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 …
Untreated waste water is a health hazard. Nonetheless, it should be considered a resource. Unless it is recycled and re-used, it will be impossible to provide all people in the cities of developing countries with safe drinking water. The example of India shows that agglomerations cannot get ever more fresh …
The Census 2011 data for Haryana has revealed that about 96 per cent of families were living in good or liveable houses while the remaining were living in dilapidated houses, Director (Census Operations) Neerja Sekhar said here on Thursday. Releasing the Housing Census data at a Press conference here, she …
“Dirty and insecure toilets force kids, especially girls, out of school” A report on the condition of toilets in Delhi's government schools has painted a grim picture of neglect and apathy towards the lives and hygiene of lakhs of children. The survey of the schools toilets was carried out by …
Anita Bai Narre insisted on a toilet as precondition for living at husband's place As if to buttress Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's emphasis on drinking water and sanitation in his reply to the motion of thanks to the President's address, a young woman was rewarded for her successful insistence on …
MUMBAI: Call it a fitting paradox of life in the country's financial capital. Over 94% of Mumbai's homes own telephones, but merely 55% of suburban households have toilets. Nearly 85,000 of about 26 lakh homes in the city lack tap water and 75,000 are without electricity, reveals district-level findings of …
A latest data from the Census 2011 of Haryana, released by the Registrar General of India recently, presents a study in contrast. While about 83 per cent of the population has access to radio/TV and 79 per cent to telephone, including mobile phones, just 69 per cent of the total …
Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi may have come under attack from his own party for fare hike, but his Budget offers a slew of passenger-friendly measures that will go a long way in addressing the need for clean and green trains. To start with, the Railways will have 2,500 coaches with …
Half the country’s population may not have a toilet at home but it is not without a mobile phone. Bringing to light this feature of the population, Census 2011 data on houses, household amenities and assets released today said 49.8 per cent of households defecated in the open. But 63.2 …
Census sheds new light on changing nation Though half of all Indians do not have a toilet at home, well over half own a telephone, new census data released on Tuesday show. These and many other contrasting facts of life have come out in Census 2011. The data on housing, …
The first set of final data from census 2011 further establishes India’s story of contradictions: with 63.2 per cent households owning a telephone connection, up from a mere 9.1 per cent 10 years ago, the country is more wired than ever before. But despite all the talk of vikaas (development), …
New Delhi: Drinking water is supposed to be one of India’s success stories — the government says it met its Millennium Development Goal on water five years ahead of time, and that its rural drinking water mission has reached every uncovered habitation. Yet Census 2011 data shows that 20% of …
* Nominal increase in rail fares after 9 years; Fair up by 5 paise per kilo metre in sleeper class. * For express trains, hike of 3 paise per kilometre. * 10 to 20 paise hike in tickets fares. * Better SMS-based booking. * 75 new passenger trains. * Platform …
New Delhi: Less than half a kilometre from Raj Niwas, the official residence of LG Tejendra Khanna, is a small room alongside a garbage depot. No board indicates the purpose of the structure, which is actually meant to provide refuge to safai karamcharis in between tasks like lugging garbage, sweeping …
Union Minister for Rural Development, Drinking Water and Sanitation Jairam Ramesh announced a national award for sanitation and water in the name of Maharashtrian saint Sant Gadge Baba. The Minister toured several villages in Satara district in Maharashtra to inspect the work of the Nirmal Gram Yojana for sanitation on …
Cherthala municipal chairperson Jayalakshmi Anilkumar said that it was planning to install e-toilets in the municipality. Addressing a press conference here on Wednesday, the municipal chairperson said that three e-toilets with a total estimate of Rs 15.75 lakh will be installed in three locations in the municipality. She later told …
Passengers travelling in long-distance trains will soon get respite from the stench of toilets with Railways set to replace them with "odourless" bio-toilets. With a view to providing more hygienic conditions, Railways is firming up a green initiative to manufacture 2,500 bio-toilets in the upcoming fiscal. Unlike traditional toilets in …
Passengers travelling in long-distance trains will soon get respite from the stench of toilets with the railways set to replace them with “odourless” bio-toilets. With a view to provide more hygienic conditions, the railways is firming up a green initiative to manufacture 2,500 bio-toilets in the upcoming fiscal. Unlike traditional …
Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh appears to have set off a controversy with his remark, that “women demand mobile phones but not toilets”. Prominent women slammed the minister for making the remark. Madhu Kishwar, a senior academician, in a sharp reaction said, “May be it (the remark) could be …
Expects Shyam Benegal to come up with a toilet version of Manthan “If [film director] Shyam Benegal can come up with a toilet version of Manthan [the movie that focused on milk cooperatives] we can break a certain social barrier” towards solving a problematic issue like sanitation, said Union Rural …
