Deogarh may soon earn open defecation-free tag
Bhubaneswar: As many as 1,842 villages in the state have been declared open defecation-free so far. This apart, the Odisha goverment has also announced 113 gram panchayats and a block as being free of
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Raise awareness on rural sanitation, States told
Aware that convincing people, particularly in rural India, to build and use toilets in their homes, is a cumbersome task, the Centre has asked the State Governments to rope in various departments like
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Question raised in Lok Sabha on Households without Toilet Facilities, 20/07/2017
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Households without Toilet Facilities, 20/07/2017. State/UT-wise, percentage of households without toilet facility in rural areas of the country including Jharkhand as on
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Lack of sanitation a challenge for rural India
ALLAHABAD: A five-day training programme titled Rural Sanitation Technology and Wastewater Management was inaugurated at seminar Hall situated at Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, (MNNIT),
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'Toilets in all Bengal rural homes by 2019'
The West Bengal government has set a target to construct toilets across all villages of the state by March 2019 to enable open defecation free (ODF) rural Bengal, an official said. "By March 2019, we
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Nearly 5,000 gram panchayats open-defecation free in Rajasthan
JAIPUR: In the last three-and-a-half years, some 4,973 gram panchayats have become open-defecation free and 58.26 lakh toilets have been constructed in the state under the Clean India Mission (rural).
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Question raised in Lok Sabha on ODF Villages, 21/12/2017
Question raised in Lok Sabha on ODF Villages, 21/12/2017. As on 19.12.2017, 2,93,753 villages have been declared Open Defecation Free (ODF) and out of which 1, 81,771 villages have been verified for ODF.
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Perceptions: understanding on-site sanitation system choices in large dense villages in India
This report aims to explore the nuances of the prevalence of on-site sanitation systems in large and dense villages of India. Villages which have a population of 1000 persons or more and a density of greater
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Effectiveness of a rural sanitation programme on diarrhoea, soil-transmitted helminth infection, and child malnutrition in Odisha, India: a cluster-randomised trial
<p>A third of the 2·5 billion people worldwide without access to improved sanitation live in India, as do two-thirds of the 1·1 billion practising open defecation and a quarter of the 1·5
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Linking service delivery processes and outcomes in rural sanitation: findings from 56 districts in India
A new WSP report, Linking Service Delivery Processes and Outcomes in Rural Sanitation: Findings from 56 Districts in India, finds that when higher quality of service delivery processes are adopted at the
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Swachh Survekshan Grameen-2018: framework
The Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation (MDWS) has commissioned “Swachh Sarvekshan Grameen-2018” (SSG, 2018) through an independent survey agency to develop ranking of all districts of India on the
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Churu figures in top 10 clean districts in plains
Churu is among the top 10 cleanest districts in plains, according to the first-ever survey of rural areas across the country. The survey was conducted by Quality Council of India (QCI) on behalf of
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MGNREGS to include rural sanitation
India is the world's largest open air lavatory with over 620 million people practising open defecation in the country. Seeking to address this persisting problem, the UPA government has widened the scope of its flagship Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) to include works relating to rural sanitation in collaboration with the Nirmal Bharat Abhiyaan (NBA).
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Govt plans hike in funds for rural toilets
Moving a step towards Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’ target, the Rural Development ministry on Tuesday proposed a hike in the allocation for constructing toilets in rural areas,
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Swachh Bharat Mission(Grameen) Phase-II Guidelines
<p>With the key objective of SBMG Phase I attained, the Government of India renewed its commitment to further enhance the sanitation and hygiene status in rural areas with the approval of Phase II of the
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Toilet in house made mandatory for contesting in Bihar panchayat polls
The Bihar legislative Assembly on Wednesday passed a legislation incorporating a provision making it mandatory for candidates contesting panchayat polls in Bihar to have toilets at their houses. The
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56 lakh homes have no toilets in rural Maharashtra
Prime Minister Narendra Modi may be strongly pitching for the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, but the sanitation conditions in rural Maharashtra present a horrific reality. About 56 lakh households in rural Maharashtra
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Question raised in Lok Sabha on Villages Declared as ODF, 03/08/2017
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Villages Declared as ODF, 03/08/2017. A statement regarding State/UT-wise, Open Defecation Free (ODF) declared and ODF verified villages by the respective State Governments,
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Is Swachch Bharat failing? 11 village heads threaten suicide
Caught in a debt trap after constructing toilets under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Swachh Bharat Mission (SMB), sarpanchs of eleven villages in Kanker district of tribal Bastar region have threatened
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Namibia: Rural Namibia Gets 2 600 Pit Latrines
THE AGRICULTURE ministry has constructed 2 645 ventilated double pit toilets at a cost of N$108 million in various regions of the country since 2014. The agriculture ministry's spokesperson Margaret