sanitation

As sanitation work gets privatised in urban India, it reinforces caste hierarchies, wage theft, and occupational immobility for Dalit workers.

Waste is predominantly perceived as an urban problem. The data gap on rural waste management obfuscates the scale of this challenge.

এই জনসংখ্যার কথা মাথায় রেখে সমাজকল্যাণমূলক প্রকল্প এবং জনসুবিধা পরিকল্পনা করা হয়নি। এখানে কেন এই পরিবর্তন প্রয়োজন।

Phaere is a smoked fish delicacy traditionally prepared by the Hanji, an indigenous fishing community in Kashmir. Here's why this tradition is fading.

In Maharashtra, poor sanitation facilities make bus depots unsafe for passengers. The lack of implementation of the POSH Act is making this worse.

Tibbi’s upgrade from a village to a municipality has been characterised by bureaucratic inefficiencies and more water and sanitation issues.

Residents felt that nonprofit efforts in Mumbai's Govandi had yielded little change. Now a citizen-led organisation is tackling civic issues and starting to win legal battles.

Satpuli in Pauri Garhwal has seen rapid infrastructure development over the last decade. This has exacerbated the town's already poor wastewater management.

Women are paying the price of the grim state of basic health, sanitation, and hygiene infrastructure in Assam’s flood-affected areas.

Women engaged in manual scavenging continue to face systemic discrimination and are denied access to alternative livelihoods. Concerted efforts must be taken to rehabilitate them.