Swachh Survekshan Grameen 2022
Telangana won the first prize under the large states category under the Swachh Survekshan Grameen (SSG) 2022 which looks into the sanitation status of rural areas. Haryana was in the second position while
Open Defecation
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India processes 24 per cent of solid waste generated: Govt data
NEW DELHI: Nearly 24 per cent of the solid waste generated in the country was being processed as on January 31, according to data presented by the government in Parliament. Out of over 1.43 lakh tonnes
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Nigeria: Over 46 Million Nigerians Defecate Openly- Govt
Federal Ministry of Water Resources has disclosed that Nigeria has the highest number of persons, who practice open defecation with an estimate of over 46 million. Minister of Water Resources, Suleiman
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Open defecation in rural India, 2015–16 levels and trends in NFHS–4
The Government of India’s NFHS–4 offers the best new data on open defecation in rural India to be eleased in over a decade. Although open defecation has become less common than it was 10 years ago, it
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80% of Zambezi households have no toilets
A REPORT released by the Namibia Intercensal Demographic Survey in 2016 shows that about 80% of households in the Zambezi region have no toilets, forcing residents to use the bush, riverbeds and fields
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Major challenges for govt to build 72,000 toilets in 8 months
PANJIM: Non-availability of land, absence of sewer lines, no regular supply of water and lack of willingness amongst people are some of the major challenges before the Manohar Parrikar-led coalition government
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Community-led Total Sanitation: A mixed-methods systematic review of evidence and its quality
<p>Community-led total sanitation (CLTS) is a widely applied rural behavior change approach for ending open defecation. However, evidence of its impact is unclear. Researchers conducted a systematic review
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Nigeria: Katsina, Unicef Tackle Open Defecation Through Shawn
Katsina — UNICEF's chief, Water and Sanitation Section in Nigeria, Zaid Jurji, has said, Nigeria is ranked third when it comes to open defecation and something drastically must be done to halt the trend.
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Himachal missed being first ODF state due to bad politics: CM
DHARAMSHALA: Chief minister Jairam Thakur during his address at CSK Agricultural University revealed that he had worked hard to make Himachal first open defecation free (ODF) state during his stint as
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Toilet, ek pain katha in Jharkhand villages
When the Union government nudged them to build a toilet, almost all the families in Jharkhand's Dulmi block complied. But many of them continue to defecate in the open even today. On paper, Dulmi in Ramgarh
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India will be open-defecation free before Lok Sabha polls: Govt
NEW DELHI: Every household in India will get a proper toilet and the entire country will be open-defecation free (ODF) much before the Modi government faces election next year, top government functionaries