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 …
India’s first Connected E-Toilet Infrastructure (CETI) is coming up in Pathanamthitta. Addressing a press conference here on Wednesday, Babu George, president, district panchayat, and P. Vijayama, vice-president, said Minister for Local Self-government M.K. Muneer would inaugurate the CETI project at a public function on the District Hospital premises at Kozhencherry …
Total sanitation programme which was so far been executed by the Rural Development Department is permissible under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS). “If construction of toilets has not been included in the labour budget for 2012-13, supplementary annual action plan and labour budget to include the …
Electricity, water supply connections pending The installation of the e-toilet beside the Thirunakkara ground in Kottayam Municipality has entered its final phase and is likely to be commissioned within a week. The facility is being installed by the Kerala State Electronics Development Corporation (Keltron). While the unit has already been …
The Bubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has launched sanitation programme aimed at making the city clean before August 31, the Local Self-Governance Day. Mayor Ananta Narayan Jena in the presence of Municipal Commissioner Sanjib Misra, Deputy Mayor Bharti Singh and BMC’s Public Health Standing Committee Chairman Sheikh Nizamuddin kicked off the …
Without water people cannot survive, but without good sanitation and hygiene practices the water available could become contaminated and lead to disease and death. Every year 1.5 million people, most of them children, die from complications associated with diarrhea that they picked up from dirty water.
Mobility India manager S N Anand said that it has planned to construct 1,000 toilets for members of specially-abled association and 250 have already been constructed. He was speaking at a programme organised to distribute revolving fund to specially-abled at Chandakavadi in Chamarajanagar taluk recently. In order to encourage specially-abled …
As of of 30 June 2012, WSSCC’s Global Sanitation Fund supports work actively in Cambodia, Ethiopia, India, Madagascar, Malawi, Nepal, Senegal and Uganda. In those countries, 94 sub-grantees have raised awareness of sanitation and hygiene nationally and in a number of regions.
The flagship programme undertaken by the BMC along with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) received a green signal as 21 proposed public toilets received location and land clearance. However the capital city with over eight lakh population, is yet to have a decent number of operational public or …
A major step to make India open defecation free was taken on Thursday with the ministry of rural development headed by minister Jairam Ramesh joining hands with the ministry of defence under defence minister A.K. Antony to set up bio-digester toilets in 2.4 lakh gram panchayats in India. The technology …
Jairam Ramesh, Union Rural Development, Drinking Water and Sanitation Minister, on Thursday described the Railways as the world’s largest open toilet as his ministry signed an MoU with the Defence Research and Development Organisation to provide 1,000 bio digester toilets to 300 gram panchayats on a pilot basis in the …
TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: Even as his drinking water and sanitation department tied up with DRDO on Thursday to set up bio-digestor toilets in 1,000 village panchayats across the country, Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh could not resist taking a couple of jocular swipes at the huge annual …
All trains could soon have bio-toilets, with the Ministry of Rural Development offering to bear half the total cost — Rs. 500 crore — of installing them. After meeting with Railway Board Chairman Vinay Mittal on Tuesday, Rural development Minister Jairam Ramesh said his Ministry would pay 50 per cent …
Poverty, delays in release of funds hamper ‘Total Sanitation Campaign’ Efforts to make the ‘Total Sanitation Campaign’ a success in the district appear to have lost momentum. Even after the State government has planned to increase the allocation of funds from Rs 3,000 to Rs 10,000 per toilet, the rate …
Few other divisions of the Kochi Corporation have as many infrastructure projects lined up as the Vyttila division. Vyttila is the biggest junction in the State and is home to the inter-modal mobility hub. A railway halt is expected at the adjacent Ponnurunni, so that Vyttila can lay claim to …
Srinagar: Governor NN Vohra here today reviewed the enforcement of the cleanliness and sanitation arrangements put in place at all camps and on both the Baltal and Pahalgam routes for the ongoing Amarnath yatra. At a high-level meeting with Tourism Minister Nawang Rigzin Jora and other senior officials, the Governor …
KOLKATA, 16 JULY: For the first time in civic history, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) will construct 66 community toilets in the city. The idea to set up community toilets was mooted by the chief minister, Miss Mamata Banerjee. The ministry of minority affairs has provided Rs 5.94 crore to …
Passengers on long-haul trains will soon be saved from the stink from the coach toilets with Railways kicking off a green initiative in the State on Thursday to introduce “odourless” and hygienic bio-toilets aboard. Train no. 16316/16315 Kochuveli-Bangalore Express has become the first train from the State and in Southern …
Decrying the lack of proper sanitation facilities, Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh on Friday said toilets built over the last 10 years across the country are being used for storing food grain. "In last 10 years, toilets have been built (across the country)...But toilets are not being used for the …
CHANDIGARH, 6 JULY: Decrying the lack of proper sanitation facilities, rural development minister Jairam Ramesh today said toilets (in file photo) built over the past 10 years across the country are being used for storing food grain. “The toilets are not being used for the purpose for which they had …
Chandigarh: Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh today said Punjab could utilise only Rs 29 crore of the Rs 151 crore earmarked for the state to build rural toilets in the past 10 years. Clearly indicating that this was a case of mismanagement, Ramesh said instead of blaming someone else …
