TAG: Swachh Bharat

Swachh Bharat turns 10: How the cleanliness drive has changed India and the road ahead

Swachh Bharat has turned 10. The success of the flagship clean India mission can be gauged from the fact that all Indian villages have turned free of open defecation from a meagre 37 percent when it was launched in 2014.A recent study published in scienti...

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Swachh Bharat Mission is not just about sanitation, but also a pathway to empowerment

India was declared Open Defecation Free on October 2, 2019, on the 150th birth anniversary of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, as had been envisaged at the time of the scheme’s launch in 2014. But excrement continued to happen, that is, in the open. So, the Sw...

2 weeks ago