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40000 committees constituted
Over 40 thousand Village Water and Sanitation Committees have been constituted in the state under Total Sanitation Campaign. Importantly, all the members of the committees are women.
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100 villages declared as open defecation free
Collector to appoint a resource person each for every 2 mandals. Nellore: As many as 100 villages in SPSR Nellore district were declared as open defecation free (ODF) areas as part of Swachh Bharat
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A budget without bias
Arun Jaitley will be presenting his maiden Budget on July 10. Technically, it will be a budget for eight months only but such occasions have been used earlier in dramatic fashion. A similar Budget presented
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Jairam likely to rope in King Khan, Vidya for sanitation campaign
Shahrukh Khan and Vidya Balan will come together, not to promote a commercial venture, but to act as brand ambassadors to fight open defecation, propagate sanitation and appeal to the people to get clean. Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh, who also holds the portfolio of drinking water and sanitation, has broached the idea with the actors, and their response has been positive.
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Political class has been neglecting sanitation: Jairam Ramesh
Linking the open defecation problem with malnutrition, Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh today said the Indian political class has been neglecting sanitation and made a strong pitch for bringing
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Epidemiology of intestinal polyparasitism among Orang Asli school children in rural Malaysia
This cross-sectional study aimed to investigate the current prevalence and risk factors associated with intestinal polyparasitism (the concurrent infection with multiple intestinal parasite species) among
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Sanitation, water supply and hygiene in urban informal settlements: Papua New Guinea
In 2012 Papua New Guinea undertook a national Service Delivery Assessment of rural water, rural sanitation, urban water and urban sanitation services to identify coverage and targets, how well services
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Manual for preparation of detailed project report for rural piped water supply schemes
The Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation administers the National Rural Drinking Water programme (NRDWP), and the Total Sanitation Campaign through which the technical as well as financial support
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World Toilet Day celebrated at Puri
District Water Sanitation Mission in collaboration with Water Aid India celebrated the World Toilet Day here yesterday. Local MLA Mr Maheswar Mohanty, collector Mr Bhaskar Jyoti Sharma, Water Sanitation Mission chairman Mr Sankarsana Parida, Puri municipality chairman Mrs Shanti Lata Pradhan, and more than 600 villagers from different gram panchayats of the district participated in the meet.
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Sri Lankan President promises safe drinking water to rural communities
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse said today that the government has correctly understood the needs of the people in rural areas and promised to provide safe drinking water for the rural communities
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5 lakh more toilets to be built under NBA
Of the 15.51 lakh households in Uttarakhand under the Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan (NBA), 10.41 lakh have been provided with toilets. The State’s toilet coverage under the programme is about 67 per cent. Work
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30 new activities brought under NREGS
The government on Tuesday informed the Lok Sabha about the expansion of the scope of activities permitted under the rural job guarantee scheme by including 30 new activities. These will supplement agricultural
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Bio-toilets gather dust in Bhadrak villages
Bhadrak: The much-talked bio-toilets have found few takers in Bhadrak district. The ambitious project meant to free the country from open defecation was launched by the ministry of rural development at Dhamra in Bhadrak. Minister for chemical and fertilizers Srikant Jena had inaugurated it in the presence of Union minister Jairam Ramesh on June 24, 2012.
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Handbook on technical options for on-site sanitation
Provision of adequate sanitation to all communities has been a major challenge in India. This is also due to the fact such communities have full spectrum of variations in sociocultural and economic conditions.
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Environmental assessment and environmental management framework for Jalanidhi-2
This report deals with environmental assessment and environmental management framework for the World Bank supported Jalanidhi-2 programme of the Kerala Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Agency (KRWSA),
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Sanitation and externalities: evidence from early childhood health in rural India
This World Bank paper uses a sample of children under 48 months in rural areas of India from the Third Round of District Level Household Survey 2007–08 and finds evidence of positive and significant direct benefits and concave positive external effects for both improved sanitation and fixed-point defecation.
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Provision of Potable Drinking Water in Mountains through participatory Springshed Management
<p>In accordance with Hon'ble Prime Minister's vision for an integrated approach in the water sector and an overall water secure nation, the Government of India has recently restructured and subsumed
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Jairam urges Manmohan to give highest priority to sanitation
Calling for urgent measures to provide sanitation facility across the country, Union Minister of Rural Development Jairam Ramesh has pointed to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that in addition to malnutrition
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Training prog on village health and sanitation committee
A two-day training programme was organised in collaboration with NRHM and UNICEF on January 11 and 12 at Swahid Bhavan, Lakhimpur for the volunteers of Nawa Bihan Samaj (NBS) for monitoring the trainingprogramme on Village Health and Sanitation Committee (VHSC) in the village level formed by National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), Assam.