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 …
African governments have declared a 10-point commitment to ensure improvement in sanitation and hygiene on the continent and also endorsed a declaration to follow them through. Specifically, the commitments are geared towards achieving universal access to adequate and sustainable sanitation and hygiene services and the elimination of open defecation by …
VARANASI: Foundation stone of the country's first technology based toilet project with behaviour trackers- 'remote monitoring and waterless urinal'- was laid by mayor Ram Gopal Mohaley at Rani Bhawani Jay Narayan Balika Vidyalaya and also Rajendra Prasad Ghat. Apart from them another toilet complex will come up at Luxa market. …
Comptroller Auditor General (CAG) has accused Chhattisgarh government of violating the provisions of Jail Manual by not providing basic amenities of sanitation and hygienic conditions to prisoners. While a lot has been written about the pathetic conditions of Indian jails, with courts, including the apex court, often pulling up governments …
Under Swachh Bharat Mission, 480 public toilets will be installed at 80 different locations in Delhi in the next three months. A decision to this effect was taken on Wednesday evening at a meeting by urban development secretary Madhusudan Prasad. Various models of public toilets, including the hugely popular Namma …
The new water and sanitation development goal must include measurable targets, to improve the lives of those without water or access to a safe toilet The report card is in on the UN’s first set of global targets, the millennium development goals. And when it comes to reaching the world’s …
Ghana has slipped further on its sanitation performance globally to become the World’s 7th worst performing country, according to a new report released on Tuesday. The Joint Monitoring Programme report, “Progress on Sanitation and Drinking Water: 2015 Update and MDG Assessment,” a collaborative effort between the World Health Organisation (WHO) …
Teachers and students of the Madina Estate Cluster of Schools are finding innovative ways to attend nature's call due to the lack of toilet facilities in the school. About 300 students and teachers according to reports, have to travel long distances or use the bushes near them to ease themselves. …
About 1.8 million Malawians are still practicing open defecation, the global health organization recent report has revealed. The report cites that the same population consists of people who do not have good toilets hence they are not hygienic. It further reveals that a good percentage of Malawians do not wash …
AHMEDABAD: Nearly half of the households in Gujarat lack toilets, according to the 2011 census. Of the 1.20 lakh households in Gujarat — the census says — 47.25% do not have toilets. The Gujarat figure, though grim, is better than India's: around 61% of the country's households do not have …
Nagpur: If the cash-strapped Nagpur Municipal Corporation wants the state's second capital to be among the 100 smart cities in the country, it will have to shell out Rs 50 crore per annum besides spending Rs 200 crore annually for next five years to carry out various development works. This …
Toilets in the Chinese countryside have earned a nasty reputation, with some little more than ramshackle shelters surrounded by bunches of cornstalk and others just open pits next to pigsties. However, a toilet revolution is under way as the Chinese government scrambles to meet a UN health target requiring 75 …
Karnataka ranks among the top five states that have taken a lead in building community and public toilet seats under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s pet project, the Swachh Bharat Mission. Delhi has built the highest number of community and public toilet seats, while Gujarat tops in building individual household toilets. …
The BBMP has issued guidelines to ensure organisers keep public places clean after holding events there. The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has come out with a set of fresh guidelines to ensure that organisers who hold meetings / gatherings at public places keep them clean during and after the …
RAJBIRAJ: Despite being declared open-defecation free zones, around dozen VDCs in Saptari are performing very poorly in terms of use of toilets. The fact came to light during a monitoring carried out by Drinking Water and Sanitation Coordination Committee in coordination with Sanchar Yatra Nepal in Malahan and Pipra Paschim …
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has launched a € 5.9 million Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) project on the theme “Improving sanitation access in urban Ghana” at Ashaiman near, Accra. The project, sponsored by the Netherlands Government, under the Ghana-Netherlands Water programme, aims at curbing open defecation by building …
TISS survey throws up alarming results. While only six per cent surveyed schools in rural Maharashtra had some basic provision for assisting children with special needs in the toilets, of the 97.8 per cent schools that had toilets, just 62.2 per cent were functional at the time of survey, reveals …
Those who make do without are polluting water and jeopardising health for millions Toilets are still a luxury for a third of the world's people, who have no access to them, according to a report by the World Health Organisation and Unicef. Those who make do without toilets continue to …
In a record of sorts, District Administration has constructed 682 toilets in the schools across the district in last three weeks. Another 225 school toilets are also at finishing stage which will make the total number as 907. The fast track construction through special inter-departmental teams was achieved keeping in …
Beaches that are supposed to be an attraction for visitors, tourists and other amusement activities but in many parts of Monrovia, they are being turned into defecation sites. A visitor walking through the densely and congested slump communities of West Point and New Kru Town, was in awe at how …
Japan is holding its first-ever toilet design contest, with organizers looking for the “most comfortable,” “cheapest for the developing world” and “safest for women,” officials have said. In a bid to find the nation’s loveliest lavatories, a government panel is seeking applications that prove designers are thinking big about the …
