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Toilets and Urinals
Government schemes converge at Sarda Panchayat in Sambalpur, Odisha
Posted on 24 Apr, 2016 11:41 AMSince India became independent in 1947, the central and state governments have introduced various rural development schemes, and have been trying to get them to converge. While this effort hasn't been as impactful on a large scale, there are some success stories. Sarda Panchayat in Sambalpur, Odisha is one.
![View of Sarda village, Odisha](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/_dsc0025tps.jpg?itok=wj_eoczI)
Sanitation must go beyond shame and stigma
Posted on 22 Apr, 2016 02:00 PMIndia has come a long way since the days of its rigid top-down Central Rural Sanitation Programme (CRSP), which had minimal community participation. First it was the Total Sanitation Campaign which then became the Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan, and most recently, the Swachh Bharat Mission.
![Compact soak pit toilet](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/9066013322_dc96b4d003_z_1.jpg?itok=e0iQdfgQ)
Positive correlation between higher levels of education for women and toilet use
Posted on 21 Apr, 2016 10:07 AMIndia continues to have the highest number of people defecating out in the open according to recent figures by the World Health Organisation
![Toilet use in India (Source: Sourabh Phadke)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/toilets_11.jpg?itok=aZmViOEp)
School toilet construction slows down across the country compared to last year
Posted on 18 Apr, 2016 10:55 AM![](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/3220088151_d2ef00faa6_z_0.jpg?itok=qU0PByLb)
Low cost napkins: Are they a band aid in the absence of sanitation facilities?
Posted on 15 Apr, 2016 05:24 PMMenstrual hygiene management continues to be a challenge for rural women in India and many women are forced to resort to unhygienic ways of managing menstruation thus affecting their health and well-being. The paper titled 'Menstrual management and low cost sanitary napkins' published in the Economic and
![Women, menstrual management and sanitation (Source: India Water Portal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/women_and_toilets_1.jpg?itok=mz0L8dqW)
Exempt people living in slums from submitting registered sale deed copies for releasing sewerage connections: HMWSSB
Posted on 12 Apr, 2016 10:30 AM![](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/193418987_f77cfd0c4d_z.jpg?itok=S7cVjWmO)
Deepor Beel now houses most of Guwahati's garbage
Posted on 04 Apr, 2016 10:30 AM![](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/13225001263_8fe96c17b7_z.jpg?itok=wGF87ze3)
Toilet subsidy is not the answer to sanitation problems
Posted on 31 Mar, 2016 06:30 PM![](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/2366204790_ca2c825712_z%2520%25281%2529.jpg?itok=o2OeGsqr)
Use of plastic in road constuction now made mandatory
Posted on 29 Mar, 2016 08:44 AM![](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/article-2727285-209982F500000578-128_638x399.jpg?itok=qOHNBDCd)
Urban India flushes toilet waste—directly or indirectly—into its water bodies
Posted on 28 Mar, 2016 05:29 PMSwachh Bharat Mission (Urban), one of the flagship programmes of the current NDA government, focuses on eliminating open defecation in urban India by constructing individual household, community and public toilets.
![Mumbai's Oshiwara river severely polluted with waste (Source: Wikipedia)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/800px-oshiwara_river.jpg?itok=RYauvYyS)