SHRI LinkedIn · Jul 2026
SHRI said it inaugurated six new toilet facilities in June 2026, including five in government schools, and pointed to upcoming conference participation.
Sanitation and Health Rights in India (SHRI) fights alongside communities to end open defecation as a key step in an ongoing struggle for health equity and social and economic justice. The company has built a toilet that converts poop into methane gas that powers a water filtration system that crea
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Overview
SHRI (Sanitation and Health Rights in India) is a rights-based nonprofit WASH organization that renovates, staffs, and digitally monitors shared sanitation facilities for underserved communities, schools, health centers, and markets in India. Public sources describe the organization as co-founded in 2010, while company profiles list 2015 as the founded year.
Primary product
Professionally managed shared sanitation facilities plus monitoring/operations services
Founded
2015
Headquarters
PKT-D, Sarita Vihar, South Delhi, Delhi 110076, India
Team size
100+ full-time staff publicly stated on the website; LinkedIn company snippets also surface 1–10 employees
Industry
Public health / WASH
Sub-industry
Sanitation services; shared sanitation operations
Offices
PKT-D, Sarita Vihar, South Delhi, Delhi 110076, India
Bihar, India
Business model
grant-funded nonprofit service delivery
government/community partnerships
research and evidence generation
public-service operations
Funding
Stage
grant-funded nonprofit
Total raised
$1.8M
Latest round
Grant · Mar 2026
Latest amount
$1.5M
People & investors
Leadership
Anoop Jain
Executive Director
Vice President, Operations & Strategy
Director of Research and Evaluation
Prabin Kumar
Country Director
Chandan Kumar
Director, Bihar
Program Director
Ranjit Kumar
O&M Manager, Jharkhand
Anita Kumari
O&M Supervisor
Lajwanti Devi
M&E Supervisor
Kundan Kumar
M&E Supervisor, Bihar
Work & culture
Community-led, professionally managed, rights-based, and data-driven; the team emphasizes local staffing, daily digital monitoring, and continuous operational improvement.
Compensation
Public evidence points to fair wages for frontline staff, but no salary bands or formal compensation policy were published.
Benefits
fair wages
Product & market
Pricing
Free at point of use; financed through grants, donations, and government/community partnerships. The early model also sold treated water locally to help support operations.
Differentiators
- —Rights-based approach to sanitation
- —Renovates and manages existing shared facilities instead of only building new toilets
- —Real-time digital monitoring and public dashboard
- —Community-led staffing with fair wages
- —Evidence generation to support shared sanitation as a viable model
- —Integrated sanitation/water-purification model in its earlier phase
Technology
KoboToolbox
Dalgo
automatic people-counting machines
public online dashboard
daily issues digital forms
Wix
Customers
Underserved communities using shared sanitation facilities
State and district governments
Schools
Health centers
Markets and other public spaces
Funders and donors
Community members in Bihar and Jharkhand
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
Approximately $250K-$500K based on public nonprofit filings and budget references
Estimated monthly visits
2.3K
Traffic estimate as of Jul 2026
Latest news
SHRI LinkedIn · May 2026
SHRI highlighted research showing leakage in sanitation systems, especially after rainfall, reinforcing the need for strong O&M and real-time monitoring.
Boston University School of Public Health · Apr 2026
Explains SHRI’s role as a research-and-service platform; notes recent funding from Rippleworks and growth from 18 to 32 facilities across several states.
Rippleworks · Mar 2026
Rippleworks announced a $1.5M grant to SHRI, supporting its work to maintain and monitor community sanitation facilities in rural India.
The Better India · Nov 2025
Highlights SHRI’s shift toward renovating and professionally managing shared sanitation, its use of real-time digital tracking, and its 2025–28 strategy to standardize and scale the model.
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