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 …
Water pollution from sewage is causing great damage to India. The nation needs to complete its waste systems and reinvent toilet technologies, says Sunita Narain.
If architecture is 'design for living', one of its greatest challenges is how to live with the masses of waste we excrete. Four pioneers in green sanitation design outline solutions to a dilemma too often shunted down the pan.
Urban campaigner and architect Arif Hasan has been central to a sanitary revolution, transforming Orangi, Karachi, from informal settlement to thriving community. Using his technical know-how, residents built a sewage system, sparking vast social change. Now chair of Pakistan's urbanization task force, he discusses incorporating sustainable design into poor cities.
Sixty per cent of people living in India do not have access to toilets, and hence are forced to defecate in the open. In actual numbers, sixty per cent translates to 626 million. This makes India the number one country in the world where open defecation is practised. Indonesia with …
The government subsidy for constructing individual household toilets has been increased to Rs. 4,700 a unit and 2,488 beneficiaries would be sanctioned the subsidy in the district soon, said Collector Darez Ahmed. Speaking at the valediction of a mass contact programme at Sirumathur here on Wednesday, Mr.Ahmed said about 672 …
The North Municipal Corporation has proposed to convert rundown and unused public toilets into recreation centres and dispensaries. “Some of these community toilet complexes and urinals were built 10 to 12 years ago in areas where sewerage lines were not laid. But these days, every area has sewerage and water …
Non-availability of female teachers, absence of safe drinking water, poor maintenance of sanitation facilities and low awareness is what keeps the young girls in the educationally backward and Muslim-dominated Mewat district of Haryana away from schools, a recently conducted study commissioned as part of the National Women Empowerment Mission, under …
Uttar Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh give contrasting pictures of the sanitation story in the country. While the latter swears by subsidised toilet building, the latter gave up the subsidy offer route long before. And, while UP is far away from total sanitation, the latter has declared itself Open Defecation Free. …
New Delhi: In a boost to making rural India free from open defecation, the Centre has increased the grant for construction of a toilet under the Total Sanitation Campaign from Rs 4,600 to Rs 10,000. The increase is in line with realistic estimates of construction, with many states having complained …
Finally, there is good news for the people of Haryana as the state is set to become 100 per cent defecation-free and achieve complete sanitation in next two years. While Haryana has resolved to achieve the goal in two years, its neighbouring state Punjab has set five-year time for the …
To intensify its drive for rural sanitation, the Government has revised the guidelines regarding Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan's convergence with the rural employment guarantee scheme. The aim is to make 2,40,000 gram panchayats free of open defecation in 10 years, the Rural Development Minister, Mr Jairam Ramesh, told reporters here on …
Commission says these are meant for shared public use A day after a Right to Information query revealed that the Planning Commission had splurged over Rs. 30 lakh on renovating toilets at its headquarters in Delhi, the Commission disputed that it was wasteful expenditure. The Commission said the amount was …
Planning Commission dy chairman defends . 35L spent on toilets. While the government wants India to tighten its belt, the Planning Commission can afford to, well, flush with cash. On Wednesday, Commission chief Montek Singh Ahluwalia said that . 35 lakh spent on two toilets in his office was not …
New Delhi: The Planning Commission, mandated to keep a watchful eye on expenses incurred by states and central ministries, found it hard on Wednesday to justify spending Rs 35 lakh of public money on renovation of two toilets at its headquarters, Yojana Bhavan. The panel, under attack for wasting a …
New Delhi: The Planning Commission — which set Rs 32 a day as the upper limit spend to qualify as poor, then cut it to Rs 28 — recently spent Rs 35 lakh on refurbishing two toilets at Yojana Bhavan. In response to an RTI query, it also admitted spending …
Sulabh International has invited Microsoft founder Bill Gates to visit its headquarters in the Capital to witness its low-cost, environment-friendly toilet technology being used in India and other developing nations. The NGO's invitation follows Mr. Gates' statement made during recent visit to India where he said his “ultimate dream” was …
Having launched a global quest to “reinvent the toilet” last year, Bill Gates — Microsoft founder-turned-philanthropist — could soon turn his focus on the filthy toilets used by Indian Railways passengers. In a meeting with Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh here on Wednesday, Mr. Gates discussed the idea of jointly …
His company's software has, over the decades, enabled legions of Indian youth to become computer engineers, and helped the country lay claim to IT superpower status. With luck, his fortune now may help the country achieve something much more basic . The global charity founded on the fortune of software …
LUCKNOW: With a promise of initiating more development activities in UP, chief minister Akhilesh Yadav and Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, on Wednesday decided to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) within two months of Gates' visit. The objective will be to engage with the …
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is learnt to be planning to explore potential to assist sanitation sector. Microsoft founder Bill Gates, who is slated to be in Delhi this week, is likely to touch base with Minister for Drinking Water and Sanitation, Jairam Ramesh, to identify potential areas of …
