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 …
More than half of the 80,000 government schools in the state have no toilets, and where they exist, they are in bad shape. In every fourth government high school, girls have to share toilets with boys. As a result of this neglect, girl students suffer from several avoidable health problems. …
About 23 percent rural people use unhygienic toilets while 10 percent villagers defecate in the open in Bangladesh, reveals a survey. The data achieved through the surveying of about 2.5 lakh people in some 150 villages of the seven divisions this year represent the overall sanitary condition of the country, …
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed all states and Union territories to build toilets, particularly for girls, in all government schools by November-end. A bench headed by Justice D K Jain asked all the governments to take immediate steps regarding this and file their compliance reportbeforethedeadline. “It is …
Provide toilet facilities in all government schools by December 31, the Supreme Court on Tuesday told all the states and union territories (UT). Temporary facilities must be provided by November 30, in case permanent services cannot be enabled, Justices Dalveer Bhandari and Dipak Misra said. The court's direction came in …
Provide toilet facilities in all government schools by Dec 31, the Supreme Court Tuesday told all the states and union territories (UT). Temporary facilities must be provided by Nov 30, in case permanent services cannot be enabled, Justices Dalveer Bhandari and Dipak Misra said. The court's direction came in the …
After bicycles and utensils, the SAD-BJP government has now started pasting cyclostyled messages at the entry gates of toilets in rural areas, singing praises of the Punjab Government for providing these for the poor sections to help them live with ‘self-respect’. Five month back, the Union Ministry for Housing and …
An environmental group is asking the Nepal government to consider installing portable toilets on Mount Everest for climbers caught short at the roof of the world. Eco Himal says the thousands of trekkers who set off from the South Base Camp in Nepal each year would do a better job …
In a bid to woo voters before the upcoming civic polls, the Congress party wants to make Mumbai’s slums self-contained. Vinod Shekhar, a Congress corporator from Colaba, demanded that the municipality must allow slum dwellers to construct toilets in their homes. Mumbai Congress President Kripashankar Singh has also supported the …
Professionals and activists at a global conference on sanitation and hygiene on Wednesday stressed the need for coordinated efforts from the government and non-government organizations to remove institutional as well as cultural barriers to make sure that all, including the marginalised and the physically-challenged people, have access to proper sanitation. …
A six-day global conference on sanitation and hygiene which began here on Monday called for all out efforts to ensure that everyone across the world has access to toilets and safe water to prevent deaths from diarrheal diseases. Professionals, activists and policy makers from different countries told the conference that …
Waterless Urinals No Prime Space For Ads, So View Is Clear New Delhi: As you drive towards MCD headquarters on the Jawaharlal Nehru Marg, it’s hard to miss the newly constructed waterless urinals, most of which do not have frontal cover. Most of the 603 such urinals in the city …
It will be implemented by Sulabh International in 150 houses A total sanitation project is to be implemented at a cost of Rs. 75 lakh at Milavittan in the district through the initiatives of Sterlite Copper here. According to a press release, bhoomi puja was performed to this effect on …
The Ganga Action Programme is a very ambitious scheme. It aims to clean one of the world’s longest rivers using sophisticated and expensive technologies. But the project does not sufficiently recognise that the river flows through one of the poorest and the most densely populated regions of the world. Municipalities …
President Ram Baran Yadav on Thursday officially launched the Sanitation and Hygiene Master Plan-2011, which is aimed at providing sanitation programmes to every household by 2017. Nepal needs to provide a complete sanitation package including cleanliness of houses and their surrounding, offices, schools, toilets, and safe water supply to 53 …
Under the national sanitationproject, a plan has been taken to construct 4,60,000 sanitary latrines acrossthe country as part of the government initiatives to achieve 100 per centsanitation by 2013. This was disclosed on Wednesdayat a meeting of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Ministry of LGRDand Cooperatives that was held …
New Delhi: After ensuring drinking water in all government schools by fixing October 15 as the deadline, the Supreme Court on Thursday took the next step by asking the states and Union territories to fix a time period within which boys and girls would get separate toilet facilities. Abench of …
Department of Public Health and Engineering (DPHE) has taken up massive plan to bring all the families of the district under 100 percent sanitation coverage by 2013. The aim of the cent percent sanitation coverage is to ensure hygienic atmosphere and to protect the children and the mass communities from …
Govt, Infosys enter into an agreement to build 10,000 toilets designed by software engineer There’s relief in the pipeline for the residents of Gulbarga’s villages. For, their embarrassment of answering the call of nature in the open may soon be flushed down the eco-sanitation dry compost toilets, designed by native …
The BJP government, which is planning to launch the 'Save Girl'campaign from October 5 across the state with great fanfare, is considering framing of a law making it mandatory for husbands to take care of their spouses parents, if they have no son. Confirming it, official sources said the proposal …
The Delhi Development Authority has issued guidelines for its neighbourhood parks to ensure their uniform maintenance and development standards. The new guidelines also comes with a measure of public participation in park development and maintenance as feedback from park users will be invited before undertaking works on park premises. The …
