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 …
PARADIP: With wells running dry and water tables depleting throughout the State, this is feared to be a dry summer. The impact is already being felt in Jagatsinghpur district. Many villages here are facing acute water shortage. To address the issue, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik had laid foundation stone for …
The Housing Census 2011 has revealed that, although Uttarakhand has achieved considerable progress in provision of basic amenities, the number of mobile phone users in rural households is higher than the number of households with drinking water facility. The chief of Directorate of Census Operations, Uttarakhand, Sneh Lata Agarwal, said …
Bonus funds for executing rural water supply schemes The Centre has rewarded eight States for performing well in executing rural drinking water schemes during 2011-12. Union Minister of Rural Development Jairam Ramesh has decided to provide bonus funds to Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Tripura, Assam, Haryana, Punjab, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu …
Buoyed by the success of eight states including Tamil Nadu and Gujarat in implementing a scheme to provide safe drinking water to rural habitations, the Centre today allocated additional funds to them to give a further boost to the ambitious programme. The states which got bonuses were Tamil Nadu (Rs …
The government has completed various uplift projects in different areas of Kurram Agency to help improve the living standards of tribal people. The Political Administration has completed a drinking water supply system for the village of Pewar in Upper Kurram. The community is located close to the border with Afghanistan …
Drinking water is most essential for livelihoods and for other consumptions. Here, the drinking water supply in Rural India was chosen for the study. Due to over population, increase in drinking water consumption was arisen. Relevant data were collected from relevant Government departments. The data were analyzed and the objective …
To benefit habitations, schools, Adi Dravidar welfare hostels Rural water supply schemes in the district have been expedited to benefit habitations, schools, Adi Dravidar welfare hostels, and anganwadis considering the need to provide safe potable water to those locations. With summer setting in rapidly and the demand for drinking water …
GUWAHATI: The rural drinking water supply under the Central Government’s flagship Bharat Nirman programme has not proved to be a success in Assam in comparison to other States. This was revealed in the Economic Survey 2011-12 presented by the Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee in the Parliament before the presentation …
Idinthakarai: Encircled by a posse of armed policemen, Idinthakarai fishing hamlet on the southern Tamil Nadu coast has been virtually cut off from the mainland even as the villagers protesting against the Kudankulam nuclear plant refused to hold talks with two police officials who visited the protest site. Power supply …
New Delhi: Drinking water is supposed to be one of India’s success stories — the government says it met its Millennium Development Goal on water five years ahead of time, and that its rural drinking water mission has reached every uncovered habitation. Yet Census 2011 data shows that 20% of …
This study of the operation of the Accredited Social Health Activist programme of the National Rural Health Mission in one of the tribal blocks of Thane district in Maharashtra fi nds that incentives given to ASHAs generate a bias in their work activities and shift the attention of these community …
Groundwater levels plummet; dried up wells, boreswells and tanks a common sight A drinking water crisis looms large over Anantapur district. With the monsoon playing truant and the water from the Tungabhadra High Level canal mismanaged, groundwater levels around the district have plummeted to depths unheard of before. Dried up …
The WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation (JMP) reports every two years on progress towards the drinking-water and sanitation target under Millennium Development Goal 7. This target calls for halving the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation between 1990 …
The revised National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP) Guidelines issued by Rajiv Gandhi National Drinking Water Mission, Department of Drinking Water & Sanitation has focus on adequate water supply in quantity and quality, to each rural household on a sustainable basis. Despite the impressive coverage of provision of safe drinking …
Chief minister Arjun Munda on Sunday laid the foundation stone of a Rs 6-crore rural drinking water project at Manpur village, Baharagora block in East Singhbhum, about 100 kilometres from Jamshedpur, signalling his government’s commitment to the hinterland. Accompanied by deputy chief minister Hemant Soren and Bahragora MLA Vidyut Barun …
The government has completed six water schemes and two bridges in Mohmand Agency to provide clean drinking water and better communication facilities to tribal people to bring them at par with developed parts of the country. The schemes were completed in Tehsils Pindiali, Safi and Khewezai in Mohmand Agency that …
Groundwater table is sinking fast in 60 per cent districts of the State, which is casting an adverse impact on piped water supply schemes and drinking water situation can assume worse proportions in years to come. Therefore, joint efforts are the need of the hour for replenishment and stability of …
Sterlite Copper has sponsored Rs 2.7 lakh towards a drinking water project at Vadakkusilukkanpatti. Col. S. Krishnan handed over the confirmation letter to Collector Ashish Kumar, Collector, here on Friday. It has sponsored the project based on requests from the villagers as there is an acute shortage of water. The …
It is a tragedy that should arouse us all to fury. In Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Maharashtra, farmers have parched fields while dam reservoirs are full. Wells have run dry despite normal summer rainfall. Things are so bad that Andhra and Karnataka have declared a drought. Maharashtra is on the …
Gandhinagar: Closely following the draft Gujarat Water Policy 2011 sent to the chief minister’s office (CMO) for finalization, a fresh high-level document, prepared for the Planning Commission of India, has proposed major water reforms in rural Gujarat. This document proposes introducing availability of water 24x7 through water meters at the …
