The Centre's flagship programme "Swachh Bharat Abhiyan" is not new and it has been going on in West Bengal for the last 2-3 years, accordin...

Mamata Banerjee today said her state had already launched it's own cleanliness campaign before Narendra Modi's 'Swachh Bharat Abhiyan'.

Karnataka government's 'Suvarna Gramodaya Yojana' was a "failure" as the overall development of each village was not achieved, the CAG has ...

Govt has set a target of constructing 12 cr toilets, of which 11.11 cr are to be built in rural India as household latrines, school toilets...

Accusing NDA govt of "hijacking" several of the UPA dispensation's schemes, he says it has done such "political branding and repackaging."

With less than two months left for the fiscal year to close, the government is likely to miss this year’s target of constructing 1.2 crore ...

The Cabinet also approved a proposal to launch Swachh Bharat Mission (rural) in place of Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan.

Government will spend over Rs 2,100 crore to build toilets and sewage treatment plants in 1,649 identified villages situated along both sid...

"Under the current regime, it is being repackaged and projected as Swachh Bharat Abihyan. Well a rose is a rose by whatever name you call i...

TSC was launched by the Union Ministry of Rural Development in 1999 for sustainable reforms in the rural sector through a time bound campai...

Report of the CAG, tabled before the Gujarat Assembly, notes that more than 5,000 Anganwadi centers in the state did not have toilets.

The rural development ministry will provide Rs 20 lakh to each village per year for the next five years under the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan.

Former Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh today said the programme also needs to address the issue of open defecation.

Chidambaram said NDA govt placed new restrictions like disqualifying physically challenged persons & old pensioners from being employed und...

Gadkari today targeted initiative taken by Ramesh, saying a convergence between MNREGA and toilet construction programme did not work well.

His letter comes days after PM urged the parliamentarians to use MPLADS funds in building toilets to end the menace of open defecation in t...

The decision to this effect was taken at a meeting chaired by Minister Tanga Byaling, official sources said today.