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 …
DIPAYAL: With the campaigns so far for declaring Doti an Open Defecation Free zone not being result-oriented, the district is going to miss the deadline. Most of the Village Development Committees in the district are being declared ODF areas in a hurry without proper preparations. Toilets have been built only …
Imagine this: You are driving on the Athwalines Road and need to answer nature's call. Once you have crossed the traffic junction at Athwa Chowpaty, you won't find a single pay-and-use toilet on the entire two-km stretch till Piplod. A public toilet at Lakeview garden could just skip from one's …
Residents across the city have complained about the lack of clean public toilets and have demanded that the Nashik Municipal Corporation take up the issue. "There are not enough public toilets in the city and it is a problem especially for women," said Vijayalakshmi Manenikar, director of a private school. …
In India, perhaps Ground Zero in the sanitation and faecal contamination battle, the government has set Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birthday in 2019 as its target for achieving “total sanitation,” including access to toilets for all 1.2 billion residents. In a world in which 14 percent of the population in the …
AS nations marked 2014 World Toilet Day yesterday, the United Nations Children’s Education Fund (UNICEF) has revealed that no fewer than 119 million Nigerians still use unsafe toilet facilities in homes and public places, while about 50 million of them actually defecate in public places. The agency noted that slow …
KATHMANDU, NOV 20 - As many as 7.95 million Nepalis still defecate in the open such as bushes and field, according to a study conducted by the Department of Water, Supply and Sanitation. According to its report, 30 percent of the total 24.5 million people lack access to toilet--a basic …
The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Wednesday in New Delahi that an estimated 2.5 billion people around the world lack access to basic sanitation services, of which 792 million live in India. Maria Neira, Director of WHO's Department of Public Health and the Environment, said that this was as …
With a view to achieve its target of making functional toilets available in all government schools in Maharashtra, the education department has set March 2015 as its deadline. “We have already been able to construct 1,036 toilets in the schools run by the government. The remaining 1,411 toilets will be …
In India, perhaps Ground Zero in the sanitation and faecal contamination battle, the government has set Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birthday in 2019 as its target for achieving “total sanitation,” including access to toilets for all 1.2 billion residents. In a world in which 14 percent of the population in the …
An international body, particularly the World Toilet Organisation, has promoted World Toilet Day for years. In 2013, the UN officially recognised November 19 as the World Toilet Day in a bid to make sanitation for all. The 2014 World Toilet Day campaign will draw attention to dignity and equality issues, …
Most of these women were forced to become manual scavengers after marriage Shochalaya nahin toh dulhan nahin [No toilet, no bride]” This is the slogan raised by women from Alwar and Kota in Rajasthan, who joined the International Toilet Festival here on Tuesday. Most of these women, who became manual …
As per the 12th five year plan, 50 percent of the villages must attain ODF (open defecation free) status by 2017 and 100 percentage by 2022. Unhygienic practice often leads to spreading of infectious diseases, and increases illness and mortality among the most vulnerable group i.e., children. Bio-toilets, which are …
Thirty-one government schools in Bageshwar district have failed to construct toilets for their students despite a 2012 Supreme Court order instructing all state-run schools to build toilets within six months. Out of 88 government schools in the district 31 have no toilets. District officials confessed their lack of knowledge about …
As many as 67 government schools are without toilets in Chamba district as per the data posted on the website of the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development (MoHRD) recently. There are 999 government schools in the state, which are functioning without toilets. According to the information available on the …
The state government has asked all district education officers to submit reports on the status of toilets in schools, waking up to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Swachh Bharat, Swachh Vidyalaya campaign. The department has decided to complete construction and repair of toilets by December 31, 2014. According to the …
They call them “flying toilets” – the bags of human poo that are thrown out of the windows of the thousands of small shacks that make up Nairobi’s slums. The largest of Nairobi’s informal settlements is Kibera, just three miles from the city centre. An estimated one million people live …
Atleast 50 per cent households in every area in the M-East ward stay in average or inadequate housing conditions, the highest being in Mankhurd (63.76 per cent in average and 10.72 per cent in inadequate conditions), Vashi Naka (62.28 per cent in average and 2.14 per cent in inadequate) and …
Ahead of the celebrations of Global Handwashing Day on Wednesday, the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) here has raised the concern that one out of five schools nationwide lack toilet facilities. Global Handwashing Day is a campaign to motivate and mobilise millions around the world to wash their hands with …
Bangladesh has achieved a remarkable success in sanitation coverage as 97 per cent households now use latrines while the figure was only 33 percent in 2003. Quoting a joint survey of the World Health Organisationsand the United Nations Children’s Fund, senior secretary of local government division Monzur Hossain said the …
People can approach village panchayat or block development office It has been targeted to construct two lakh individual household toilets in the district under the Total Sanitation Campaign shortly and the works on this project had already commenced. A subsidy of Rs. 12,000 is being provided under the rural sanitation …
