Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Debi Prasad Banerjee Vs Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change & Others dated 22.04/2024. The application was filed by the applicant alleging that Barasat Government Medical College & Hospital, Barasat has dug an open hole …
The Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development (MLGRD) says it is helping households to get more toilet facilities towards eradicating open defecation, a major health menace across the country. Deputy sector Minister, Edwin Nii Lantey Vanderpuije said the Ministry was embarking on two schemes, which have begun in some …
"It is estimated that only one in three families (34 per cent) in Tanzania has access to improved toilets with wide disparities between regions, across urban and rural areas," according to a report from The United Nations Children's Fund, USAID and the World Health Organization (WHO). The report issued also …
World Toilet Day was on Thursday, celebrated for the first time in 2013 since the United Nations General Assembly adopted Singapore’s decision to dedicate 19 November for that day. More than 50% of Egyptians are deprived of sewage services, while 1 million people are deprived of clean water sources, according …
To fast track the construction of toilets under the Swachh Bharat Mission, the Coimbatore Corporation plans to tap Corporate Social Responsibility funds from corporate companies. According to sources, the Corporation has sent out invites to 60 companies for a meeting on Wednesday to see if they could play a role …
To ensure cleaner urban areas, the Haryana government has sanctioned construction of Individual Household Latrine (IHL) for 32,115 eligible beneficiaries under the ‘Swachh Bharat Mission’. The State Government is contributing Rs 10,000 per IHL and the Centre is providing Rs 4,000, an official release said here. A sum of Rs …
Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Kalkaji Mandir Vikreta Sangathan-II & Ors Versus Piyush Joshi & Ors dated 28/10/2015 regarding sanitation and cleanliness of the Kalkaji Mandir Complex, New Delhi. In pursuance of Supreme Court's earlier order, an Inspection Report has been submitted by the …
ASAHIKAWA, HOKKAIDO – The inventor of a new kind of toilet based on sawdust calls it a hygienic solution for whenever there is no water or drainage, such as after natural disasters. The Bio-Lux toilet uses a screw mixing mechanism to turn over the sawdust and keep the odor down. …
Private companies in Pimpri Chinchwad have helped construct 93 individual toilets in Rajiv Gandhinagar slums in Pimpale Saudagar. Mangesh Kadam, senior social worker with Shelter Associates, said, "In four months, we built 93 toilets here and handed them over on Wednesday to slum dwellers. We are working in Sangli, Kolhapur …
The Supreme Court has taken note of one of the minimum criteria that a person must have for contesting panchayat elections in Haryana — a toilet in the house — and asked the state government to file an affidavit giving details as to how many poor natives have the facility. …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Southern Zone, Chennai) in the matter of M. Kumaravel Vs The Collector, Kancheepuram District dated 10/10/2015 regarding environmental degradation caused due to open defecation by the fishermen community at Muttukadu Tsunami relief tenements located in S.F.No.97/3, Muttukadu Village, Kancheepuram District and to construct an …
The State Government has set a target to convert at least one block in each district and 1,040 gram panchayats as open defecation-free under Swachh Bharat Mission during the current fiscal. The State is lagging far behind in its target of toilet construction in individual households. As against a target …
PANAJI: It is unlikely that even this tourist season beach shacks will have green or eco-friendly toilets. The tourism department is still in the process of finalizing the technology to set up green toilets. It is only after the right technology is selected that it will float an expression of …
A total of 22 village panchayats have been declared ‘open defecation-free’ in Erode district during the gram sabha meeting last week. Common toilets To curb the practice of open defecation, every household was provided with a lavatory. In the absence of space in households, common toilets were constructed, according to …
Of the total 322 village panchayats in the district, all the houses in 61 villages have individual household latrines. The villages have been declared as open defecation-free by the village panchayats. Officials of the District Rural Development Authority (DRDA)said that the toilets in select villages in Panchayat Unions of Elachipalayam, …
The Ministry of Health and Social Welfare in collaboration with the Ministry of Environment, Climate Change, Water, Forestry and Wildlife, UNICEF and Department of Community Development, recently held a day-long sensitisation programme on the elimination of open defecation for Central River Region Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) members in Janjangbureh. The …
With around 300,000 children of school-going age not enrolled and a high dropout rate, the state of education in government schools in Thatta and Sujawal districts is beyond dismal. Between 70 to 85 per cent of the around 3,202 schools in the two districts remain devoid of basic facilities like …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Shailesh Singh Vs. District Magistrate, Ghaziabad & Ors. dated 28/09/2015 regarding collection and disposal of the Municipal Solid Waste in the entire city of Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh.
The practice of open defecation in Ghana is still very alarming, with current data suggesting that almost a quarter of the Ghanaian population do not use any latrine facility. Statistics also indicates that access to improved sanitation in Ghana is estimated at 15 per cent against the Millennium Development Goals …
The Kumbakonam municipality has said that a special vigilance team has been formed and more than 200 bio-toilets connected with underground drainage channels are being installed to make sure that there would be no instances of manual scavenging during the Mahamaham festival, to be conducted in February, 2016. The municipality …
MUMBAI: The BMC has received Rs 8 crore from the state government to build public toilets in the city under the Modi-government promoted Swachh Bharat campaign. Around 11 lakh people use public toilets and the BMC already provides most of them, said an officer. In 2014, the Centre has issued …
