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  Chhattisgarh Assembly Polls: CM Baghel questions Open Defecation Free status in letter to PM Modi

  chhattisgarh | September 04, 2023 13:38 IST

  ODF status is awarded to a state or district when it is certified as having no open defecation. This means that all households in the area have access to toilets and are using them.

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  Maharashtra village offers tax benefits on clicking, submitting pics of those defecating in open

  India | November 29, 2019 14:11 IST

  The 5,000-plus residents of Jarandi in Maharashtra's Aurangabad district have toilets in their homes with enough water supply, but some still choose to relieve themselves in the open, especially on the entry road to the village.

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  Man made to collect garbage as punishment for open defecation

  India | November 28, 2019 21:56 IST

  Talking to PTI, Indore Municipal Corporation (IMC) health officer, Vivek Gangrade, said that a civic team had reached Pologround Industrial Area on Thursday morning to inspect cleanliness, when it found the man defecating in the open there.

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  Rural India is now Open-Defecation free, says PM Modi. What it means

  India | October 02, 2019 23:39 IST

  Rural India has declared itself Open Defecation free, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Wednesday. Speaking at the Sabarmati Riverfront in Ahmedabad on Mahatma Gandhi's 150th birth anniversary, Modi also said the world appreciated India for providing toilets to over 60 crore people.

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  Tamil Nadu 100 per cent free of open defecation, reveals data

  India | October 02, 2019 18:44 IST

  Tamil Nadu has achieved 100 per cent Open Defecation Free (ODF) status as per data uploaded on the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) website. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on October 2, 2014, had announced the SBM for five years.

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  Mere Pyare Prime Minister’s Kanhu gives ‘Ranveer Ko Challenge’ with self-made rap. Watch viral video

  Celebrities | February 23, 2019 16:10 IST

  Kanhu made his own rendition of Gully Boy's popular track Meri Gully Mein and asked Ranveer Singh for help.

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  Despite progress, 12% of world still defecates in open: UNICEF chief

  India | October 01, 2018 19:29 IST

  In all, since 1990, 2.1 billion people globally have gained access to improved sanitation facilities. "A great result. One that improves health and nutrition outcomes for children, empowers women, boosts economic prosperity and growth for entire nations," Fore said.   

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  Government plans Yamuna gram scheme to make villages open defecation free

  India | February 18, 2018 11:19 IST

  In his budget speech, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, while praising the mission, had specially mentioned about the Ganga gram scheme and declared that all 4,465 villages on the banks of the river had been declared open defecation free.

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  11 states are now open defecation free: Government

  India | February 08, 2018 19:57 IST

  The government today informed the Lok Sabha that till date 11 states and union territories (UTs) have been declared open defecation free (ODF) under Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM), the Centre's flagship programme.

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  After Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh becomes second Open Defecation Free state in India

  Good News | December 31, 2017 20:36 IST

  Arunachal has 21 districts and the state attained the feat much before the national deadline of October 2, 2019.

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  Bizarre! Bihar govt asks school teachers to keep a watch on people defecating in open

  India | November 23, 2017 6:11 IST

  In a letter to CM Nitish Kumar, Bihar Secondary School Teachers Association's general secretary Shatrughan Prasad Singh said it is ‘disrespectful and exploitative’.

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  President Kovind visits Mahatma Gandhi's birthplace, declares rural Gujarat open defecation free

  India | October 02, 2017 21:12 IST

  President Ram Nath Kovind today paid rich tributes to Mahatma Gandhi at his birthplace Kirti Mandir in Gujarat's Porbandar, and stressed that cleanliness was a "multi-stakeholder" national movement

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  'No toilet, no bride': UP village steps up fight against open defecation

  Good News | September 27, 2017 15:31 IST

  Swachh Bharat Abhiyan was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on October 2, 2014. The objectives of Swachh Bharat are to reduce or eliminate open defecation through the construction of individual, cluster and community toilets.

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  MP family fined Rs 75,000 for open defecation

  India | September 19, 2017 17:19 IST

  The panchayat of Rambhakhedi village also served notices to 43 other families there to stop defecating in the open.

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  Insanitation costing India over Rs 3.45 lakh crore a year: Unicef official

  India | September 18, 2017 21:31 IST

  A study from the World Bank shows that the total economic impacts of inadequate sanitation in India was amounting to $53.8 billion per year, equivalent of 6.4 % of India's Gross Development Production in the same period.

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  Hilarious! Twinkle Khanna reveals the first scene of Toilet: Ek Prem Katha Part 2

  Bollywood | August 19, 2017 16:06 IST

  Twinkle Khanna's sense of humour is always on point. This time she relates Toilet: Ek Prem Katha with a rather hilarious scene at Mumbai beach.

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  Good News: On Raksha Bandhan, men in Amethi offer toilets as gift to sisters

  Good News | August 17, 2017 0:02 IST

  Brothers in Uttar Pradesh's Amethi district offered toilets as gift to their sisters on Raksha Bandha this year.

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  Toilet: Ek Prem Katha Day 1 Box Office Collection- Akshay Kumar’s film gets a fair opening

  Bollywood | August 12, 2017 18:42 IST

  Akshay Kumar's Toilet: Ek Prem Katha is expected to do a good business on Independence Day.

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  Toilet-Ek Prem Katha raises India’s open defecation crisis: Why it matters

  Lifestyle | August 10, 2017 19:01 IST

  Let’s talk about the ‘Open Defecation Crisis’ in India and what the numbers have to say about it.

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  ‘Sell your wife if you can’t afford to build a toilet’: Angry IAS officer's comment stirs row in Bihar

  India | July 24, 2017 12:49 IST

  The IAS officer, the District Magistrate of Aurangabad in Bihar, was addressing a 'swacchchta sabha' urging villagers to build toilets in their homes. He also pointed to the threat women face due to open defecation