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Bharat Dogra
Hidden in Plain Sight: Poor Left Out of Sanitation Campaign
02 Jun 2020
Field reports from rural and urban settlements shows the poor and weaker sections are being denied the use of toilets.
Suhit K Sen
Modi Govt’s Scatological Concerns Need Clean-Up
05 Oct 2019
A toilet mission with statistical gaps cannot inspire trust.
Newsclick Production
Failure of Ujjwala and Swachh Bharat Mission in Modi's Own Constituency
09 May 2019
Majority of women from Narottampur village told NewsClick that they have not received any gas cylinder, nor have toilets been built under any scheme.
Newsclick Production
Misplaced Priorities of BJP and Modi, Blind Eye to Manual Scavenging Deaths
08 Apr 2019
In Tamil Nadu alone, 147 deaths related to manual scavenging were reported in the past year.
Shilpa Shaji
Does Swachh Bharat Mission Serve Its Purpose?
04 Oct 2018
“Total sanitation for all and a clean India is still elusive,” says a report by Parliamentary Committee on Rural Development.
Sagrika Kissu
Death of 5 Men in A Septic Tank Adds to Delhi’s Hall of Shame
10 Sep 2018
Modi Govt’s flagship Swachh Bharat Abhiyan has made no provision for waste management while pushing for building more and more toilets.
Newsclick Report
Sanitation Workers Across the Country Protest for Minimum Wages
02 Jan 2018
Along with minimum wages, the workers also demanded same-pay-for-same-work and job regularization.
Newsclick Report
Glaring Corruption in Implementation of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan in UP
30 Nov 2017
The government seems to be in a hurry to declare most of the villages in UP open defecation free, even though toilets have not been built or built with sub-standard materials in most of the cases.
Bezawada Wilson
Indian Government Must Open their Eyes Towards Marginalised People: Bezwada Wilson
17 Nov 2017
Bezawada Wilson spoke to Newsclick on the observations made by UN special rapporteur on the failure of Swachh Bharat Mission.
Surangya Kaur
Swachh Bharat Mission Flouts Human Rights Principles says UN, Indian Government Denies the Claim
15 Nov 2017
The ground reality presents a different picture of India's sanitation than what the government would like us to believe.