Question raised in Lok Sabha on Sanitation Standard, 09/03/2017. The Swachh Bharat Mission (Gramin) (SBM-G) entails freedom from open defecation and management of solid and liquid waste. The SBM-G guidelines
Undi, Aug. 29: Nirmal Grama Puraskar team appreciated the maintenance of sanitation in rural areas. The team comprising sanitation co-ordinator A. Shanmugam and arasampatti village panchayat sarpanch S. Chinakarpan from Kudikotti district from Tamil Nadu inspected the Pedapulleru village of this mandal on Friday.
It is not uncommon in rural India to find garbage strewn around or people relieving themselves in the open due to the absence of toilets. But many villages in Madhya Pradesh are a welcome change and are known as
Despite significant efforts to increase latrine ownership, open defecation remains a challenge across rural India. Structural and economic barriers cannot sufficiently explain the stubborn persistence
As many as 103 gram panchayats will be presented with the Nirmal Gram Puraskar award by Governor H R Bhardwaj on Saturday. The gram panchayats have been selected for the award as they were “100 per cent defecation free”, said Sanjeev Kumar, Principal Secretary, Rural Development and Panchayat Raj. Addressing the media along with RDPR Minister K S Eshwarappa, Kumar said three districts in Karnataka, including Dakshina Kannada had been declared completely free of defecation.
An Indian woman has been rewarded for her ‘bold’ decision to leave her marital home within days of the wedding to protest the lack of a toilet in the household, an official said on Thursday. Anita Narre
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today launched the Global Sanitation Fund (GSF) programme at a function organised by the NR Management Consultants (NRMC), the executing agency, at the NEDFi House here, an official release said.
Ranchi, July 24: The Saranda villagers’ wish of getting piped water and toilets at their houses may actually get fulfilled. Engineer-in-chief of the state drinking water and sanitation department (DWSD)
NEW DELHI, Sep 18 (IANS): Assam has been allocated $2.5 million by a UN body to help improve hygiene in rural areas, stressing on the economic gains that would follow "when people spend less money on preventable
<p>Since SACOSAN-III, held in New Delhi in November 2008, India has continued to accord priority to sanitation at the national, state and local government levels. This has resulted in continued improvements in access to sanitation, increased attention to usage of toilets and
A CORRESPONDENT JORHAT, Jan 5
<p> CHENNAI: Expediting her efforts to see a litter-free State capital very soon, Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Monday set a three-month deadline for cleaning up the entire Chennai and its suburban areas.</p>
Colombo Declaration to provide increased access to sanitation adopted at the end of SACOSAN IV The SAARC sanitation summit has decided to establish a national body in each country to
In the context of the declaration of the plan to achieve Swachh Bharat by 2019, the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation has prepared a note on the Swachh Bharat Mission. Swachh Bharat Abhiyan: The
It may be hard to believe, but it is true. Anyone travelling the length of the rural belt of Delhi that stretches from Badarpur border in South-East Delhi all the way to Narela in the northern periphery of the city, will not find a public toilet along the way. The reason being: all these years no one constructed any. And while many believe the rural population knows best how to use the fields and forests for answering the call of nature, such an approach has not helped the cause of rural women, for whom not a single public toilet exists.
India is experiencing paradigm shift in rural sanitation with the launch of the Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC). Mobilisation, motivation and innovative financial incentives are bringing about positive sanitation and hygiene behaviour changes amongst rural communities.
ITANAGAR, Nov 24: Governor Gen (Retd) J J Singh gave away the Nirmal Gram Puraskar (NGP) awards to ten Gram Panchayats in a glittering ceremony, organized by the Public Health Engineering Department, at the banquet hall of Raj Bhavan here today.
The Twelfth Plan proposes a fundamental change in the principles, approach and strategies of water management in India. This paradigm shift was the outcome of a new and inclusive process of plan formulation,
Amritsar and Bathinda have taken the lead in village sanitation if the commendation of the Government of India for Nirmal Gram Purskar 2010-11 is any indication.
The ‘Nirmal Bharat Yatra’ to promote the message of making the country open defecation-free and ensuring proper sanitation in rural areas will begin from October 3, Union Minister Jairam Ramesh said on Friday. Accompanied by actor Vidya Balan, the brand ambassador of the Ministry’s campaign for improving sanitation, Mr. Ramesh said the 2,000-km yatra will rope in people from all sections, including school children, to pass on the message.
