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This Sarpanch Will Do Anything to Get His Village Folk to Build Toilets. Even...
A Karnataka sarpanch is using a novel approach to persuade village folk in his district not to defecate in the open but build toilets instead. Srinivas Karturi, the sarpanch of the Sriramnagar gram...
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Tech for Toilets: How a Mobile App Is Helping MP Villagers Get Toilets...
This article on using mobile technology for social good is part of the #Connecting4Good series & is made possible by Vodafone India. The government offers subsidies of Rs. 12,000 each to rural...
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13-Year-Old Girl Ends Hunger Strike After Officials Agree to Build Toilets in...
HC Lavanya, a 13-year-old girl studying in Class 8 in Hemadal village of Karnataka’s Chitradurga district, went on a hunger strike on Tuesday morning to demand that the village administration should...
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Meet the Dental Surgeon Who Improved Sanitation and Revived Water Bodies in...
Dr. Avinash Pol, a dental surgeon from Maharashtra, guided the residents of more than 70 villages in the state to help revive water bodies and learn about beneficial government schemes. He also helped...
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IN PHOTOS: A Visit To Delhi’s Toilet Museum Will Leave You Both Informed &...
Sulabh International’s Toilet Museum in Delhi offers a glimpse of the development of sanitation facilities across the world. Bindeshwar Pathak, the founder of Sulabh International, set about trying to...
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An NRI Couple Shows Us How to Return to India and Transform Its Villages
Ashish and Ruta Kalawar left their well-paying jobs in England and returned to India to help empower the rural citizens of the country. Help them make their adopted village open-defecation free!...
View ArticleVIDEO: How A Mobile App Is Helping MP Villagers Get Toilets Constructed
Two organisations in Madhya Pradhesh have developed a mobile app to enable building of toilets in villages. This is how: Transcript: Two organisations – Dhwani and Samarthan, developed an app called...
View ArticleVIDEO: Student Designs a Toilet using Water Cans
A student-designed solution always involves jugaad. And it was jugaad that helped Subik Pandian, a student of Class 8 put two and two together to make a urinal using a water can. Watch the video here:...
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Meet the Women From Rural Odisha Who Are Fighting to End Open Defecation in...
Naranga Pujari has Mission Sanitation on her mind. This Self Help Group leader in Bandaguda village of Odisha’s Koraput district has, for the last few years, been working concertedly to spread...
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TBI Blogs: Tired of Govt Apathy, These UP Villagers Took Matters in Their...
Open defecation continues to be a prevalent issue in many parts of rural India. Community members from a village in an Uttar Pradesh district are coming together to resolve the problem in their own...
View ArticleHere’s Why a Retired ISRO Official Is Helping Senegal Build Low-Cost Toilets
The streets of Senegal in West Africa will be lined with toilets designed by a Bengaluru resident. And it’s all thanks to social media. H Raja Simha, a retired chief engineer from ISRO, has designed...
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This Coimbatore NGO Is Making Toilets More Accessible to the Disabled at the...
Even though crores of commuters travel through trains in India on a daily basis, railway stations for the most part woefully remain inaccessible to those who have movement disabilities. However, one...
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Over 4,000 Toilets in South Delhi’s Restaurants Will Be Open for Public Use...
Starting next month, if you ever find yourself in South Delhi and in dire need to use the restroom, you can walk into any of the region’s many restaurants and use their loos. But you may need to pay...
View ArticleWe All Know We Need More Toilets in the Country. But Can Anybody Say It...
Akshay Kumar wants you to pay attention to the country’s toilets. Or rather, the lack of it to be more specific. The actor, who is known for his philanthropic efforts, has taken to his social media...
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TBI Blogs: How an NGO in Rural Rajasthan Is Encouraging Villagers to Build...
The quest to make India open-defecation-free continues. An organisation is contributing to the drive by offering a unique and sustainable solution in Rajasthan’s villages — EcoSan toilets. Seva Mandir,...
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Dread the Toilets on Indian Trains? They’re All Set to Get a Much-Needed,...
Here’s some increasingly good news for those who love travelling by trains but hate using the loos – the Indian railways is all set to revamp toilets of both air conditioned and non-AC coaches on...
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TBI Blogs: How 13-Year-Olds from Tamil Nadu Designed Low-Cost Toilet Urinals...
At Panchayat Union Middle School, Kurumbapatty, a persistent stench invaded the classrooms every day. Students felt this to be the cause behind the many symptoms of fever, nausea, and stomachache that...
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This 23-Year-Old Makes Bricks out of Industrial Waste & Uses Them to Build...
“What is the meaning of Swachh Bharat? Does it simply mean cleaning roads and not littering? Of course not! In India, tonnes of industrial waste are produced every day and a major portion of this waste...
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This UPSC Aspirant Has Helped Build 70 Toilets in a Remote Village
A post graduate from Faculty of Social Sciences, Delhi University and a UPSC aspirant, Ushma Goswami had always wanted to use her knowledge to help society. She had been studying the various social...
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Meet the Professor Who Has Brought 6,000 Toilets to 34 Villages in Gujarat!
Every once in a while, a story of true heroism and humanity comes along to make us all stop in wonder. This time it involves a university professor from Gujarat, Dr Jyoti Lamba. Dr Jyoti Lamba. Photo...
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A 21-Year-Old in Kolkata Is Helping the Transgender Community Get Separate...
As the ongoing debate on how transgender persons should dress intensifies, a 21- year-old student on the southern outskirts of Kolkata has set out to ensure there are separate public washrooms for the...
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10,000 Toilets and Counting: Bihar’s Women Are Single-Handedly Taking on the...
Poonam, in her mid-40s, is the head of Ujwal Gram Sanghatan, a women’s self-help group (SHG) in Kalanaur village. She is one of the thousands of jeevika didis (livelihood sisters). Nageena, who heads...
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Siachen’s Martyr’s Village Gets 101 Toilets in 12 Hours
A s a part of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, braveheart Lance Naik Hanumanthappa Koppad’s village in Betadur in Kundagol taluk, Karnataka had about 101 toilets built in it over a span of 12 hours on...
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Plastic Bottles to Build Toilets: How One Architect is Solving Two of India’s...
Did you know the Indian cricket team’s jerseys are made from recycled PET bottles? To be precise – 33 bottles make a single outfit, jersey and bottom included. Recycled plastic is a versatile material,...
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Thanks to the Social Justice Department, Kochi May See Transgender-Friendly...
Kerala’s Social Justice Department has proposed to offer funds to set up a separate toilet block at the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) depot in Ernakulam for transgender persons if...
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Railways Cracks Down on ‘Absentee’ Employees; Hopes to Improve Services, Quality
The Indian Railways has decided to strike down heavily on its over 14-lakh employees. To help identify absentee workers, it has issued a circular that makes it mandatory for supervisors heading...
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How a Group of Assamese Women Convinced 371 Homes to Build Their Own Toilets
When Swachh Bharat Campaign was launched in 2014, one of its key objectives was to make the country open defecation free (ODF). Even now, there are many places across India where people continue to...
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This 25-Year-Old Student Is Making Squatting Easy With His Unique Toilet Design!
For those who generally struggle to squat on Indian toilets, one 25-year-old student from MIT School of Design has come to your rescue. Satyajit Mittal has designed what he calls the first ever...
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Solar-Powered & Self-Cleaning, These are The Toilets India Needs!
When nature calls, you have to answer. But finding a clean public restroom in India, irrespective of whether it’s a city or a village is no mean feat. You either end up having an experience horrific...
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This Woman Single-Handedly Freed 2 Villages From Open Defecation!
Did the resilient and robust character of Bhoomi Pednekar as Jaya in the Hindi film ‘Toilet’, who filed for a divorce because of the unavailability of a toilet in her marital home, inspire you? If yes,...
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How Full Length Mirrors Are Helping Keep Chittorgarh Girls in School!
Gone are the days when district collectors and other government officials were inaccessible. Today’s generation of administrators are not only accessible but also media savvy and aware of the work...
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6 Steps to Make a Village Open Defecation Free
The Swachh Bharat Mission was initiated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 2 October 2014, with a resolution to achieve Open Defecation Free (ODF) India by 2 October 2019. The task was not just to...
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Child Actor Turns Real-Life Sanitation Hero, Offers Movie Fee To Build Toilets
You may remember 15-year-old Mallama. She is the same Danapura girl who fasted for three days to convince her family to build a toilet at home. This is the story of a child artist who will portray the...
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6.3 Cr Indian Girls Lack a Private Toilet. One Organisation is Trying to...
Amid numerous social issues in the country, open defecation and the lack of sanitary facilities for urban and rural poor continues to be a persistent evil that does not always receive the attention it...
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This Actress Single-Handedly Transformed a Drought-Hit Maharashtra Village!
Recently India witnessed one of the biggest farmer agitations ever in Mumbai. Farmers walked for 180 kms to demand their rights and make several other demands. Among the demands was a request to waive...
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Dedicated Woman Forest Officer Singlehandedly Built 497 Toilets in Tribal...
Unlike people living in urban, rurban and even rural areas of the country, sensitising isolated tribal communities about the importance and need of proper sanitary facilities can be more or less...
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Rs 0 to Anything: Now Pay Any Amount to Use Western Railways’ Station Toilets
In a one-of-a-kind initiative, the Western Railway has introduced a “Pay as you please” urinal, for suburban railway stations. The plan was implemented last week on Friday, and now, the Andheri,...
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This Pune Man Can Build Portable Toilets out of Recycled Thermocol in Just 2...
What if we said you could take your toilet wherever you go? And that all it would take just two hours to build it? Amused? Don’t be. Because one Swachh Bharat hero from Pune, Maharashtra built such a...
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This 50-YO Visually-Impaired Man Is a Hero of His Village. Here’s Why!
We often take physically challenged people as somehow inferior, though there are unsung heroes around us who defy this myth. These people prove, time and again, that where there is a will, there is a...
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Gun, Gods & Fines: How IAS Officers Ensured Everyone in Gwalior Dist. Has a...
We will take away your guns if you don’t construct toilets. That was the message the Gwalior district administration had sent to villagers of Dhiroli in the infamous Gwalior-Chambal region. And did it...
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UK Man Moves to Bengaluru to Build Low-Cost, Eco-Friendly Homes for The Poor
You can’t survive on fresh air and sunlight, they say. Jamie Waltham, a 37-year-old Englishman is proving them all wrong. In a farm in Honennahalli in Karnataka’s Tumakuru District, which is a...
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How Can Manual Scavenging End in India? The ‘Hope Machine’ Has The Answer!
Even though the Parliament enacted a law prohibiting manual scavenging nearly 25 years ago, this patently illegal practice (and a vile form of caste discrimination) continues to thrive in many cities,...
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Why This Mizoram Town is a Model of Civic Responsibility For The Rest of India
Every Saturday morning, young children, armed with brooms in their hand, walk down the streets of Biate, a town in Mizoram, to sweep their respective localities and in the process, the whole town....
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In Guwahati, Toilets of All Hotels to Be ‘Public’; Will Be Free For Women & Kids
Neena runs a copper utensils stall in Fancy Bazaar, a popular tourist market place in Guwahati, Assam bustling with local and traditional products like Assamese saris, bamboo pickles, tribal jewellery,...
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Made of 9,000 Plastic Bottles, This Toilet Doesn’t Smell Or Require Water to...
On 2 October 2019, while on the way to drop my son to school, I saw three men relieving themselves on the streets. This, when the government has installed public toilets. This is certainly not an...
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This Man’s Vision Made 2.5 Lakh Households Healthier with Low-Cost Water...
We may not realise it, but water as a resource is slowly and steadily becoming elusive. Several states have faced back-to-back droughts, resulting in villages being declared ‘severely...
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Here’s How This NGO Helped Build 10 Lakh Toilets, Produce 543.5 Tonnes of...
“Because we live close to the forest, defecating in the open can be very dangerous for us. There have been so many instances where someone’s been attacked by wild boars or cheetahs when they go out to...
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70-YO Trichy Man Helps Install 1 Lakh Water-Less Toilets, Provides Manure For...
Located about 42 km away from the city of Tiruchirappalli in Tamil Nadu lies the Musiri Panchayat town. Being situated on the banks of the Kaveri river, the abundance of water makes the land fertile...
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This Initiative Pledges to Help 1 Lakh Dropout Girls Rejoin Schools, One...
This article has been sponsored by Hindware. The morning bell rings and students flock into the classrooms to settle in their seats. A moment later, the class teacher enters with a thick register. As...
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Why a Journalist Quit His Job to Turn Old Buses into Public Toilets for Women
In 2018, when Diptendu Roy stepped into a room full of budding entrepreneurs to pitch his business idea, there were chuckles and muffled laughter all around. When he returned to his seat, the...
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