Toilets

Open defecation continues to be a prevalent issue in many parts of rural India. Community members from a village in an Uttar Pradesh district are coming together to resolve the problem in their own areas.

Across rural Koraput, women have led the movement against open defecation although it’s never easy to wipe out centuries of set behavioural practices.

A student-designed solution always involves jugaad. And it was jugaad that helped Subik Pandian, a student of Class 8 put two and two together to make a urinal using a water can.

Two organisations in Madhya Pradhesh have developed a mobile app to enable building of toilets in villages.

Ashish and Ruta Kalawar left their well-paying jobs in England and returned to India to help empower the rural citizens of the country. Help them make their adopted village open-defecation free!

Sulabh International's Toilet Museum in Delhi offers a glimpse of the development of sanitation facilities across the world.

Dr. Avinash Pol, a dental surgeon from Maharashtra, guided the residents of more than 70 villages in the state to help revive water bodies and learn about beneficial government schemes. He also helped them with sanitation work.

HC Lavanya, a 13-year-old girl studying in Class 8 in Hemadal village of Karnataka's Chitradurga district, went on a hunger strike on Tuesday morning to demand that the village administration should take charge of ensuring that every house in her village is equipped with a toilet.

The government offers subsidies of Rs. 12,000 each to rural households for constructing toilets. But for one NGO that helps villagers use this scheme, the process of filing applications and tracking construction was proving to be difficult. Until an app called mDemand came along.

A Karnataka sarpanch is using a novel approach to persuade village folk in his district not to defecate in the open but build toilets instead.