The government plans to expand the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan efforts on its 10th anniversary. Focus areas include providing toilets for all, ac...

The ministry said over the last eight years, the Swachh Bharat Mission has revolutionised sanitation in urban India by building nearly 70 l...

Providing clean air, water, hygiene and environment have to be the top priorities for good governance, the bench said, adding that the stat...

New Delhi [India], September 23 (ANI) The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has imposed an environmental compensation of over Rs 2,000 crore on...

The bench of Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel while passing the direction said that award of above compensation had become necessary under section...

Union Jal Shakti ministry Gajendra Singh Shekhawat said for 2021-22, as part of the approved Annual Implementation Plan, Swachh Bharat Miss...

"The Ministry of Jal Shakti under Swachh Bharat Mission Grameen (SBM-G) Phase 2 is poised to support over two lakh villages achieve solid a...

In her Budget speech on Monday, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman dubbed the initiative 'Urban Swachh Bharat Mission 2.0'.

The first phase involved construction of individual household toilets and community toilets to make cities open defecation free (ODF) and i...

"Government acknowledges the private sector as a key stakeholder in this sector. Private sector is brimming with entrepreneurial activities...

The bill proposes to make the law banning manual scavenging more stringent by increasing the imprisonment term and the fine amount, the off...

Villages where people still defecate in open face nearly 13 times higher risk of faecal contamination of ground water as compared to open d...

Ahead of the polls, ASCI has come out with several suggestions under 'Right to Safe Sanitation for All and At All Times'.

Apart from the need for holistic approach encompassing faecal sludge management, water supply needs to be integrated with the Swachh Bharat...

Over four lakh individual household toilets have been constructed in urban India since SBM was launched.

"New technology and knowledge-sharing are essential to ensure that urban communities learn from each other and come up with solutions that ...

The Joint Monitoring Programme, assessing the water and sanitation status globally, reveals that about fifty percent of open defecators of ...