Construction Of Toilets

The Swachh Bharat Mission, a national cleanliness programme, launched in 2014 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, may have reduced infant mortality through the construction of toilets and improved sanitation.

Constructing toilets under the Swachh Bharat Mission - India's national cleanliness programme - may have helped avert roughly 60,000-70,000 infant deaths every year, according to a study.

Steps taken by the government like construction of separate toilets for girls in schools and a scheme related to sanitary pads have led to a sharp decline in dropout rate of girls, President Droupadi Murmu said on Tuesday.

A PIL in the Delhi High Court on Monday sought direction to authorities to construct separate washrooms for the third gender on the ground that the absence of separate public toilets for transgenders make them prone to sexual assault and harassment.

PM Modi Saudi Arabia: Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday said that he is not from a "political family" but carries a very humble background and selling tea on the railway platform was a part of his life journey. He said that constructing toilets and opening bank accounts have empowered the poor in India and have given them a se...

Tara Bai, the sister of Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Bala Bachchan, has been accused of misappropriating public funds meant for constructing toilets, among other projects.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday called upon people, especially women in rural areas, to ensure that the crores of toilets constructed in the past over four years are used so that open defecation is curbed completely.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said that 90 per cent of Indians have toilet facility at their homes now as his government had got 8.3 crore toilets constructed since 2014 to make the country free of open defecation.

It is a race against time at Udhampur, in a remote corner of Jammu and Kashmir, where 1000 toilets are being built across 60 panchayats, under the Swachh Bharat Mission. Ravindra Kumar, the District Development Commissioner engaged in the construction activities and reached out to others to volunteer.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be voted back to power in the 2019 general elections, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has said emphasising that the Indian leader is addressing basic problems of the common man through flagship schemes of constructing toilets, providing bank accounts and gas connections.

Sending out a strong message against open defecation, salaries of around 600 government employees in Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir were stopped for not constructing toilets at their houses, an official said today.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis today declared rural areas of the state open defecation-free and claimed the state has constructed the highest number of toilets in the country.

Days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's claim of Bihar constructing 8.5 lakh toilets in a week created widespread disbelief, the Union Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation on Thursday shared its own calculation showing how it was "easily doable".

Not a single toilet was constructed in the national capital since the inception of the Swachh Bharat Mission two-and-half years ago, with funds to the tune of Rs 40.31 crore for this purpose lying 'idle', the CAG said today.

Setting a rare example that has drawn applause, an underprivileged woman in Bihar collected money through begging for the construction of a toilet at her home, an official said on Monday. Amina Khatoon, a resident of Pathra Uttar village under Pipra block of Supaul district in flood-prone Koshi region, begged in the neighbouring villages to collect...

The Swachh Bharat Mission, a national cleanliness programme, launched in 2014 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, may have reduced infant mortality through the construction of toilets and improved sanitation.

Constructing toilets under the Swachh Bharat Mission - India's national cleanliness programme - may have helped avert roughly 60,000-70,000 infant deaths every year, according to a study.

Steps taken by the government like construction of separate toilets for girls in schools and a scheme related to sanitary pads have led to a sharp decline in dropout rate of girls, President Droupadi Murmu said on Tuesday.

A PIL in the Delhi High Court on Monday sought direction to authorities to construct separate washrooms for the third gender on the ground that the absence of separate public toilets for transgenders make them prone to sexual assault and harassment.

PM Modi Saudi Arabia: Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday said that he is not from a "political family" but carries a very humble background and selling tea on the railway platform was a part of his life journey. He said that constructing toilets and opening bank accounts have empowered the poor in India and have given them a se...

Tara Bai, the sister of Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Bala Bachchan, has been accused of misappropriating public funds meant for constructing toilets, among other projects.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday called upon people, especially women in rural areas, to ensure that the crores of toilets constructed in the past over four years are used so that open defecation is curbed completely.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said that 90 per cent of Indians have toilet facility at their homes now as his government had got 8.3 crore toilets constructed since 2014 to make the country free of open defecation.

It is a race against time at Udhampur, in a remote corner of Jammu and Kashmir, where 1000 toilets are being built across 60 panchayats, under the Swachh Bharat Mission. Ravindra Kumar, the District Development Commissioner engaged in the construction activities and reached out to others to volunteer.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be voted back to power in the 2019 general elections, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has said emphasising that the Indian leader is addressing basic problems of the common man through flagship schemes of constructing toilets, providing bank accounts and gas connections.

Sending out a strong message against open defecation, salaries of around 600 government employees in Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir were stopped for not constructing toilets at their houses, an official said today.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis today declared rural areas of the state open defecation-free and claimed the state has constructed the highest number of toilets in the country.

Days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's claim of Bihar constructing 8.5 lakh toilets in a week created widespread disbelief, the Union Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation on Thursday shared its own calculation showing how it was "easily doable".

Not a single toilet was constructed in the national capital since the inception of the Swachh Bharat Mission two-and-half years ago, with funds to the tune of Rs 40.31 crore for this purpose lying 'idle', the CAG said today.

Setting a rare example that has drawn applause, an underprivileged woman in Bihar collected money through begging for the construction of a toilet at her home, an official said on Monday. Amina Khatoon, a resident of Pathra Uttar village under Pipra block of Supaul district in flood-prone Koshi region, begged in the neighbouring villages to collect...