Parliament will convene for a special session to advance the Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam. This move introduces a 33 percent reservation fo...

Of the 4,378 urban local bodies, 4,284 have been declared and certified as open defecation free.

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

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...

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

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

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

The announcement was made on the state's foundation day today. Earlier, Himachal Pradesh and Sikkim had declared themselves Open Defecation...

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 Union Minister added that Centre will allocate a sum of Rs 2 lakh crore to each gram panchayats over the next five years for various de...

Nineteen cities in the state have achieved the status of being free of open defecation under the government's 'Swachh Maharashtra Mission'.

In India's case, there has been a reduction by 31 per cent in open defecation, a progress termed as "moderate" by the report.

UNICEF said the call to end the practice of open defecation is being made with growing insistence as the links with childhood stunting beco...

The Bihar government today admitted it has fallen way behind its target of constructing toilets and said a roadmap was being prepared to ma...

Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen today urged Left parties to fight for eradication of the practice of open defecation and open toilets, in additi...

Jairam Ramesh today launched the 'Nirmal Bharat Yatra' to make the country free from open defecation, in Sewagaram Ashram.