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 …
This paper questions the accuracy and validity of the criticisms made by Ananya Roy regarding the approach to community development of a Mumbai-based NGO, SPARC, and its partner grassroots federations in Mumbai. This includes the suggestion that the focus on sanitation rather than on land tenure is an appeal to …
LUCKNOW: For the second year running, Uttar Pradesh has continued its poor performance on the rural hygiene front. After 2009, when six gram panchayats bagged the Nirmal Gram Puraskar, this year, the state has marked a marginal improvement, with the number of such gram panchayats having risen to 13. However, …
Chandigarh Taking a cue from the MCD, Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh (CMC) is planning to set up waterless urinals to check the depleting water table in the Union Territory. The corporation has joined hands with AG Aqua Solutions for installing waterless urinals. This is the same company that had joined …
Count the number of public toilets for women in India, or the availability of something as basic as low-cost sanitary napkins, and the invisibility of women
The Municipal Corporation has decided to buy out eight prototype high-end toilet complexes built on its land from private developers following the Lieutenant-Governor's direction to scrap the project's further extension owing to heavy public criticism. The decision was announced after a meeting of the MCD on Monday attended by Delhi …
It has developed an eco-friendly toilet that costs less than 20 dollars NEW DELHI: Sulabh International on Wednesday said it would introduce its cost-effective, environment-friendly toilet technology in South-East Asia. It has decided to construct public toilets in the 10-member ASEAN (Association of South-East Asian Nations) countries with the help …
The Delhi Assembly's Environment Committee has urged Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit to chair a high-level meeting to address the deplorable condition of community toilet complexes in the Capital. It wants these complexes to be brought under the Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board to ensure their proper upkeep. The Environment Committee …
Construction of eco-friendly toilet is need of the hour to maintain cleanliness and hygiene, opined H T Chandrashekahr, Additional Deputy Commissioner here. Speaking after inaugurating the newly-constructed toilets at Medara block in Chamarajanagar, on Monday, he said there has been a ban on carrying night soil in the entire country. …
To Improve sanitation facilities in the city, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation is conducting a survey of spots/areas that require public toilets. Following the state government
Every time the Coimbatore Corporation receives a call from another local body in the State, it knows a request for hiring its mobile toilets is coming. There is a huge demand for the 60 toilets the corporation purchased for around Rs. 4 crore to cater to the city's visitors during …
Old hats, I Multi-level parking lots, community centre gyms and toilets for women find their way back into new proposals After two months of discussions, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) on Monday presented its final budget, with proposals bearing a striking similarity with those doing the rounds for the …
The World Bank has offered to Kosi flood relief beneficiaries an incentive that is expected to put the reconstruction process on fast track: rebuild your houses in six months and get toilets and solar lights worth Rs 7,300 free of cost. The offer stands for 1,00,00 beneficiaries under the $259 …
BHUBANESWAR: For instilling a sense of sanitation and making people aware of use of toilets 81 panchayats of nine districts will get Nirmal Gram Puraskar (NGP), a national award for fully sanitised and open defecation-free panchayats under Total Sanitation Programme-2010. Representatives of 12 panchayats will be awarded by President of …
The Sampoorna Swachatha Andolan, the Central government project to ensure total sanitation in rural areas has found itself lagging behind in Kolar district. The project was implemented in October 2, 2005. The district has achieved only 51 per cent in its implementation and worse is it may not be able …
CHENNAI: The Madras High Court on Tuesday directed the State government to take up with the Centre a matter relating to necessary amendment to the Employment of Manual Scavengers and Construction of Dry Latrines (Prohibition) Act. The First Bench, comprising Chief Justice M.Y. Eqbal and Justice T.S. Sivagnanam, gave the …
BHUBANESWAR: This might appear a tall order but the State Government has set a goal of turning urban Orissa totally sanitised by 2016-17 in tune with the National Urban Policy. The Government, which aims at creating community driven healthy towns, has come up with the Urban Sanitation Strategy to free …
Govt orders new survey of dry latrines; to amend existing laws After 61 years of India becoming a Republic, the country has realised that more people than it so far thought could be engaged in the abhorrent practice of manual scavenging. Following this realisation, the government on Wednesday ordered a …
