“Ensuring Water and Sanitation: The SHG way” written by Manu Prakash in 2005 and published by Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation, Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India is a unique experiment where women were mobilized in groups and helped to acquire masonry and plumbing skills for constructing the household toilets and repairing of water and sanitation facilities on an entrepreneurial basis.

The case study titled “Nirmal Gram Puraskar: A reward for achieving quality of life” has been written Alok Kumar in India Infrastructure Report, published in 2007 by United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), discuss about an innovative scheme called Nirmal Gram Puraskar (NGP) was initiated under Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) on 2 October 2003 to motivate Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) to promote rural sanitation on a mass scale.