Central to the achievement of the Agenda for Sustainable Development is an adequate, equitably distributed and fully supported health workforce. Nurses are the largest occupational group and represent an indispensable force with which to combat inequities in access to health services and progress towards health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), while …
An ethnography of everyday life in Shivaji Nagar, a predominantly Muslim slum locality in Mumbai, illustrates how its "Muslimness" complicates the residents' access to water, a commodified and politicised amenity. The struggles of local Muslims to access water also involve holding the state accountable through localised "mundane" politics at the …
New Delhi: It’s not just groundwater regulations that the Centre is looking at changing. The UPA has proposed an overhaul in the entire water distribution regime by setting up state-level authorities that will decide price for water supply — on the lines of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices …
To be equipped with GPS to keep tabs on the service Complaints of errant tanker drivers asking for money, delay in service and several other aberrations have prompted the Delhi Jal Board to outsource the water tankers and equip them with a global positioning system to keep tabs on the …
PANJIM: A minor puncture in the water distribution line, along 18 June road, has caused water contamination for the second time in Panjim city. Public Works Department (PWD) staff swung into action immediately on Monday morning to plug the damaged pipeline through which dirty water had begun flowing through the …
Chief minister Sheila Dikshit’s move of privatisation of Delhi Jal Board has triggered a tug-of-war between the BJP led civic body and the Congress government. Mayor of North MCD, Ms Meera Aggarwal on Friday came out against the move alleging that it is being done to conceal “incompetence” and demanded …
After electricity, water is literally going to burn a hole in the pockets of Delhiites. Delhi CM Mrs Sheila Dikshit on Tuesday confirmed the government’s plan of privatisation of Delhi Jal Board, following a model similar to the one followed by the discoms for power distribution. The privatisation will result …
INDIA’S BIGGEST lies hide behind its per capita figures. Our average income is $1,219 (approximately 68,300) and we are ranked 142nd in the world. But with 55 billionaires, we also stand fourth in the list of the countries boasting the world’s richest individuals. Between these two true figures, two-thirds of …
New Delhi Mumbai and Delhi which are presently reeling under water crisis will require the maximum supply of the municipal tap water in the world by 2025, according to a Mckinsey Global Institute report. Mumbai tops the list of the 20 global cities in terms of municipal water demand in …
A day after a water survey was conducted by North Delhi Municipal Corporation revealed the supply of contaminated water in North Delhi areas, the Delhi Jal Board on Thursday contradicted the report and claimed that water being supplied in the area was fit for drinking. The agency, which is responsible …
Pumps stop droning as Delhiites make efforts for equal distribution There is no droning of water pumps and no contest between neighbours over whose motor draws more water in Vasant Vihar’s Hill View Apartments. When the Delhi Jal Board supplies water twice a day in this otherwise parched locality of …
Scientists at the city-based National Geophysical Research Laboratory (NGRI) are optimistic that if water conserving measures such as rainwater harvesting are put in place in a joint venture of citizens and civic bodies, the monsoon will be enough to ensure the city does not experience another parched summer. Dr Shakeel …
Two back-to-back meetings between Delhi and Haryana on Monday failed to break the deadlock over the supply of water to the Capital, as the crisis deepened with the three treatment plants continuing to perform below par. A statement from Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit’s office announced water cuts in the VIP …
Instead of managing the distribution of water properly, the Delhi government held Haryana responsible for the water crisis in the national Capital, said the BJP. Delhi unit chief of the BJP, Vijendra Gupta said the Haryana government claimed that it supplied the full share of Delhi, but the city government …
“Put in extra efforts during next two-three months so that no tangible complaint is received” Consumers who fall within the Delhi Jal Board's service area and are in the billing net should get water for least an hour-and-a-half every day, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit instructed the water utility on Wednesday. …
New Delhi: Ruma Roy has spent Rs 6,000 on purchasing water from private tankers in the past one month and a half. Her house in south Delhi’s Gulmohar Park has been getting Delhi Jal Board supply only once a week, if she is “lucky”. DJB has neither responded to calls …
JAIPUR: The National Capital Region Planning Board (NCRPB) has agreed to fund the drinking water supply projects in the Alwar district of Rajasthan worth Rs. 1,132 crore. The state government on Wednesday also gave its consent for these projects. The three schemes sanctioned by the state government are water supply …
The acute spatial and temporal variations in precipitation patterns have greatly influenced water resources planning, management, and development in India. Specifically, these patterns have led to the development of several water transfer projects in the country. The Inter-Linking of Rivers (ILR) project is a grand example of such a water …
Rapidly growing cities in the developing world face a complex and challenging task to keep pace with their expanding populations; investment, planning and meeting the labour aspirations of their new inhabitants, says this report from the McKinsey Global Institute. Cities have long been the world’s economic dynamos, but today the …
AMRAVATI: The state government is diverting scarce water resources in the drought-prone Vidarbha region to private thermal power plants. However, a state energy department official dismissed figures of water that is deprived to farmers as "exaggerated". The six districts in Vidarbha recorded 8,273 farmers' suicides in the past decade. In …
The Delhi Jal Board, led by its chairperson Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, undertook a two-day programme this past week to highlight how a public-private partnership (PPP) programme being launched in Nangloi will bring round-the-clock water to each doorstep in the area and dismissed concerns that the water supply system was …
