Government of India calls for submissions of ideas and innovations to manage/dispose sanitary waste

With increase in education and awareness levels around Menstrual Health and Hygiene, more and more women and adolescent girls in the country are switching to safe sanitary options to manage their menstrual cycles. However, there is still no formal waste management system of sanitary waste. Often these are disposed off in fields, water bodies, flushed in toilets or dumped along with the regular solid waste.

Now citizens, organizations, innovators and universities can be engaged with the government of India for better governance If you have an idea or innovation to manage and dispose sanitary waste, you can send in your submissions to Swachh Bharat Hackathon before 25th August 2017!

Link for submission form,criteria and other details:

https://innovate.mygov.in/sbh_category/technological-solutions-for-safe-...

Link to Swachh Bharat Hackathon:

https://innovate.mygov.in/swachhathon-1-0/

Swachhata Hackathon is an attempt to crowd source solutions for some of the pressing problems faced by the country in Sanitation and Hygiene and the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation is invitingstudents from schools and colleges, professionals, organizations, startups and others to come up with exciting, innovative, novel and viable solutions in the categories like

a) Monitoring usage of toilets

b)Triggering behaviour change

c)Toilet Technologies in Difficult terrains

d)Working solutions for maintenance and operations of school toilets.

e)Technological solutions for safe disposal of menstrual waste

f)Solution for early decomposition of faecal matter

This is truly a citizen centric platform to empower people to connect to the government and contribute towards good governance.