100pc sanitation coverage sought
Speakers at a function on Monday stressed the need for achieving 100 percent sanitation coverage to ensure a better and disease- free healthy society. "Importance should be given on creating much awareness
Speakers at a function on Monday stressed the need for achieving 100 percent sanitation coverage to ensure a better and disease- free healthy society. "Importance should be given on creating much awareness
Village Water and Sanitation Committees increase user fee BHUBANESWAR: Even as rural Orissa is struggling to cope with scorching heat and acute drinking water crisis, rising power cost has made life miserable for those, who had even drinking water sources available at their doorstep.
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Contamination of Ground Water, 10/03/2017. Diseases such as Cholera, Acute Diarrhoeal Diseases (Dysentery and Diarrhea), Enteric Fever (Typhoid) and Viral Hepatitis A &
Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh on Friday said public health system in the country had “collapsed”, noting that even poorer countries like Bangladesh and Kenya have superior health indicators.
Wants To Stop States From Hijacking Credit New Delhi: The Union rural development ministry has decided to ape Planning Commission’s discussion with states for annual finances to send a stronger message
Management of solid or liquid wastes in rural areas is much easier than in urban areas due to the fact that there are no highly contaminated industrial wastes. In rural areas, most of the wastes can be
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Water Treatment Plants, 03/05/2016. As per the information furnished by the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation (MoDWS), the details of funds allocated, released and
Criticised for not doing enough to tackle the spread of Japanese Encephalitis (JE) and Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) in parts of eastern Uttar Pradesh, where hundreds of children die or are disabled
Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) investments are widely seen as essential for improving health in early childhood. However, the experimental literature on WASH interventions identifies inconsistent
In this paper Marieke Adank presents the main features and understanding of what constitutes "small towns" to determine the most appropriate water service arrangement. It points to the challenges in developing a clear typology for small towns and assigning one single model for delivering small town water services.
A total sanitation programme across the country willbe takne up putting India among developed nations by 2020 informed Union Rural Development Minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh. Cleanliness and a
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Contamination of Ground Water, 09/02/2017. Ground water quality data generated by Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) during various scientific studies and ground water quality
The Drinking Water System (DWSS) and sanitation programme (WATSAN) (Bangladesh) of NGO Forum is getting popularity among the rural people of Tangail.
"Humne khule mein shauch jaane ki pratha chhod di hai (We have stopped defecating in the open)'. Painted against a whitewashed wall of the primary school in Baruki village, Uttar Pradesh's Bijnaur
Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Survey regarding manual scavenging, 24/07/2019. A National Survey has been carried out at the behest of NITI Aayog in 170 identified districts of 18 states on the basis
In a bid to provide safe drinking water, free from uranium and other heavy metals to the people especially in the rural areas, Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today directed the Water Supply and Sanitation Department to immediately get the water samples of the tube well-based schemes in all districts tested from the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, in a phased manner within the next six m
Five hundred and forty-five million mobile phones. 665 million people defecating in the open (the Chinese figure is 37 million). Courtesy, United Nations University, these numbers have grabbed headlines.
This study, commissioned by Triple-S, seeks to shed light on the progress in achieving scaled-up sustainable rural service delivery. It examines a number of service delivery models currently being implemented
Agriculture has been the engine of overall economic growth in developing countries, whereby agriculture significantly contributes to national GDPs, rural employment levels, household food security and
Arghyam, a non-profit foundation focusing on domestic water and sanitation, has published a document highlighting a water quality management (WQM) framework for rural areas. The framework lays out a phased