Explore the paradox of the Swachh Bharat Mission, a clean initiative facing criticism for exposing marginalized workers to hazardous, stigmatized labor conditions. Discover the urgent need for ...

The Mahakumbh, after 144 years, highlights cleanliness under Swachh Bharat and leadership initiatives, ensuring pristine conditions and efficient sanitation at the Ganga, Yamuna, and Sangam Ghats.

The Swachh Bharat Mission is a country-wide campaign initiated by the central government on October 2, 2014, to eliminate open defecation and improve solid waste management.

Post 2019, we must step up to resolve these challenges in making India truly Swachh Bharat. Let us call the mission after the October 2019 as SBM++.

'Swachh Bharat Mission' to continue till 2025-26 A financial outlay of Rs 1,41,600 cr has been finalized for SBM-U 2.0, including central share of Rs 36,465 for period 2021-22 to 2025-26 which is ...

The ministry of housing and urban affairs is looking to finalise the draft of the second phase of Swachh Bharat Mission which may have increased focus on managing solid waste and sludge .Union ...

To make Swachh Bharat Mission II a meaningful effort, govt must budget for a survey on sanitation behaviour by an independent agency ...

In October 2024, Swachh Bharat Mission, India’s largest sanitation project to make the country “open defecation-free”, turned 10. The project constructed over a hundred million toilets and ...

The Swachh Bharat Mission is not just a cleanliness programme but now a means of prosperity that has added jobs and provided dignity to the poor and women, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on ...

Last August, I visited Rajasthan to understand what the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM), which aims to eliminate open defecation in India by October 2, has done. In the villages I visited, many ...