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HomeSwachh Bharat Mission

Swachh Bharat Mission

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Infrastructure

Why the COVID surge calls for immediate attention to public toilets in our cities

April 26, 2021 Kolla Krishna Madhavi

Several studies have highlighted why public toilets could be a hotbed of COVID spread. How should these toilets be maintained, to keep our cities not only ‘swachh’, but also healthy?

Waste Management

What makes our cities clean: On Swachh Survekshan, rankings and beyond

September 29, 2020 Rishabh Shrivastava

Key highlights from a webinar organised by Citizen Matters on the Swachh Survekshan 2020 and the deeper insights from experts.

Shimla cityscape
Waste Management

How a small Himalayan town panchayat is showing Shimla the way to effective waste management

October 22, 2019 Ashwani Sharma

Aima panchayat, an urban-rural agglomeration near Palampur, has its own modern garbage treatment park, with the facility to handle all kinds of waste, including plastic. Inspired by it, Shimla has now set up its own waste-to-energy plant, expected to help the capital in sustainable waste management.

Waste Management

Why Karnataka cities are struggling to manage waste: DPRs may hold answers

January 10, 2019 Himanshu Upadhyaya

DPRs, or Detailed Project Reports, prepared according to Swachh Bharat Mission guidelines, should form the base for planning and execution of SWM in urban local bodies. Find out what the CAG says about them in its performance audit report.

Civic

Swachh rankings: Why Alappuzha with its award winning system is in the bottom 100

June 20, 2017 Navya P K

The Alappuzha model of waste management was presented as a zero-waste model at the Paris Climate Conference in 2015. Yet the city stands at a dismal rank of 380 in the recent clean city rankings. Navya P K finds out why.


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