Criteria for awarding Nirmal Gram Puraskar changed
The Union Rural Development Ministry has changed the criteria for awarding Nirmal Gram Puraskar to gram panchayats by revising the slabs for classification of population and amount of award
The Union Rural Development Ministry has changed the criteria for awarding Nirmal Gram Puraskar to gram panchayats by revising the slabs for classification of population and amount of award
The Government will adopt 1,000 villages every year to bring about comprehensive development in rural areas, Karnataka Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy, has said. The programme will be implemented
The police opened fire at Soyla village in Rajasthan's Tonk district on Monday, killing five villagers, including a woman, on the spot. After teargas and lathicharge failed to quell a violent mob
The president of the Delhi unit of Bharatiya Janata Party, Harsh Vardhan, demanded on Monday that the Chief Minister issue a White Paper on the arrangements made for cleaning all the small and big
On the last day of CSD-13, during the the High Level Segment on
The 13th session of the un Commission for Sustainable Development (csd), which steers the development agenda agreed upon at the Earth Summit held in Rio in 1992, was a damp squib. The 11-day meet
<font class="UCASE">chinese</font>prime minister Wen Jiabao's four-day visit to India from April 9-12, 2005 opened hitherto unexplored vistas of friendship between the two nations, albeit driven by economic and strategic considerations. The world's most populous nations established the India-China Strategic and Cooperative Partnership for Peace and Prosperity, a giant step for improving bilateral relations.
<p>Mumbai’s Slum Sanitation Programme that seeks community responsibility and its involvement in the setting up of sanitation facilities in living areas holds out important lessons for similar collaborative endeavours between the government, funding agencies, civil society organisations and the affected community.
Millennium Development Goals
The Rs 300-crore Asian Development Bank (ADB) loan to the Corporation of Cochin, Kerala, will be used for improving drainage, sewerage, solid waste management and transportation considering the need
State Human Rights Commission member S. Varghese has directed the Kerala State Government to drop the move to drain the Vellayani lake for agricultural purposes. The commission directed Kerala
Can access to safe drinking water be achieved without access to basic sanitation?
<p>The outward expansion of larger metros, gradual changes in land use and occupations have transformed the rural hinterland into semi-urban or ‘peri-urban’ areas.
This manual is a comprehensive documentation of localised community-level approaches in urban wastewater management. Besides providing an overview of eco-sanitation and decentralised wastewater treatment technologies, it also captures the emerging trends in this sector.
Taking note of a special writ petition filed by the local MLA, Dr Rajiv Bindal, about various anomalies in the laying of sewage pipes in the town, the High Court of Himachal Pradesh directed the
<font color=red>Problem:</font> Terrain forbids water supply systems that work in plains; <font color=red>Status:</font> Water crisis in peak season every year; <font color=red>Challenge:</font> Develop decentralised water supply systems
<font color=red>Problem:</font> Lack of space for garbage disposal; inadequate sewerage; <font color=red>Status:</font> Garbage disposed on hill slopes ends in streams/rivers; <font color=red>Challenge:</font> Introduce decentralised technologies for wast
<font color=red>Problem:</font> Tall buildings risky in high seismic zones; <font color=red>Status:</font> Hill stations are getting concretised and growing vertically; <font color=red>Challenge:</font> Use local construction material; regulate traffic
Planners must stop looking down at hill stations
<font color=red>Problem:</font> Tourist influx too large; earnings flow downhill; <font color=red>Status:</font> Residents forced to share meagre facilities with tourists; <font color=red>Challenge:</font> Regulate tourist flow; channelise funds for devel