Swachhta aur Paani Aakhir Bachani Hai Zindgani

The Mission Paani World Toilet Day event saw the gathering of some of the notable personalities who took forward the agenda of access to clean water, safe sanitation and hygiene for all.

Her renowned studies including the one conducted on Kolkata's street vendors enabled a significant understanding of core hygiene issues.

Reckitt, a British health, hygiene and nutrition product giant, has been promoting improved water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) practices in India through its various campaigns.

Narayan was the first-ever Indian professional dancer who, for a long period of time, combined a full-fledged career as a senior serving civil servant in the Government of India, before retiring from her services in 2010.

Women entrepreneurs have the potential to be the biggest force in India's economic growth story.

Research suggests that hand cleanliness appears to be the most essential component in preventing the spread of many diseases.

Even though the central government announced the country open defecation free in 2019

Ambitious initiatives like the Swachh Bharat Mission are proving to be a game-changer in terms of access to toilets and safe sanitation.

Water borne diseases among children can be controlled by adopting improved WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) practices.

Villages in Maharashtra’s drought prone areas often struggle for water and the situation becomes worse during summer.

Inadequate access to safe drinking water and lack of hygiene at schools could result in serious health consequences for children.

Many men and women are compelled to take up cleaning jobs simply because they belong to lower castes or come from poor or marginalised families.

Discrimination based on caste makes it difficult for people from lower castes to find work other than cleaning jobs, including manual scavenging.

The lack of adequate toilets and proper hygiene in schools are major barriers to school attendance and education of children, specifically for girls.

Amar Sahota, who has been sweeping and cleaning sewages under municipal contractors in Patiala, Punjab

The Mission Paani World Toilet Day event saw the gathering of some of the notable personalities who took forward the agenda of access to clean water, safe sanitation and hygiene for all.

Mission Paani’s World Toilet Day event saw the gathering of some of the notable personalities from the sanitation sector, environment warriors, industry experts among others to take forward the agenda of sustainable sanitation and water conservation.

Gajendra Singh Shekhawat said, “News 18 Mission Pani initiative aligns Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of clean India and I congratulate the team for supporting the cause in every possible way."

Talking about the access to quality hygiene and sanitation facilities, Gaurav Jain said, “There is a fight which is about access to highest quality hygiene, wellness and nourishment as a right, not a privilege."

Her renowned studies including the one conducted on Kolkata's street vendors enabled a significant understanding of core hygiene issues.

Reckitt, a British health, hygiene and nutrition product giant, has been promoting improved water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) practices in India through its various campaigns.

Narayan was the first-ever Indian professional dancer who, for a long period of time, combined a full-fledged career as a senior serving civil servant in the Government of India, before retiring from her services in 2010.

Women entrepreneurs have the potential to be the biggest force in India's economic growth story.

The institute has appointed Prof. Mihir Kumar Purkait, Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Guwahati as the first occupant of this Chair

Carbon concentrations are so high that the world has warmed quite a bit. And the warmer climate is making itself felt through water.

Balasaheb Wagh used to work as a manual scavenger due to which he had to face social discrimination several times.

Dipak Suryawanshi, a 36-year-old private contractor in Aurangabad, worked as an independent sanitation worker for 14 years.

Ratan Uttam Gaikwad joined sanitation work out of desperation after completing his graduation.

The Central government has recently rolled out Swachh Bharat Mission 2 after an unprecedented success of the first phase.

Mission Paani as a platform brings together the experts and activists across sectors including communities, corporates, NGOs, water and sanitation warriors, change-makers and celebrities to amplify all efforts towards access to clean water, sanitation and hygiene

Human life depends on clean water and hygiene. India is a country largely dominated by monsoon rainfall that gets collected as ground and surface water.

From being a dumping ground for plastic waste just a decade ago, the Thapana River now has a thriving ecosystem and is worshipped as a goddess.

We started the project in January this year and already, 1,500 village manifestos, outlining how the locals would like to develop their village and what facilities they would like to have there, have been made.

Priyanka Bharti dared to take a step in 2012 which gave birth to a social revolution in Maharajganj district of Uttar Pradesh.

Laadi Singh Kesar Singh Ramrasi, a 32-year-old sanitation worker from Patiala, Punjab, was all set to go to college when his dreams were cut short by poverty.

In 1989, Ranchhodbhai Kabira, a resident of Transad, a village around 50km away from Ahmedabad, travelled to the city in search of work.

Vinubhai Gangadiya worked as a daily wage labourer for almost 23 years of his life.

Her family belonged to the community of people engaged in manual scavenging.

Satish, who lived in a slum, had given up the hope to leave it behind. His family and neighbours all were manual scavengers. The situation was so difficult that they didn’t have proper drinking water.

Despite being at the forefront of maintaining cleanliness in both urban and rural areas the sanitation workers face social discrimination and earn a paltry sum, usually not enough to meet ends.

Satish and his family have left the slum and moved into a better neighbourhood. His brothers, too, joined Harpic World Toilet College and have moved into different sectors for work.

Having a toilet in the household is vital for every woman and lack of it causes various difficulties including health hazards. Lack of household toilets exposes them to the risks of molestation and harassment apart from compromising their dignity.

Sayyad Irfan, a 25-year-old manual scavenger from Aurangabad, had to drop out of school to help his family.

The WEF launched the India chapter of the Alliance of CEO Climate Action Leaders to supercharge the country's climate action and decarbonisation efforts

Once communities understand the benefits of conservation over exploitation, they will be the first responders to counter any threat to their eco spaces, natural or human induced

Divya and Parth finally went ahead with Tyron’s idea in June last year

On March 2 this year, a total of 170 nations pledged to do away with the use of plastics by the year 2030.

Addressing the taboo around mental health in various sects of society is really necessary to build a healthy environment and a happy world

The hardened wood knife can be cleaned and reused, giving it a viable alternative to steel, ceramic, and throwaway plastic knives.

In addition to participating in the Raisina Dialogue, she will also hold political talks

What used to be the only way to understand space in earlier times, is now degrading in its quality to impart information, and the reason is touted to be the proliferation of satellites in the sky.

Reliance Jio Infocomm had submitted proposals for construction of 41 mobile towers in the Gir and Girnar wildlife sanctuaries.

Children and the communities in the urban slums of Tamil Nadu are being taught to follow better health and hygiene practices.