Women-led and women’s rights organizations are on the frontlines of today’s humanitarian crises—but many are at risk of disappearing. As global needs rise due to conflict, climate change, and displacement, deep cuts to foreign aid are threatening organizations that provide life-saving services for women and girls. In March 2025, UN …
For the first time in an Indian Science Congress, a session on sanitation was introduced for a discussion on the country’s status in the area of hygiene which had received national attention with the launch of Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM). The ongoing 103rd ISC in Mysuru hosted the session with …
Sulabh International founder Padma Bhushan Bindeshwar Pathak on Monday said Madhya Pradesh has better sanitation facilities as compared to Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. Hailing Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 'clean India' campaign, Pathak said the movement has brought about positive change in the country in last one year. However, he lamented …
MADHUSUDANKATI, INDIA – Charity workers have teamed with an impoverished village in eastern India to develop what they say is the world’s cheapest bottle of drinking water — costing less than one U.S. cent. After years of suffering illnesses from drinking polluted ground water, residents of Madusudankati are now receiving …
Bharti Foundation today said it has appointed Sulabh International for constructing 12,000 toilets in rural households across 900 villages in Ludhiana district of Punjab. The philanthropic arm of Sunil Mittal-led Bharti Enterprises has committed Rs 100 crore investment under 'Satya Bharti Abhiyan' over the next three years for constructing toilets …
Most of these women were forced to become manual scavengers after marriage Shochalaya nahin toh dulhan nahin [No toilet, no bride]” This is the slogan raised by women from Alwar and Kota in Rajasthan, who joined the International Toilet Festival here on Tuesday. Most of these women, who became manual …
India along with Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Laos, Vietnam and Afghanistan will participate in a three-day International Toilet Festival in the city, which will start on Tuesday to create awareness about the importance of toilets and hygiene. “The whole purpose is to draw the attention of masses towards the issue …
VARANASI: Will Prime Minister Narendra Modi use the expertise of Sulabh International, a pioneer organization working in the field of biogas generation from human excreta, to save Ganga from sewage pollution? Sulabh has offered its services in cleaning the Ganga with the help of its indigenously developed technology. "It is …
The city continues to bear the stigma of poor sanitation practices. As the number of slums goes on increasing with rise in population and economic activities, no step is taken to inculcate healthy toilet habit among the people. While open defecation is still a common site in Silk City, lack …
Regretting that people still use open toilets all over the country, Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram today stressed the need to expedite and intensify implementation of the total sanitation programme to prevent such habits. Inaugurating a sanitation facility for 15 schools in this district, he said the UPA government's law …
Following the passage of the ‘Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Bill, 2013’ in Parliament last week, leading NGO Sulabh International on Monday appointed seven former women scavengers as ‘ombudsmen’. They will lead a campaign to make India a manual scavenging-free nation. Terming it a “symbolic step” …
After getting overwhelming response from the private sector in major rail infrastructure public private partnership (PPP) projects, Indian railways is now eyeing to attract an investment of around R1,000 crore from private sector for building toilets at 600 railway stations under PPP mode. The much-needed step to provide basic amenity …
Lack of access to sufficient number of fully functional community toilets and the scant number of public toilets have gradually deteriorated the sanitation in the city. The city currently has 20 Sulabh International operated public toilets under the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC). The BMC has 60 wards under it. So …
A study has found that the poor households earned a total of Rs 1,545 cr, spent a total of Rs 1,185 cr, and contributed a savings of Rs 360 cr to the city in 2011 Urban poor living in slums of Bangalore contribute 3-3.5 per cent of the City’s economy. …
Planning Commission dy chairman defends . 35L spent on toilets. While the government wants India to tighten its belt, the Planning Commission can afford to, well, flush with cash. On Wednesday, Commission chief Montek Singh Ahluwalia said that . 35 lakh spent on two toilets in his office was not …
The founder of an NGO, which works to eliminate manual scavenging, today offered his services to the government for eradicating the social evil in next three years. Speaking at a function here, Bindeshwar Pathak, the founder of Sulabh International, said he was prepared to go to jail if the work …
Sulabh International has invited Microsoft founder Bill Gates to visit its headquarters in the Capital to witness its low-cost, environment-friendly toilet technology being used in India and other developing nations. The NGO's invitation follows Mr. Gates' statement made during recent visit to India where he said his “ultimate dream” was …
Non-government organisation Sulabh International on Thursday said it would give a Rs.2-lakh cash reward to newly-married Priyanka of Kanchanpur Kuiya village in Maharajganj district of Uttar Pradesh who refused to go to her in-laws' house because it lacked a proper toilet. The NGO, working in the field of sanitation, has …
The world’s largest toilet-cum-bath chain Sulabh has now become much more unhygienic and the people of the State capital are the worst sufferers. Bhopal’s public toilet-cum-bath complexes run by Sulabh International have become very unhygienic and this is due to negligence of authorities and those in charge of cleaning them. …
GUWAHATI: For implementation of the Total Sanitation Campaign in Assam, National Coordinator of New Delhi’s Sulabh International Social Service, Rupal Roy, met Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi yesterday. Roy briefed the Chief Minister as to how this sanitation programme should be carried on in the State. The Total Sanitation Campaign is …
Shimla: The European Union (EU) has approved a Rs 7-crore city sanitation project for the state capital along with capacity building and awareness in four other municipalities in Himachal Pradesh. The erstwhile summer capital of the British, a pale shadow of its glorious past, was ranked at the 293rd position …
