The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
New Delhi : The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs on Thursday approved two changes in the Mega Power Policy 2009 to benefit more developers. To avail the benefits under the scheme, developers will be allowed to tie up 65 per cent of the installed capacity through competitive bidding and another …
To expand and remodel the rural water supply and sanitation facilities in waterlogged areas of Punjab, Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today approved a proposal of ~2,200 crore to be sent to the Union Government for recommending it to the World Bank under the rural water supply sanitation project, phase-2. …
The main objective of taking up CSR activities in the rural drinking water sector are as under: Provision of safe and potable drinking water in adequate quantity and within minimum distance to all at all times and to bring about an improvement in the general quality of life in the …
Tapping the Markets: Opportunities for Domestic Investments in Water and Sanitation for the Poor presents the results of a detailed examination of market opportunities for the domestic private sector in the provision of piped water and on-site sanitation services in rural and semi-urban areas and of the commercial, policy, and …
Social activist Jacqueline Lundquist tells Madhur Tankha that “in the U.S., people get drinking water even in their bathrooms” Jacqueline Lundquist, a social activist and the wife of the former United States Ambassador to India Richard Celeste, is now on an ambitious mission to provide unadulterated water to people living …
Nearly 88.5% of households in rural India have access to improved source of drinking water while the corresponding figure for urban India is 95%, says the latest National Sample Survey released on Tuesday. An improved drinking water source is one that is protected from outside contamination. Rural households in Kerala …
New data on the status of drinking water and sanitation released by the National Sample Survey Organisation on Tuesday indicated a far better state of affairs than that is detailed in the 2011 Census. Conducted just a year after the Census, the 69th round of the National Sample Survey found …
Sixty percent of rural households do not have access to toilet facility even after 66 years of independence Among the reasons that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) won electoral support in Delhi may have been its pledges to provide 700 litres of free drinking water each day along with a …
Assam has completed over 22,000 schemes under the National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP) between April 2010 and November this year. With regard to the total number of NRDWP schemes implemented over the past three and a half years, Assam ranks 11th among 35 States and Union Territories. According to …
Muree—Murtaza Javed Abbasi, Deputy Speaker National Assembly, and Takashi Katae, Deputy Chief of Mission/Minister Embassy of Japan, Islamabad, inaugurated Rural Water Supply Schemes for six villages of Union Councils Taret and Gooreeni. The scheme was funded by GGP Govt. of Japan and implemented by Society for Up-Gradation of Knowledge Health …
Aims to set up 600 water purifying plants in the country by 2014 National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard), along with the government of Karnataka, will promote water purifying plants throughout the State to provide clean drinking water in rural areas at more affordable rates, said G. R. …
Relatively new and emerging categories of human settlements, such as small towns, may require a different set of service arrangements to facilitate the provision of water. In this paper, Marieke Adank presents the main features and understanding of what constitutes "small towns" to determine the most appropriate water service arrangement …
Maharashtra cabinet today approved Rs 1,444 crore project for supply of water in the rural areas. The project, called ‘Jalsurajya — 2’, will be implemented in cooperation with the World Bank, which will bear 70 per cent of the project cost. Taxi permits Meanwhile in another development, Chief Minister Prithviraj …
The Karnataka High Court on Wednesday asked top officials of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh to appear before it on Thursday to find an immediate as well as longterm solution to the water problem in Pavagada taluk, Tumkur. “This is a human problem. These things have to be solved at the …
The National Drinking Water Advocacy and Communication Strategy Framework 2013-2022 provides the “framework” to guide the advocacy and communication interventions in the implementation of the NRDWP. It aims to provide strategic directions for planning, designing and implementing advocacy and communication activities at national, state and district level. The objective is …
Houses across 20 villages will benefit from the end of next month Dakshina Kannada’s first multi-village water supply project which will supply drinking water to 20 villages across eight gram panchayats in Mangalore taluk is expected to be operational by the year-end. The project envisages lifting of water from Shambhavi …
The Nashik Zilla Parishad (ZP) will distribute 22,974 field testing kits (FTK) to upper primary schools in the district, enabling them to check the quality of water being supplied to their tanks and taps to prevent waterborne diseases. The state government has decided to supply the FTKs to Zilla Parishad …
With an emphasis on reducing water wastage and increasing water production in the state, the PWD is optimistic of providing 24X7 water supply to the entire state by the end of 2014. The department also plans to spend around Rs 100crore to replace the existing pipeline. PWD minister Ramkrishna 'Sudin' …
Raising hackles amidst the political turbulence over the division of state, chief minster N Kiran Kumar Reddy on Saturday doled out a Rs 5,800 crore-worth water project to his home district Chittoor. The CM, who was in Tirumala for the inauguration of Brahmotsavams, sanctioned the water project covering the entire …
Only 18% Have All 3 Facilities; Fall In Agriculture’s GDP Share: Report One in five rural households has none of three basic facilities — drinking water, electricity and sanitation — while only about 18% have access to all three. The India Rural Development Report 2012-13 released by Jairam Ramesh on …
