India and China are alike in one other way – their toilet revolutions have been incomplete

In the rush to become ‘open defecation free’, cities are taking quick fixes that are making matters worse.

Deljana Iossifova, Purva Dewoolkar, Youcao Ren, The Conversation

· Nov 21, 2019 · 08:30 pm

Instead of making hollow claims, the Modi government should learn about sanitation from Bangladesh

Narendra Modi may declare that India is open defecation free, but toilet use has to be driven by community engagement.

Omair Ahmad

· Oct 04, 2019 · 01:30 pm

The Swachh Bharat Mission has built toilets, but failed to get people to use them

In some Northern states, 23% of the households with latrines still defecate in the open, the same as in 2014.

Namitha Sadanand, IndiaSpend.com

· Oct 02, 2019 · 01:30 pm

An eco-friendly dry toilet can change rural sanitation – but Swachh Bharat Mission is ignoring it

Ecosan toilets are cost effective and don’t need water, but Swachh Bharat is focusing on pit toilets.

Manu Moudgil, IndiaSpend.com

· Feb 25, 2019 · 09:30 pm

‘Garbage mounds in Delhi a legacy of six decades, cannot resolve overnight’: Anil Baijal tells SC

The lieutenant governor told the court that work to tackle the garbage disposal problem in the national Capital was under way.

Scroll Staff

· Jul 20, 2018 · 03:56 pm

‘Who is in charge of garbage management?’: SC asks Delhi government to fix accountability

While the Aam Aadmi Party leads the government, all the civic bodies are under the control of the Bharatiya Janata Party.

Scroll Staff

· Jul 10, 2018 · 07:03 pm

Not just Kiran Bedi: Officials in many states have used coercive tactics to battle open defecation

Across India, authorities have threatened to cut off food rations to villagers who don’t have toilets – even though this violates the Right to Food Act.

Soumya Rao

· Apr 29, 2018 · 08:32 pm

27% of tribal population has no access to safe drinking water source, no toilets in 75% tribal homes

In response to a question in the Lok Sabha, the government told Parliament it was making efforts to provide access to toilets under the Swachh Bharat Mission.

Scroll Staff

· Apr 06, 2018 · 12:52 pm

In Mumbai, death of four sanitation workers in a manhole puts illegal contract system under scrutiny

Five contract workers fell nine metres down a manhole while cleaning a sewage line on January 1. Only one survived.

Aarefa Johari

· Jan 07, 2018 · 07:30 am

Campaigns to end open defecation cannot succeed if they try to shame people into using toilets

India’s efforts to end open defecation can learn from the challenges faced by other countries.

Dani J Barrington, The Conversation

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Jamie Bartram, The Conversation

· Dec 16, 2017 · 08:30 pm

Video: This Indian student decided to create a special toilet sign for transgender people

This first-of-a-kind initiative comes from the city of Kolkata

Scroll Staff

· Aug 27, 2017 · 09:00 am

A Haryana village has been named after Donald Trump as part of a campaign against open-defecation

A symbolic ceremony took place before Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the United States.

Scroll Staff

· Jun 24, 2017 · 11:48 am