open defecation free

When the Swachh Bharat Mission was launched across India in 2014, Monika decided to attend a training session to understand what the buzz was about- a session that would write the course of her life!

The Indian government's recently-launched Swachh Bharat internship programme helps college students earns awards, incentives and UGC credits while cleaning villages.

Vimala’s on-ground efforts in the village revealed a struggle similar to what viewers saw in the acclaimed Hindi film, ‘Toilet’, starring Akshay Kumar and Bhumi Pednekar.

It's not just about building toilets but to bring about the necessary behavioural change among the community towards open defecation.

Instead of encouraging women to leave their marital homes due to the absence of toilets, she is empowering them to fight for their rights and enable the construction of one.

The state must now work towards maintaining their ODF status and end the possibility of open defecation in the future.

Part of the Swachh Bharat mission, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs has issued an official document that mandates all state mission directors and municipal commissioners to identify public and community toilets in their jurisdiction and allocate these with unique Identification numbers.

Ritu Jaiswal shunned an easygoing life with her IAS officer spouse in Delhi to transform the flood-hit hamlet of Singhwahini in Bihar.

Located in Madhya Pradesh's Narsinghpur district, the small village of Baghuwar has shown what a community can do when it comes together for a better tomorrow.

These villagers braved death threats, vigilantly drove open defecators away at four in the morning, achieved ODF and are now using human excreta as manure.