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Toilets and Urinals
Ramanathapuram's tryst with total sanitation
Posted on 04 Dec, 2014 12:07 PM![](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/Toilets_0.jpg?itok=sjMeDzL6)
Nightsoil to biogas: Mapuskar's Malaprabha
Posted on 04 Dec, 2014 11:46 AM![](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/dr_mapuskar.preview.jpg?itok=xonZk9cf)
Nirmal Gram Puraskar - Changing landscapes and mindsets
Posted on 30 Nov, 2014 11:57 AMWith over 638 million people defecating in the open, India’s obsession with constructing toilets is not surprising. In a bid to arrest the number of people going out to answer nature’s call, successive governments have been pushing their total sanitation drive under different names.
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No toilet, no job
Posted on 28 Nov, 2014 03:04 PMThipramahadevi Pudhur is a village in Erumapatti Block, Namakkal District with 115 households. In July this year, this village was declared as ‘open-defecation free’ (ODF), something that was aided by Leaf Society, an organization based in Namakkal and their effective strategy of awareness generation, and leveraging of government loans to communities via convergence.
![Billboard declaring Thipramahadevi Pudhur ODF](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/img_2598.jpg?itok=5wHi2l4i)
Water Aid launches tool to track Swachh Bharat Mission
Posted on 25 Nov, 2014 11:15 AMAn interactive tool to monitor progress of toilet construction launched
![Toilet under construction in Karnataka](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/8456951985_136ea1c01a_k_0.jpg?itok=bJ26Yo7E)
Toilets and social networks: Is there a connection?
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM![](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/2366204790_e4e0fbf9b5_o_1.jpg?itok=Ik8a0BgI)
It's not just about rape
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AMNandatai and her 16 year old daughter Phula creep out of their houses quietly in the wee hours of the morning into the dark fields to relieve themselves before everyone wakes up. It is an everyday story as this is the only time in the day that they have privacy. “It is so shameful to go out in the fields during the day”, says Nandatai. “We have to hold our urine till it gets dark.
![Sanitation access among women is a fundamental human right (Image Source: surrealpenguin via Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2023-11/Working_women_in_rajasthan_countryside_india.jpg?itok=Wlj5S6fF)
Factors affecting toilet adoption in rural India
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AMSince the rebranding of the Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan to the Swach Bharat Mission, newspapers have been flooded with articles and discussions on the need to improve the sanitation scenario in India.
Furious Jhelum claims 160 lives
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AMJ&K reels under the worst flood in 60 years
Increased subsidy for toilet construction
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AMHigher monetary incentives for toilet construction and delinking sanitation mission from MGNREGS