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Social innovation in urban sanitation in India: Meeting unmet needs

While governmental efforts have contributed greatly to improving urban sanitation in the country and are much discussed in literature, systematic documentation and critical analysis of efforts made by nongovernmental institutions continues to be invisible in the discourse on sanitation and needs to be acknowledged, argues this book.

Shubhagato Dasgupta

Kaustuv Kanti Bandyopadhyay

Anju Dwivedi

Sumona DasGupta

Posted on 26 Jun, 2023 07:09 PM

Urban India continues to face the sanitation challenge and governmental efforts have contributed greatly to improving sanitation in the country. However, various non-governmental institutions have also experimented with innovative ideas in different regional contexts to meet the needs of the community and to ensure access to safe sanitation.

Urban sanitation, a growing challenge in India (Image Source: India Water Portal Flickr photos)

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