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Six states including four BJP-ruled states set to declare themselves Open Defecation FreeA review undertaken by secretary, urban development, DS Mishra, on Monday revealed that by Gandhi Jayanti, 1,559 cities and towns — about 4...
75% villages along banks of Ganga are open defecation-free: PM ModiModi said since the government launched the Swachh Bharat Mission in October 2014, over 1,80,000 villages across 130 districts have been de...
Uttarakhand, Gujarat and Haryana in race to join Swachh ClubSix districts out of 33 and all 170 towns of Gujarat have gone ODF while five out of the 21 districts in Haryana have turned ODF as on date.
How Sikkim became the cleanest state, and is working towards becoming poverty-free in four yearsThe model has evolved over the years to ensure citizens abide by the rules — breaking them fetches stiff fines. Urinating in a public place...
Modi government infuses fresh urgency into implementation of Swachh Bharat Rural schemeBarely 11% of India's 6.38 lakh villages have turned open defecation free, with only 17 of the 683 districts declared ODF 22 months after t...
How politics is putting a dampener on the government's social sector initiativesAs Modi government completes two years in Delhi, ET takes a look at how the big-ticket social sector initiatives are progressing.
Budget 2016: Full text of Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's speechJaitley presented his third budget which took on the fiscal and physical health of the nation by setting the fiscal deficit target at 3.5% ...
Chief Ministers' panel bats for fuel cess to fund Swachh BharatPetrol and diesel as well as telephony services may cost more if the government accepts recommendations of a panel of Chief Ministers to le...
Make "Swachh Bharat" a centrally sponsored scheme: Karnataka governmentThe Congress government in Karnataka today pitched for making "Swachh Bharat" a centrally sponsored scheme, to make the state open defecati...