Close to the August deadline for declaring India manual scavenging free, nearly a third of the country's 766 districts have yet to overcome...

According to data shared in the meeting, out of 766 districts, as many as 520 districts have declared themselves manual scavenging free, wh...

"This is betrayal with the poor," Surjewala tweeted, citing the reply given by the government to a question he asked about the scholarships...

The amount of work which usually takes three to four hours and at least three manual scavengers, Bandicoot finishes it in just 45 minutes.

The UN Young Leaders is a flagship initiative led by the UN Secretary-General António Guterres’s envoy of youth. The jury comprised of soci...

Puri said that Heller had got his “facts absolutely wrong” and seemed to be looking at the mission from a tinted lens.

"Human beings employed for doing work in the sewers cannot be treated as mechanical robots who may not be affected by poisonous gases in th...

According to HMWS&SB officials, each machine costs Rs 26 lakh. While the SBI has given a term loan of Rs 20 lakh per machine, entrepreneurs...

Shah credited Modi for turning the campaign against social ills into a mass movement and went on to name flagship initiatives such as Beti ...

Now that you are going to build some 10 crore more toilets by 2019, this means you will build some 10 crore more septic tanks.

Social justice ministry joins hands with cab services companies like Ola, Uber and Meru to transform lives of manual scavengers.

Shah said the modi-govt has brought a perceptive change in the system of governance by bringing in transparency and ended policy paralysis.

Modi's dream of ensuring a manual scavenging-free India by 2019 has been appreciated but states have a lot to do before it is anywhere clos...

PM Narendra Modi government has given a free hand to states and municipalities in implementation of Swachh Bharat scheme in urban areas.

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

Rourkela Industrial Township managed by Rourkela Steel Plant [RSP], has been ranked 14th in sanitation and cleanliness, for the year 2009-1...

The 'National Policy on Street Vendors' is being revised to enable street vendors carry out their trade without harassment by various autho...