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Waging Sanitation Revolution, Village Women Turn Entrepreneurs In Uttarakhand
With bricks and masonry tools in their hands, 25 women from Haridwar in Uttarakhand are waging a silent sanitation revolution in their villages. They are building and selling toilets and ensuring women in their village get access to toilets and clean water. In Haridwar’s Mithi Beri gram panchayat, daily wagers Rajeshwari Devi and Beena Devi, who ...
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Literate Woman Leaders In Villages: Rajasthan's Big Social Experiment
The new sarpanch of Rajasthan’s Sichana village has two key things on her to-do list: eradication of child marriage and building toilets. The first is an elusive goal. On the second, she has hit the bull’s eye within months of her election. Manju Meghwal embodies the new face of grassroots leader in Rajasthan – one that can put the state on a...
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He Built a Toilet For His Daughter-in-Law. A Village Was Inspired
For Sunita Bai, a walk to the fields every morning to go the toilet was as much a struggle as an embarrassment. This August, the 26-year-old, who suffers from polio, managed to convince her father-in-law, a poor landless labourer, to build a toilet at their home.
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India Matters: Demanding Toilets
There is a demand for toilets, yet, as the UN points out, more people have access to mobiles than toilets. The reason is unlike toilets, mobiles are cheap and user ready with back end infrastructure.
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With 'Good Morning', a Village Fights Against Open Defecation
Bekkinakeri, a village in Belagavi district in northern Karnataka, fought against this practice with a simple 'good morning'.
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Woman Who Sold 'Mangalsutra' to Build Toilet Honoured
Maharashtra Rural Development Minister Pankaja Munde today honoured Sangita Awhale, a woman from Saikheda village in Washim district, who sold her 'mangalsutra' (a sacred necklace worn by married Hindu women) to build a toilet.
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Highlights: 12-Hour Banega Swachh India Cleanathon
NDTV and Dettol have launched a nationwide campaign called Banega Swachh India. The two-fold aim of this initiative is to create awareness about the importance of proper hygiene and sanitation in rural India, and raise funds to build toilets. As a part of this initiative, is the 12-hour LIVE televised Cleanathon, which will bring together t...
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Waging Sanitation Revolution, Village Women Turn Entrepreneurs In Uttarakhand
With bricks and masonry tools in their hands, 25 women from Haridwar in Uttarakhand are waging a silent sanitation revolution in their villages. They are building and selling toilets and ensuring women in their village get access to toilets and clean water. In Haridwar’s Mithi Beri gram panchayat, daily wagers Rajeshwari Devi and Beena Devi, who ...
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Literate Woman Leaders In Villages: Rajasthan's Big Social Experiment
The new sarpanch of Rajasthan’s Sichana village has two key things on her to-do list: eradication of child marriage and building toilets. The first is an elusive goal. On the second, she has hit the bull’s eye within months of her election. Manju Meghwal embodies the new face of grassroots leader in Rajasthan – one that can put the state on a...
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He Built a Toilet For His Daughter-in-Law. A Village Was Inspired
For Sunita Bai, a walk to the fields every morning to go the toilet was as much a struggle as an embarrassment. This August, the 26-year-old, who suffers from polio, managed to convince her father-in-law, a poor landless labourer, to build a toilet at their home.
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India Matters: Demanding Toilets
There is a demand for toilets, yet, as the UN points out, more people have access to mobiles than toilets. The reason is unlike toilets, mobiles are cheap and user ready with back end infrastructure.
-
With 'Good Morning', a Village Fights Against Open Defecation
Bekkinakeri, a village in Belagavi district in northern Karnataka, fought against this practice with a simple 'good morning'.
-
Woman Who Sold 'Mangalsutra' to Build Toilet Honoured
Maharashtra Rural Development Minister Pankaja Munde today honoured Sangita Awhale, a woman from Saikheda village in Washim district, who sold her 'mangalsutra' (a sacred necklace worn by married Hindu women) to build a toilet.
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Highlights: 12-Hour Banega Swachh India Cleanathon
NDTV and Dettol have launched a nationwide campaign called Banega Swachh India. The two-fold aim of this initiative is to create awareness about the importance of proper hygiene and sanitation in rural India, and raise funds to build toilets. As a part of this initiative, is the 12-hour LIVE televised Cleanathon, which will bring together t...
