Around 1.35 crore households in rural Bengal have been covered by the 'Mission Nirmal Bangla', which aimed at making all villages open defe...

The home minister said for cleanliness, the central government was implementing a Rs 12,000-crore action plan through 76 ministries and dep...

Stating that the state is rich but the people are poor, the chief minister said that the government was making efforts to develop basic ame...

While for rural areas the next challenge is to deal with the liquid waste generated, the situation across cities and towns seems to be gett...

MP Congress Committee Chief Arun Yadav said,"nobody is against the construction of toilets. But, the questions raised by Rastogi are releva...

Modi said since the government launched the Swachh Bharat Mission in October 2014, over 1,80,000 villages across 130 districts have been de...

There are three ODF states, 101 such districts and 1,67,226 such villages in the country.

The 50-year-old actor will extend support to BMC in keeping the megapolis clean, in tune with the Centre's Swachh Bharat campaign.

So far, 61 districts and more than 1,14,332 villages have been declared Open Defecation Free

A total of 141 towns in 7 states have claimed to have become Open Defecation Free including 100 in Maharashtra. These claims are under veri...

The toilets are being constructed across the state, including in individual houses, located at critically challenged and hilly terrains, as...

The village was declared open defecation free under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's flagship Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) last year .

"Against the initial plan of having 18,198 personal toilets, 20,555 have already been constructed in the city," Patel said.

The SAD-BJP government aims to equip all houses of Punjab with toilets by October 2017 and make it the first 'open defecation free' state i...

Ramesh said it was indeed a formidable challenge to make India open defecation free by October 2, 2019, the 150 birth anniversary of Gandhi.

'India won't progress by making it Congress-free but it will progress a lot if we get rid of open defecation," Jairam Ramesh said.

Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh today said India has embarked on a ten-year mission to make India an open-defecation free co...