Southern Railway introduces voice system to instruct passengers on how to use bio-toilets
Given that public participation is crucial for the successful functioning of train bio-toilets, Southern Railways has installed voice systems which instruct...
Southern Railway introduces voice system to instruct passengers on how to use bio-toilets
Given that public participation is crucial for the successful functioning of train bio-toilets, Southern Railways has installed voice systems which instruct...
Community toilets can come up in forest lands under SBM
As space crunch is cited as a problem for toilet construction, the union ministry of environment and forests has granted approval for the construction of community latrines in...
1.14 lakh villages have been declared open defecation free so far across the country
Rural development ministry’s statistics reveal that the country has 1,14,332 open defecation free (ODF) villages in addition to 50,492 ODF gram...
Himachal Pradesh becomes the second state in the country to be declared open defecation free
After Sikkim, the mountainous state of Himachal Pradesh has achieved the distinction of being open defecation free. The state has...
Bhopal to be ODF ahead of schedule
With the Madhya Pradesh government keen on declaring the entire state open defecation free (ODF) by 2017, officials are confident of declaring the state capital ODF by the end of this year, before the...
In the world’s second most populous country with nearly 355 million menstruating women, 23% of...
One of the stated Millennium Development Goals of the United Nations is to improve access to...
