January 2015 and December 2016. Swagata Yadavar Although Swachh Bharat Abhiyan has sent India on a toilet construction spree, 51.6 percent of households across the country did not use an improved sanitation facility – a system that separates human excreta from human contact–between January 2015 and December 2016. Source: Ministry of Drinking Water & Sanitation ; Data accessed on May 22, 2017 Latrine built is not equal to latrine used As of 2016, 36.7 percent of rural households and 70.3 percent of urban households–48.4 percent of households overall–used improved sanitation facility, data from the National Family Health Survey four, which was conducted between January 2015 and December 2016, show. The focus of Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban is slowly shifting from construction of toilets to solid waste management, the Accountability Initiative’s January 2017 analysis of the programme’s budget noted.

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Send Swachh Survekshan Feedback by March 31
1 week, 5 days ago

Send Swachh Survekshan Feedback by March 31

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: As a survey by the Central government to rank the cleanest and the dirtiest cities in India is underway, people can participate in it by visiting https://sbmurban.org/feedback and send their feedback. The ULBs should regularly update their monthly Management Information System, which will be validated through citizen feedback before final rankings are determined by third-party assessors. The cities are …

Swachh Bharat Mission: Creating jobs, transforming lives
5 months, 4 weeks ago

Swachh Bharat Mission: Creating jobs, transforming lives

Hindustan Times  

In 2014, India took a collective pledge to ensure cleanliness, health, and hygiene for all its citizens through the Swachh Bharat Mission. By promoting sustainable waste management practices, the mission has empowered communities, improved public health, and sparked a cultural shift towards hygiene. Swachh Bharat Mission {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} While the impact of SBM on public health has been …

Building on the gains of Swachh Bharat Mission
6 months, 1 week ago

Building on the gains of Swachh Bharat Mission

Hindustan Times  

Swachh Bharat Mission is set to complete 10 years. But now the Mission faces the more slippery world of solid and liquid waste management, compared to the provision of low flush, twin-pit toilets across needy communities. Only 248 of the cities have broadly reached the parameters of Garbage Free Cities covering aspects of collection, segregation, storage, scientific processing, cleaning of …

Swachh survey: Be ready for assessment, Odisha govt tells ULBs
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Swachh survey: Be ready for assessment, Odisha govt tells ULBs

New Indian Express  

BHUBANESWAR: The state government has asked all its urban local bodies to remain prepared for Swachh Survekshan 2024 field assessment of the progress they have made in cleanliness and other parameters. Officials in Housing and Urban Development department said as per the direction of the national mission director of Swachh Bharat Mission Roopa Mishra, the state mission director, municipal commissioners …

In Surat’s turnaround in sanitation, a story of hope
1 year, 1 month ago

In Surat’s turnaround in sanitation, a story of hope

Hindustan Times  

The ascendance of Surat as the cleanest city in India, announced last month, has multiple narratives. First, it makes the chaotic task of city sanitation an achievable goal for India’s 5,000 urban local bodies. The cleanest city tag is no longer the exclusive preserve of Indore, which lifted the crown with predictable regularity soon after Swachh Survekshan was instituted by …

Swachh Bharat Mission: Local bodies minister seeks report on utilisation of funds in Ludhiana
1 year, 2 months ago

Swachh Bharat Mission: Local bodies minister seeks report on utilisation of funds in Ludhiana

Hindustan Times  

In the backdrop of Ludhiana city’s poor ranking in the Swachh Survekshan awards 2023, local bodies minister Balkar Singh has instructed the municipal corporation commissioner and additional deputy commissioner to provide a detailed report on the allocation and utilisation of funds under the Swachh Bharat Mission and other associated schemes for development of the city. The directive mentions a comprehensive …

2023 Swachh Survekshan: Mohali bounces back strongly; leaps 31 spots to secure 82nd position
1 year, 2 months ago

2023 Swachh Survekshan: Mohali bounces back strongly; leaps 31 spots to secure 82nd position

Hindustan Times  

Having dropped to the 113th rank last year, Mohali made a strong comeback by climbing 31 spots to secure the 82nd position among 446 cities with a population over 1 lakh in the 2023 Swachh Survekshan rankings. Mohali senior deputy mayor Amrik Singh Somal, along with the MC commissioner Navjot Kaur, joint commissioner Kiran Sharma and assistant commissioner Manpreet Singh, …

Indore again named as ‘cleanest city’ in India for seventh time in a row. Check full list
1 year, 2 months ago

Indore again named as ‘cleanest city’ in India for seventh time in a row. Check full list

Hindustan Times  

Indore and Surat were jointly declared the cleanest cities in India in the Swachh Survekshan Awards-2023, presented by President Droupadi Murmu at the Bharat Mandapam on Thursday. For the eighth edition of the survey, 3,000 assessors fanned out across 4,500 cities to record a city’s performance on 46 parameters, including waste collection, inclusive toilets and improved plastic waste management. Launching …

Soil from landfills to build highways
1 year, 2 months ago

Soil from landfills to build highways

Live Mint  

New Delhi: The government will soon come out with policy guidelines mandating the use of urban solid waste in all highway projects across the country. The plan aims to reduce the use of soil from agricultural land for building embankments for highways, as well as provide a viable outlet for millions of tonnes of solid waste from landfills. According to …

Embracing Incremental Steps for Monumental Sanitation Reforms
1 year, 4 months ago

Embracing Incremental Steps for Monumental Sanitation Reforms

News 18  

To understand the role of sanitation on our behavior and lives, it is pertinent to know about the broken window theory. The Bharat story, it’s tryst with building a movement around sanitation through Swachh Bharat Abhiyan stems out as a tale of triumph in the war field of mind and habits. The Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, initiated by our Honorable Prime …

From Open Defecation to ODF Plus: Swachh Bharat Mission's Remarkable Journey Towards Total Cleanliness
1 year, 5 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 …

42% Urban Indians Believe Availability of Public Toilets Has Improved: Survey - News18
1 year, 5 months ago

42% Urban Indians Believe Availability of Public Toilets Has Improved: Survey - News18

News 18  

As India marks nine years of Swachh Bharat Mission today, 42% urban citizens believe that availability of public toilets has improved since the start of the campaign, according to a LocalCircles survey. ‘30% URBAN INDIANS SEE SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENT’ The survey sought to know from citizens: ‘How has the availability of functional public toilets in your district/ city improved in the …

Watch: Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli's ‘Swachhata Hi Sewa’ message ahead of Gandhi Jayanti
1 year, 5 months ago

Watch: Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli's ‘Swachhata Hi Sewa’ message ahead of Gandhi Jayanti

Hindustan Times  

Following Prime Minister Narendra Modi's call for 'Ek Tareekh, Ek Ghanta, Ek Saath' campaign for cleanliness, as many as five Indian cricketers, including Team India captain Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli, will participate in a cleanliness drive on Saturday part of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. Team India captain Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli in a cleanliness drive video message. In …

Swachh Bharat: From date, significance to PM Modi’s call for ‘Clean India’
1 year, 5 months ago

Swachh Bharat: From date, significance to PM Modi’s call for ‘Clean India’

Live Mint  

The Swachh Bharat Mission was launched on October 2 on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti that commemorates birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi also known as Mahatma, Bapu or Father of the Nation. History The Swachh Bharat Mission was launched on October 2 in the year 2014 by the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi. In 2021, PM Modi introduced the …

Top-notch ‘aspirational’ toilets to usher in change
1 year, 11 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 …

Swachh Bharat Mission: CAG points out irregularities in scheme in J&K
1 year, 11 months ago

Swachh Bharat Mission: CAG points out irregularities in scheme in J&K

Hindustan Times  

CAG report has pointed out massive irregularities in the urban housing department, municipal corporations of Srinagar and Jammu and the municipal councils and committees in the Swachh Bharat Mission scheme launched by the Centre in 2014. The CAG report said that non-conducting of survey for identification of beneficiaries had resulted in wasteful expenditure of ₹ 1.09 crore. The flagship scheme …

Data | Another government survey debunks Swachh Bharat’s 100% ODF claim, count increases to four
2 years ago

Data | Another government survey debunks Swachh Bharat’s 100% ODF claim, count increases to four

The Hindu  

Yet another recently released government survey has called into question the Central government’s claim in 2019 that all Indian villages are open defecation-free. For instance, according to data from the Swachh Bharat Mission, Gramin portal, villages in Madhya Pradesh and Tamil Nadu were declared 100% ODF by October 2018. However, according to NSO data, only 71% and 62.8% of rural …

Climbing up the Swachh ladder
2 years, 5 months ago

Climbing up the Swachh ladder

Hindustan Times  

The Swachh Bharat Survekshan began small in 2016 as a pilot project in 73 cities. The 2022 crown was won by Madhya Pradesh’s Indore for the sixth consecutive year; Gujrat’s Surat is at number 2; and Navi Mumbai in Maharashtra is third. The central Indian town’s back-to-back victories are a testimony to the vision of the Indore Municipal Corporation, its …

Swachh Bharat or Modi@72: The Prime Minister for Cleanliness on World Cleanup Day
2 years, 6 months ago

Swachh Bharat or Modi@72: The Prime Minister for Cleanliness on World Cleanup Day

Firstpost  

World Cleanup Day is an annual global social action campaign aimed at tackling the global solid waste problem, which even includes marine debris. On 15 September, 2018, more than 17.6 million individuals in 157 countries celebrated; on 21 September, 2019, more than 21.2 million people from 180 countries will participate in World Cleanup Day; on 19 September, 2020, more than …

Allow the private sector into waste management
2 years, 7 months ago

Allow the private sector into waste management

Hindustan Times  

When Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a historic appeal for Swachh Bharat on August 15, 2014, he brought into sharp focus waste and waste management as never before. This belies the premise of Swachh Bharat, with no apparent learning and no interest in adopting advanced technological solutions to treat waste. The investment in the construction and operation of a sanitary …

Sivaganga: Eight ex-BDOs booked for siphoning off toilet funds under Swacch Bharat Mission
2 years, 9 months ago

Sivaganga: Eight ex-BDOs booked for siphoning off toilet funds under Swacch Bharat Mission

New Indian Express  

SIVAGANGA: The Vigilance and Anti Corruption Department booked a case against eight former BDOs of Maravamangalam panchayat and panchayat secretary for alleged misappropriation of Swachh Bharat Mission funds in the pretext of constructing free toilets for the public between 2016 and 2019. According to officials, the eight former BDOs -- Soma Selvaraj, R Ramesh, R Amalorpavam, A Chandra, S Nasira …

Mohan Guruswamy | What has led to failure of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan?
3 years, 1 month ago

Mohan Guruswamy | What has led to failure of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan?

Deccan Chronicle  

Visiting the Banaras Hindu University on February 4, 1916, Mahatma Gandhi in his address said: “I visited the Vishvanath temple last evening. He also hoped to build 100 smart cities with 24x7 drinking water, zero garbage disposal and total solid waste management with full-scale drainage and sewage systems. Projecting that, a hundred new cities with an average of a million …

Decoding India's 100% ODF Status
3 years, 2 months ago

Decoding India's 100% ODF Status

News 18  

The Central government has recently rolled out Swachh Bharat Mission 2 after an unprecedented success of the first phase. In the first phase of Swachh Bharat Mission over 11 crore toilets were built in rural India in five years from 2014-2019. Today when the country has been declared free from open defecation, challenges like non-functioning toilets, inadequate drainage and sewerage …

Chandigarh gets thumbs down in Swachh Survekshan 2021
3 years, 4 months ago

Chandigarh gets thumbs down in Swachh Survekshan 2021

Hindustan Times  

A dysfunctional waste processing plant, slow progress in legacy mining and segregation at source still to be fully achieved — all these factors pushed the City Beautiful further down the Swachh Survekshan rankings. Overall, Chandigarh stands at 66th position out of 4,320 cities that were covered in various categories under Swachh Survekshan 2021. Chandigarh gets thumbs down in Swachh Survekshan …

Swachh Bharat second phase launched; flagship scheme aims to make cities free of garbage, ensure safe water
3 years, 5 months ago

Swachh Bharat second phase launched; flagship scheme aims to make cities free of garbage, ensure safe water

Firstpost  

Under the new phase, it will be ensured that no untreated drain waste is discharged into any river of the country, Modi said after launching SBM-U 2.0 and AMRUT 2.0 at the Ambedkar International Centre in Delhi New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday launched the second phase of the Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban and the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation …

PM Modi Launches Second Phase Of Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban & AMRUT | Key Points
3 years, 5 months ago

PM Modi Launches Second Phase Of Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban & AMRUT | Key Points

ABP News  

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the second phase of the Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban and Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation via virtual conference on Friday. PM Modi further said that this 2nd phase of Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban 2.0 & AMRUT 2.0 is also an important step in fulfilling the dreams of BR Ambedkar. Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban 2.0 …

PM Modi to launch Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban 2.0 and AMRUT 2.0 today
3 years, 5 months ago

PM Modi to launch Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban 2.0 and AMRUT 2.0 today

India TV News  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban 2.0 and Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation 2.0 at 11 AM, tomorrow at Dr. Ambedkar International Centre in New Delhi. In line with the vision of the Prime Minister, SBM-U 2.0 and AMRUT 2.0 have been designed to realize the aspiration to make all our cities ‘Garbage Free’ and …

Indore, India's cleanest city is now country's first 'water plus' city
3 years, 7 months ago

Indore, India's cleanest city is now country's first 'water plus' city

India TV News  

Indore, the country's cleanest city, has now been declared the first "water plus" city of India under the Swachh Survekshan 2021, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said. Informing about the work done to achieve this tag, Indore district collector Manish Singh said, "According to the guidelines of Water Plus Protocol of Swachh Survekshan, 1,746 public and 5,624 domestic …

Data | Three government surveys debunk Swachh Bharat's 100% ODF claim
4 years, 3 months ago

Data | Three government surveys debunk Swachh Bharat's 100% ODF claim

The Hindu  

What is the share of the rural population in India that is not defecating in the open? The National Annual Rural Sanitation Survey The second comparison is between the SBM data on individual household latrine coverage as of March 2019 and the National Annual Rural Sanitation Survey data on rural households with access to their own toilets between Nov. 2019 …

Swachh Bharat Mission 2.0 to focus on waste management
4 years, 7 months ago

Swachh Bharat Mission 2.0 to focus on waste management

Live Mint  

NEW DELHI: The Union government is working on a second phase of their flagship Swachh Bharat Mission. The Swachh Bharat Mission was announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2014 to make the country garbage and open defecation free. According to the government, since the launch of the scheme 62.09 lakh individual household toilets, 5.94 lakh community toilets have been …

Swachh Survekshan 2020: Full rankings, check here to see if your city is on the list
4 years, 7 months ago

Swachh Survekshan 2020: Full rankings, check here to see if your city is on the list

India Today  

The results of the fifth edition of the nationwide annual cleanliness survey, 'Swachh Survekshan 2020,' are out and Madhya Pradesh's Indore has yet again made it as India's cleanest city. While Indore has been named as India’s cleanest city for the fourth time in a row, Gujarat's Surat emerged as India’s second cleanest city, followed by Navi Mumbai which bagged …

50K toilets built in J&K under Swachh Bharat Mission: Govt
5 years, 3 months ago

50K toilets built in J&K under Swachh Bharat Mission: Govt

The Quint  

New Delhi, Dec 4 The Central government has built 45,932 individual and 3,069 community toilets in Jammu and Kashmir under various schemes, said the Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry on Wednesday stressing that 1.17 lakh new sewer connections were also constructed. In a reply to a query in Rajya Sabha, the Centre said it has launched missions and schemes namely, …

CSE questions sustainability of Swachh Bharat Mission's public toilet initiative
5 years, 5 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 …

Opinion | Aaj Ki Baat October 2 episode: Modi fulfills one big promise, an open defecation free India
5 years, 5 months ago

Opinion | Aaj Ki Baat October 2 episode: Modi fulfills one big promise, an open defecation free India

India TV News  

More than five years ago, on August 15, 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his first address to the nation from the ramparts of historic Red Fort, vowed to fulfill Mahatma Gandhi's dream of a clean India on his 150th birth anniversary in 2019. October 2 this year was, in a sense, a day of celebration for Indian womanhood, as …

Tamil Nadu 100 per cent free of open defecation, reveals data
5 years, 5 months ago

Tamil Nadu 100 per cent free of open defecation, reveals data

India TV News  

Tamil Nadu has achieved 100 per cent Open Defecation Free status as per data uploaded on the Swachh Bharat Mission website. According to the data, a total of 53,46,613 toilets have been built in the state since after the announcement, an increase of 51.65 per cent in the number of households with toilets. The objectives of the Mission are elimination …

PM Modi continues 'swachhta abhiyan' outside India | Watch
5 years, 6 months ago

PM Modi continues 'swachhta abhiyan' outside India | Watch

India TV News  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi keeps an eye for cleanliness even outside India, showing to the world that he practises what he preaches. On his arrival at the George Bush Intercontinental airport here on Saturday for the "Howdy, Modi" community event, the prime minister was presented with a bouquet of flowers by an American dignitary, receiving him along with US Ambassador …

How Swachh Bharat Mission helped millions live with dignity
5 years, 6 months ago

How Swachh Bharat Mission helped millions live with dignity

India TV News  

Launched five years ago, the Swachh Bharat Mission announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi is on the verge making India a completely open defecation free, enabling people to embrace change and live their lives with dignity. When Modi visits the US later in September, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will honour the success of Swachh Bharat Mission that has …

How Swachh Bharat Mission helped millions live with dignity
5 years, 6 months ago

How Swachh Bharat Mission helped millions live with dignity

The Quint  

New Delhi, Sep 15 Launched five years ago, the Swachh Bharat Mission announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi is on the verge making India a completely open defecation free, enabling people to embrace change and live their lives with dignity. When Modi visits the US later in September, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will honour the success of Swachh …

10 crore toilets built under Swachh Bharat Mission: President Ram Nath Kovind
5 years, 6 months ago

10 crore toilets built under Swachh Bharat Mission: President Ram Nath Kovind

India TV News  

Around 10 crore toilets have been built under the Swachh Bharat Mission, and with this there has been a change in the attitude of 55 crore people who have ceased the practise of defecating in open, President Ram Nath Kovind said on Friday. Recalling the Mahatma Gandhi International Sanitation Convention held in 2018, he said several countries want to learn …

Over lakh in Bihar await reimbursement for building toilets
5 years, 8 months ago

Over lakh in Bihar await reimbursement for building toilets

India TV News  

As many as 1.87 lakh families in rural Patna are still awaiting to get the reimbursement promised under the Swachh Bharat Mission-Gramin scheme for constructing toilets in their houses. Poverty-stricken Dinanath Rai and Surajdeo Mahto constructed toilets in their house last year at their own cost but are yet to get back the money they spent. Sanjay Kumar, District Nodal …

Nearing completion Swachh Bharat Mission sees cut in allocation: Official
5 years, 8 months ago

Nearing completion Swachh Bharat Mission sees cut in allocation: Official

India TV News  

Governments much publicised Swachh Bharat Mission aims to enhance the level of sanitation in India and make the country open defecation free seems to be on its way out making way as other important schemes on solid waste management and drinking water is expected to get higher funding. Swachh Bharat Mission which was an election plank in 2014-15 as a …

Union Budget 2019-20: No specific funds for Narendra Modi’s pet rural water supply scheme
5 years, 8 months ago

Union Budget 2019-20: No specific funds for Narendra Modi’s pet rural water supply scheme

The Hindu  

To fulfil Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s promise of piped water supply to all rural households by 2024, the new Jal Jeevan Mission — which has no budget allocation of its own — will need to converge with other Central and State government schemes, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said. The budget for the National Rural Drinking Water Mission, a key component …

Budget 2019:
5 years, 8 months ago

Budget 2019:

ABP News  

New Delhi: Housing for all by the year 2022, and ‘Har Ghar Jal’ by the year 2024 remained the major highlights of Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s maiden budget speech on Friday. A major step in this direction has been the constitution of Jal Shakti Ministry.” “This new Ministry will look at the management of our water resources and water supply …

'Swachh Bharat' needs to become 'Sundar Bharat': Economic Survey
5 years, 8 months ago

'Swachh Bharat' needs to become 'Sundar Bharat': Economic Survey

The Quint  

New Delhi, July 4 Swachh Bharat Abhiyan - one of the flagship schemes of the Modi government - has been a great success and will take the country towards a 'Sundar' Bharat, according to the Economic Survey. "Going forward, the Swachh Bharat mission needs to incorporate environmental and water management issues for sustainable improvements in the long term," said the …

Economic Survey 2018-19: Private funds needed for Swachh Bharat
5 years, 8 months ago

Economic Survey 2018-19: Private funds needed for Swachh Bharat

The Hindu  

With the Centre claiming that 99.2% of rural India is now open defecation free, the next big goal on the Swachh Bharat journey is the 100% safe and scientific disposal of solid and liquid waste, according to the Economic Survey 2018-19. However, it emphasises that the large resources needed to reach this milestone will need to be met through crowd …

Economic Survey: Many states became open defecation free since launch of Swachh Bharat
5 years, 8 months ago

Economic Survey: Many states became open defecation free since launch of Swachh Bharat

The Hindu  

Many states have achieved 100% open defecation free status and individual household latrine coverage since the launch of Swachh Bharat Mission, one of the largest cleanliness drives in the world, the Economic Survey 2018-19 said Thursday. The survey document, tabled in Parliament, said since the launch of the flagship programme in October 2014, over 9.5 crore toilets have been built …

'PPP model of urban waste management needs $5 bn/year'
5 years, 11 months ago

'PPP model of urban waste management needs $5 bn/year'

The Quint  

New Delhi, April 21 The implementation of municipal solid waste management through the Public-Private Partnership model in Indian cities will require the investment of $5 billion per year, a joint report by industry chamber Assocham and British advisory multinational Ernst & Young said on Sunday. The study titled, "The big 'W' impact: effective urban waste management solutions in India" suggested …

Swachh Bharat Mission forced Ladakh to face hard truths about waste management, find traditional solutions
6 years ago

Swachh Bharat Mission forced Ladakh to face hard truths about waste management, find traditional solutions

Firstpost  

Mismanagement rather than declining water resources is the main reason for the water crisis in Ladakh’s Leh town. “Locals have problems with using flush water toilets since they are used to the traditional dry compost toilets,” said Urgain Dolker, a local Ladakhi. Leh’s district panchayat officer Zakir Hussain said dry compost toilets were included in the Swachh Bharat programme as …

93% of rural households now have access to toilets, over 9 crore toilets built under Swachh Bharat Mission
6 years ago

93% of rural households now have access to toilets, over 9 crore toilets built under Swachh Bharat Mission

Op India  

Under the NDA government’s flagship scheme the ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’, over 93 percent of rural households in India now have access to toilets out of which around 96.5 percent households have used the facility. A national survey, conducted by an Independent Agency under the World Bank support to #SwachBharatMission, has found that 93.4% of households in rural India who have …

Thiruvananthapuram: Swachh city' from April
6 years, 1 month ago

Thiruvananthapuram: Swachh city' from April

Deccan Chronicle  

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The ambitious decentralised waste management is all set to get more thrust in the state capital with the city corporation gearing up to implement its Swachh Bharat initiative, which aims at strengthening and modernising the existing decentralised waste management initiative of the civic body. The main objective of the initiative is to make finished products from municipal waste including …

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