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 …
Agra has stood at 57th place in progress report on sanitation and hygienic conditions in the state government-run primary and upper primary schools. Out of the 3,006 schools managed by the basic education department in the district, just one was registered for the Swachh Vidyalaya Puruskar instituted recently by the …
A workshop on open defecation was held at the cultural complex on Sunday. It was attended by around 400 gram pradhans (village heads). They discussed strategies and practices implemented in different villages to make them free of open defecation. The gram pradhans revealed how they walked shoulder-to-shoulder with the teams …
Sikkim has been adjudged the cleanest State while Jharkhand comes last in the list on the condition of sanitation in rural areas of 26 states. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home State, Gujarat is ranked 14th. The results of the survey carried out last year by the National Sample Survey Office …
Caught in a debt trap after constructing toilets under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Swachh Bharat Mission (SMB), sarpanchs of eleven villages in Kanker district of tribal Bastar region have threatened to commit suicide if their payment is not released within a month. Toilets had been built by the sarpranchs through …
LEH: Residents of Ladakh, reeling under a severe water crisis, want tourists to use traditional dry toilets instead of the commonly-used flush ones. The region gets scant rains and depends on glaciers for water for daily needs. But due to global warming, the glaciers are depleting fast, posing a serious …
American design student Virginia Gardiner did not expect to end up finding her muse in a toilet, or find power and profit out of poo. She also did not expect to find herself and the waterless toilet she designed for wasteful westerners (originally it was embraced by posh festivalgoers), on …
Swachh Bharat Mission Gramin - SBM (G) endeavours to accelerate rural sanitation coverage, reduce open defecation and improve management of solid and liquid wastes. It focuses on ensuring usage of toilets along with their construction. There is a strong emphasis on behaviour change, including a focus on interpersonal communication; strengthening …
PUNE: Over 97,000 homes in the rural parts of Pune district still do not have toilets. The district administration has now decided to construct them by October 2 to achieve 100% sanitation status under the Union government's Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. The administration has warned that citizens failing to construct toilets …
DEHRADUN: One of the main objectives of the Swachh Bharat Mission is to get all villages and towns to become open defecation free (ODF) which had to be achieved by 2019. Any region which has sufficient number of household, community and public toilets is said to be open defecation free. …
BAREILLY: The claim of residents of Saijna village that the three minor sisters found dead in a river nearby would have been alive if there had been a toilet at home reveals the continued shortfall in terms of toilets at individual houses in the district. A base-line survey conducted by …
The document titled ‘The True Cost of Poor Sanitation’ was compiled by Oxford Economics to determine the link between cost of sanitation and the factors behind it. But for a continent fraught with epidemics, the report by the Japanese firm paints a grim picture of sanitation on the continent. The …
A survey of over 450 government schools across nine states has shown that on an average, one toilet is used by 76 boys while 66 girls make do with one washroom. The assessment of water sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in schools was conducted by WaterAid, an international charity , two …
Lack of access to sanitation cost the global economy US$222.9 billion in 2015, up from US$182.5 billion in 2010, a rise of 22%. This report uses the same economic assumptions from previous research undertaken by the World Bank's Water and Sanitation Program (WSP), and uses modelling techniques to build on …
Dakshina Kannada district in-charge Minister B. Ramanath Rai on Monday said that Dakshina Kannada will be declared open defecation-free shortly as most of the households have come to have toilets. Speaking after unfurling the tricolour at the Nehru Maidan here, Mr. Rai said that as per a survey done under …
Residents of these households relieve themselves in open places, drains or railway tracks. Hyderabad: Around 70,000 households in Hyderabad, mostly in the suburbs, do not have individual toilets. Officials said that as per the Samagra Kutumba Survey, residents of these households relieve themselves in open places, drains or railway tracks. …
Over 30 African water ministers and high-level delegations from 53 African nations have adopted a roadmap aimed at achieving sustainable and universal access to safe water and sanitation in the continent. The adoption of the roadmap titled "the Dar es Salaam Roadmap for achieving the N'gor Commitments on Water Security …
Official records state that 28.7 of the population of people in Nigeria still practice open defecation. Only 34 percent of people have access to improved sanitation facilities, 30 per cent have access to shared facilities, and 46.1 per cent to non-improved. Minister of Water Resources, Engr. Suleiman Hussaini Adamu gave …
The United Nations Children’s Education Fund (UNICEF) on Wednesday said 276 communities across the country have been certified open defecation-free. UNICEF Chief of Field Office, Kaduna, Utpal Moitra made this known in Minna at a mid-year review of 2016 UNICEF State plan for Niger. Moitra said that about 97, 000 …
RAIPUR: As district administrations across Chhattisgarh are aiming to go Open Defecation Free by August 15 and January 26, nearly 90 tribal school girls residing at a residential school in Maoist-hotbed Bastar division, walk with a mug 200 metres away from the hostel to relieve themselves in forest. Besides danger …
India’s ambitious sanitation drive has created a health hazard, with many toilets built cheek by jowl with family water supplies June in Odisha state’s Puri district, and the mercury is hitting 39C. The monsoon is still days away but, when it comes, the Mahanadi river could flood low-lying villages, as …
