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Wednesday, July 30, 2025
TopicSwachh Bharat Mission

Topic: Swachh Bharat Mission

PM Modi hails 11 years of Swachh Bharat, says over 4,500 cities, towns joined the mission

Apprising the listeners of efforts made by people in Uttarakhand's Kirtinagar, the PM said that they have set a new example of waste management in the hills.

Swachh Bharat Mission averted 60,000-70,000 infant deaths between 2011 & 2020, shows Nature study

Researchers analysed infant & under-5 mortality data from 35 states, 640 districts. 'Happy to see research highlighting impact of Swachh Bharat Mission,' says Modi on X.

SubscriberWrites: How the government’s welfare schemes turn into a fad?

Rather than making it a public cause, if these had been made private causes involving every citizen of the country, some positive results would have been there.

World Bank papers show ‘most concerning’ decline in toilet usage. Withdrawn ‘under pressure’ later

The three World Bank papers, published in September, highlighted decline in toilet use citing lack of sustainable institutional measures to support Swacch Bharat Mission.

‘No improvement’ in public toilet availability in 3 years, say 52% urban Indians in LocalCircles survey

Conducted across 341 districts of India, the results of the survey were released Monday, to coincide with 9th anniversary of the Swachh Bharat Mission, launched by PM Modi on 2 October, 2014.

For the sixth time in a row, MP’s Indore clinches the ‘cleanest city in India’ tag

Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs released the Swachh Survekshan 2022 Saturday. With two cities in the top 10, Madhya Pradesh emerged as the best-performing state in India.  

Nudge, threats & help from state scheme — how Telangana villages scored Swachh Bharat top spot

Telangana has highest number of villages declared 'Open Defecation Free Plus', the 'plus' signifying sustained ODF status, solid and liquid waste management, and visual cleanliness.

PM Modi launches 2nd phase of pet projects Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban, AMRUT

The two missions have been designed to make all cities garbage free, water secure & help contribute towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals 2030, the PMO said.

Swachh Bharat’s first transgender toilets in MP is a giant leap: IAS officer

For decades, policy-making in India has treated transgenders as invisible while allocating funds for creation of public facilities. But inclusivity can't be reduced to a token exercise.

On Camera

Meghnad Desai was a man of many passions. Marxian economics, politics to Bollywood

Meghnad’s interest went much beyond economics and politics. This is reflected in his writing, particularly after his retirement as a full-time LSE professor in 2003.

Govt’s earlier FDI limit of 74% in insurance sector has remained underutilised, Parliament told

In the latest budget, the FDI limit was increased to 100 percent, but most foreign companies are not buying such large stakes in the Indian insurance sector.

India to get last of Spain-built C-295 next month, focus now on 1st India-made aircraft

New Delhi: The last of the C-295 transport aircraft that is replacing the ageing Avro fleet of the Indian Air Force (IAF) will be...

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.