{"id":135657,"date":"2026-10-19T13:37:04","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T12:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smeclimatehub.org\/?p=135657"},"modified":"2026-10-19T13:37:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T12:37:07","slug":"the-business-of-better-sanitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smeclimatehub.org\/ar\/the-business-of-better-sanitation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Business of Better Sanitation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style>\nblockquote{\n    background-color: #298187;\n    color: white;\n    padding: 1.25rem 1.25rem 0.1rem 1.25rem;\n    margin: 0px auto 0.5em auto;\n}\n<\/style>\n\n\n\n<style>\nblockquote{\n    background-color: #298187;\n    color: white;\n    padding: 1.25rem 1.25rem 0.1rem 1.25rem;\n    margin: 0px auto 0.5em auto;\n}\n<\/style>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What if solving one of the world&#8217;s most basic needs could also build a successful business?<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For Sanjay and Namita Banka, that question has shaped more than a decade of work in water sanitation and hygiene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When they founded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bankabio.com\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.bankabio.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Banka BioLoo<\/a> in 2012, they set out to make sanitation more sustainable, affordable and accessible. What started with bio-toilets has grown into a business spanning sanitation, hygiene, wastewater treatment and water management, serving communities, institutions, and some of India&#8217;s largest organizations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The business has grown dramatically along the way, from <strong>\u20b970 lakh (US$70,000) in revenue in its first year (2012) to over \u20b970 crores (US$7 million) in 2026<\/strong>. Its solutions have reached <strong>more than 2,000 schools<\/strong>, helped recycle <strong>more than 5 billion litres of water<\/strong>, and provided livelihoods to <strong>more than 1,500 young people from low-income families<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But perhaps the most interesting part of Banka Bio&#8217;s story is not what the company does itself. It is how many other people and businesses its work reaches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"478\" src=\"https:\/\/smeclimatehub.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/15-MiQ-1024x478.jpg\" alt=\"BioLoos installed in rural schools by BankaBio\" class=\"wp-image-135658\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smeclimatehub.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/15-MiQ-1024x478.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/smeclimatehub.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/15-MiQ-300x140.jpg 300w, https:\/\/smeclimatehub.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/15-MiQ-767x358.jpg 767w, https:\/\/smeclimatehub.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/15-MiQ-1536x717.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/smeclimatehub.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/15-MiQ.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>BioLoos installed in rural schools by BankaBio<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Turning purpose into a business that can scale<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first major breakthrough came from Indian Railways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2012, the company set up a manufacturing unit to produce bio-tanks for railway coaches. A year later, it secured its first railway service contract. As Indian Railways embarked on a major drive to improve sanitation across its network, Banka Bio grew alongside it installing, servicing, and maintaining bio-toilets across the network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For a young SME, the railway network became a powerful proving ground. It showed that a relatively small business could take an environmental solution, and make it work across a vast and complex infrastructure system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But for Namita, sanitation was never simply an infrastructure problem. As a woman entrepreneur working in the sector, she had seen how deeply the absence of safe sanitation could affect women&#8217;s security and dignity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cIt matters to women across the world. It matters to me. It\u2019s about the dignity that every woman deserves.\u201d <\/em><br>&#8211; <em>Namita Banka, Managing Director, Banka Bio<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That perspective has remained part of the company&#8217;s story as it has grown, from railway coaches to schools, workplaces and communities. It also opened the door to a much wider market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The SME has since taken that experience into a much wider market, working with some of India\u2019s biggest corporates and public sector organizations, including <strong>GAIL, Havells, Indian Space Research Organisation, Shapoorji Pallonji, L&amp;T, Godrej, Reliance, My Home Group<\/strong>, among others, as well as government agencies, schools and communities. Its solutions have been used in settings, ranging from factories and construction sites to remote and worker accommodations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The problem may be universal. The solutions have to be available where people actually live and work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Building a business around impact<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The business is built around helping other organizations manage a fundamental resource more responsibly. A factory can improve its water and sanitation infrastructure. A company can provide better facilities for its workforce. A large organization can extend water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) practices into its supply chain. A school can provide children with safer sanitation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sanitation is a vital sustainability issue because untreated waste poisons local water supplies and hampers community development. Through its work with corporate partners, <a href=\"https:\/\/wash4work.org\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/wash4work.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">including through the WASH4Work initiative<\/a>, Banka Bio has helped bring water, sanitation and hygiene into conversations about responsible business, rather than treating them solely as sustainability, ESG or CSR issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company has also worked with many businesses through CSR programs to bring sanitation to schools and underserved communities, including a 5-year partnership with Havells.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In other words, <strong>the business grows by helping other organizations solve problems that matter to people and the planet.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That is a powerful model for an SME in the climate transition: not simply reducing its own environmental impact but creating products and services that enable others to do better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Banka Bio has also shown that an impact-led business can be commercially ambitious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2018, it became the first sanitation company to raise <strong>\u20b912.62 crore (US$2 million)<\/strong> <strong>through an SME IPO and list on the NSE&#8217;s SME platform, Emerge<\/strong>. Two years later, it received the first tranche of a <strong>US$1 million<\/strong> <strong>impact investment from WaterEquity<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For Sanjay and Namita, the lesson is straightforward: solving an environmental or social problem does not have to sit outside the business case. It can be the business case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Showing up early<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That belief also explains why Banka Bio was among the first group of Indian SMEs to <a href=\"https:\/\/smeclimatehub.org\/sme-climate-commitment\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/smeclimatehub.org\/sme-climate-commitment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">make the <strong>SME Climate Commitment<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For Sanjay, climate leadership is not something reserved for the largest corporations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNo business, large or small, can afford to be climate complacent. SMEs have an important role to play, and we need to lead on climate action in our own spheres.\u201d<br>&#8211; Sanjay Banka, Executive Chairman, Banka BioLoo Limited<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For Banka Bio, joining the SME Climate Hub was a way to make that commitment visible, connect with other climate-conscious businesses, and bring an Indian SME perspective into a wider conversation about business and climate action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is a role Sanjay has increasingly taken beyond his own company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>From building solutions to shaping the conversation<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Banka Bio&#8217;s work first brought Sanjay onto the global stage in 2015, when the company was selected as one of <strong>14 innovators from submissions worldwide<\/strong> to present at the UN Solutions Summit in New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/smeclimatehub.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/UN_SolutionsSummit_Banka-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Sanjay Banka presents at the UN Solutions Summit in New York.\" class=\"wp-image-135667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smeclimatehub.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/UN_SolutionsSummit_Banka-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/smeclimatehub.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/UN_SolutionsSummit_Banka-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/smeclimatehub.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/UN_SolutionsSummit_Banka-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/smeclimatehub.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/UN_SolutionsSummit_Banka-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/smeclimatehub.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/UN_SolutionsSummit_Banka.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Sanjay Banka presents at the UN Solutions Summit in New York.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since then, his work has increasingly bridged business, policy and the global water and sanitation community. He became the first private-sector representative to join the Steering Committee of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sanitationandwaterforall.org\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.sanitationandwaterforall.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sanitation and Water for All<\/a>, a multi-stakeholder partnership; and today serves on the Board of <a href=\"https:\/\/humanright2water.org\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/humanright2water.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Human Right 2 Water<\/a> and the Steering Committee of the <a href=\"https:\/\/gwopa.unhabitat.org\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/gwopa.unhabitat.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Global Water Operators&#8217; Partnerships Alliance (GWOPA)<\/a>, among other global positions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These roles give Sanjay an opportunity to bring a perspective that is sometimes missing from global policy discussions: <strong>what it takes to build and deliver solutions in the real world.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For an entrepreneur, it is a remarkable journey, from solving a practical sanitation challenge in India, to helping shape the conversations around water and sustainable development globally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Looking ahead<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Banka Bio&#8217;s ambition has grown considerably since those first railway bio-toilets. The company now aims to reach <strong>10 million+ people globally<\/strong>, with sustainable water, sanitation and hygiene solutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the SME Climate Hub community, its journey offers a different way of thinking about climate leadership. It doesn&#8217;t always begin with a company trying to become a \u2018green business\u2019. Sometimes it begins with an entrepreneur asking how to solve a problem better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And sometimes, the business built around that solution can help many others become part of the change, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if solving one of the world&#8217;s most basic needs could also build a successful business? For Sanjay and Namita Banka, that question has shaped more than a decade of work in water sanitation and hygiene. When they founded Banka BioLoo in 2012, they set out to make sanitation more sustainable, affordable and accessible. 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