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From demolitions to toilets for show: How Indore won Swachh Bharat top rank

Families who had paid for toilets and were midway through construction allege that their houses were destroyed before surveyors came around

Thousands of Mahatmas can't bring 'swachhta', 1.25 bn Indians can: PM Modi

PM Modi was addressing an event at Vigyan Bhavan to mark three years of the Centre's Swachh Bharat Mission

Army responds to PM's Swachhata call, removes 60 tonnes waste from Siachen

Cleanliness has been intrinsic to the culture and tradition of the armed forces

Give adequate attention to Swachh Bharat campaign: Govt to TV, FM channels

I&B Ministry has issued an advisory to private entities in this regard

Only 51.6% of India's open defecation free villages are verified by govt

The World Bank also rated the implementation of the programme 'moderately unsatisfactory'

Thanks to women, Ambikapur becomes first waste-free town in Chhattisgarh

Town adopts solid and liquid resource management method to solve the problem of urban waste

Swachh Bharat Mission: Half way down the road

New Delhi, 14 MarchParameswaran Iyer is on a two-year contract with the government to achieve the incredible - ensuring a 100 per cent open defecation-free rural India by October 2, 2019. An IAS officer who took voluntary retirement in 2009, Iyer is back as the hand-picked secretary of the drinking water and sanitation ministry in charge of Swachh Bharat Mission's rural components and cross-ministry coordination.The targets he is tasked to achieve can easily overwhelm. He has to ensure all 609,883 villages become open defecation-free (ODF) in two years. An estimated 171,806 claim to be ODF and of these 71,377 have been verified to be so - that is about 12 per cent of the target.Take another target. His ministry is to build 70 million household toilets by 2019. The government says 18.2 million were built in 2016-17, and 12.6 million in the year before.It's clear Iyer has his task cut out, considering the work is to now pick speed in the poorer states with a low base to start with. And .

Daily waste from Indian cities, towns could fill 16 jumbo jets: Report

The report found that India has the greatest number of urban-dwellers in the world without safe sanitation

Swachh Bharat Mission failed in Delhi, BJP-led MCDs to blame: Satyendra Jain

Satyendra Jain said civic bodies failed to clean city and it led to spurt in dengue and chikungunya cases.

PM Narendra Modi calls for a 'Swachhagraha' against filth

PM Modi was addressing the India Sanitation Conference at Vigyan Bhavan

2.5 crore toilets constructed in India in two years: PM Modi

He also appealed to masses to connect with cleanliness campaign and send photos or videos on the 'NarendraModiApp

PM Modi to review progress of Swachh Bharat Mission

Swachh Bharat Mission will complete its two year on 2nd October

Mandi, Sindhudurg emerge cleanest districts in India

total of 22 hill districts and 53 plain areas were assessed under the Gramin Swachh Survekshan launched in May this year

P V Sindhu, Sakshi Malik likely to be new faces of Swachh Bharat Mission

For achieving universal sanitation and to put focus on hygiene, PM Modi launched the Swachh Bharat Mission on October 2, 2014

Swachh Bharat Mission: Govt mulling penalising those spreading dirt

Swachh Bharat Mission is being implemented by the Urban Development and Drinking Water and Sanitation Ministry for urban and rural areas, respectively

Swachh Bharat Mission: Street plays to be held across Delhi

Urban Development Ministry said it has decided to rope in the youth of the country through its next set of thematic drives

Now, Swachh Bharat seeks global facelift

Government keen to move Swachh Bharat up in peoples perception, ahead of the many state elections

Govt to clean 10 iconic places under Swachh Bharat Mission

Once this pilot project is completed, the govt will carry out a similar cleanliness drive at the remaining 90 places

Swachh Bharat, Digital India score poorly, top rating for Railways

Two-part survey by govt gives top ratings to reforms in railways, power and roads. Modi's pet schemes score poorly

Swachch Bharat Mission a community movement: President Mukherjee

In a reflection of how the spirit of Swachh Bharat has manifested in primary schools, over 4,17,000 functional toilets for girls and boys have been constructed