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

Bengaluru failure to declare itself 'open-defecation free' was another reason for its poor performance in the rankings.

This will be a pilot project of the drinking water and sanitation ministry.

As per a report published in 2015, 59.43 per cent of the world population defecating in the open live in India, Minister of State for Drink...

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 Centre will kick off the annual National Rural Sanitation Survey from August 15 to measure the performance of states on three indicator...

Navraj Sandhu said efforts will be made to change the mindset of the people so that they could feel the need to have a toilet in their hous...

Continuing with the Swachh Bharat drive, Union Urban Development Ministry has taken initiative to install 1000 toilets in the market places.

These achievers will be special invitees at Republic Day celebrations in 2016 and will get to meet PM Modi, officials said.

The Union Government, which is running a high voltage campaign to free the country from open defecation, has now given a uniform definition...

A nationwide "realtime monitoring" system of toilets constructed under Swachh Bharat Abhiyan will be launched tomorrow, government today sa...

"There is an immediate need to provide adequate number of toilets separately for boys and girls in all schools of the country," says govt

Modi's dream project of creating a ‘Swach Bharat' by 2019 is a distant dream, say govt officials who have been working to create road map f...

'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.

Jairam Ramesh today offered that his Ministry would bear half the cost of retrofitting eco-friendly bio-toilets in all 50000 coaches in fiv...

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