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 …
MANILA, Oct. 10 (Xinhua) -- Despite the country's economic gains in recent years, the number of children living in poverty in the Philippines has continued to go up, according to a study released by state think tank Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) on Friday. The PIDS study titled "Child …
Oct 09, Colombo: The Australian High Commission in Colombo recently handed over 44 newly built toilets to beneficiaries in resettled villages in Manthai West, Mannar. The High Commission has to-date built 160 toilets in Manthai West for resettled villages in both Tamil and Muslim areas at a total value of …
In a city whose 65 lakh population has just 900 toilets, the corporation has come up with the idea of setting up electronic toilets as a solution. Two e-toilets set up on Gandhi Mandapam Road will be open to the public soon. By year-end, there will be such facilities in …
Since 1986, India has spent over $3 billion on constructing toilets across the country, figures from the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation show. Despite such massive investments, India’s sanitation campaigns over the years have unfortunately yielded limited results. India continues to have the largest number of people who defecate …
The city administration is set to provide toilet facilities in as many as 700 slum clusters in the city as a party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “Swachchh Bharat” campaign. The initiative will be undertaken and executed by the Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUSIB) in all the jhuggi jhopri …
The urban slum area located at the heart of National Capital had over 65% people defecating in the open. The approach was community-led where entire financing for toilets was done by the community itself. Across 7 slums where such intervention is in progress the communities have invested around Rs 20 …
The Gujarat government is planning to make the state “open defecation-free” in next two years. Gujarat chief minister Anandi Patel said on Wednesday that her government is on an over-drive to build toilets across Gujarat and could even punish those who defecate in open. “We are building toilets across Gujarat …
As the nation gears up to participate in the massive ‘Swachh Bharat’ Mission to be launched from next month, the Centre on Thursday said it would spend Rs2 lakh crore for the next five years to make India India open defecation free by October 2019, coinciding with the 150th birth …
State Potable Water and Sanitation Minister Mantri Prasad Naithani said that the amount allocated for construction of toilets under Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan (NBA) is inadequate and that the State Government will raise this issue with the Central Government. Naithani said this at the launch of the National Sanitation Awareness Campaign …
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday directed the civic agencies to come up with plan for better sanitation facilities, after observing that there was a “serious dearth” of toilets in the capital and most people were “still using walls and railway tracks”. The court of Justices B D Ahmed and …
The Union Minister of Rural Development and Drinking Water and Sanitation Shri Nitin Gadkari said that Swachh Bharat Mission will be converted into a mass movement to make India an open defecation free country in Five Years. Addressing a Joint Press conference with the Urban Development Minister Shri M. Venkaiah …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zonal Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Kapil Malaiya & Others Vs. Union of India & Others dated 25/09/2014 regarding pollutants discharged from running passenger train toilets on the railway tracks and also on dealing with the railway tracks in the form of …
Of the 15.51 lakh households in Uttarakhand under the Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan (NBA), 10.41 lakh have been provided with toilets. The State’s toilet coverage under the programme is about 67 per cent. Work on construction of toilets for the remaining 5,09,830 families will be facilitated through NBA and MNREGA funds, …
Despite economic growth, government latrine construction, and increasing recognition among policymakers that open defecation constitutes a health and human capital crisis, it remains stubbornly widespread in rural India. We present evidence from new survey data collected in Bihar, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh. Many survey respondents' behaviour reveals …
To maintain cleanliness of all the rivers of the district that merge in the Ganga, the Champawat district administration has sent a proposal of constructing 100 toilets across the district under the ‘Clean Ganga Campaign’. Besides, a plan has also been formulated under the same proposal to maintain cleanliness and …
Madhya Pradesh not only lags way behind in availability of toilets to children of government schools across the state, officials also don't seem to be interested in providing details of the status of toilets in government schools. Authorities of only seven districts in the state have furnished information about status …
Councillors in the South Delhi Municipal Corporation will be getting an additional Rs.2-5 lakh each to improve cleanliness in their wards, Leader of the House Subhash Arya said on Monday. “The councillors can coordinate with the Zonal Deputy Commissioner and the executive engineer of maintenance to get cleanliness in their …
Guntur: Minister for panchayt raj Ch. Ayyanna Patrudu on Sunday said that the state government will provide Integrated Sanitary Latrines (ISLs) to 62 lakh families in the next five years to improve living standards. Mr Ayyanna Patrudu, along with Assembly Speaker Kodela Siva Prasads Rao and agriculture minister Prattipati Pulla …
Not Cleaned For Long, Facilities Too Filthy For Use; Waste Dumps Full Too The civic facilities in a city are a measure of its standard. By that token, Delhi will rank with the worst. Public urinals here are a terrible sight. Even walking past them can be revolting leave alone …
Report By SSA Unit Contradicts Figures Provided By CM Chief minister Oommen Chandy on Wednesday put the number of government schools without toilet facilities at 196 but a report from the state unit of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan project says at least 219 government lower primary and upper primary schools in …
