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 …
Buffalo City municipality claims that 98% of households have access to flush toilets 75m metres or less from their houses. But these claims mean little to the more than 20 families in Mdantsane NU1 informal settlement who have to share a single toilet. Three toilets were initially installed in the …
GURGAON: The Haryana government will no more give subsidy for constructing toilets but would provide incentives to village panchayats and municipal corporations for maintaining cleanliness, officials said on Wednesday. Additional Chief Secretary of Rural Development Department Navraj Sandhu said efforts will be made to change the mindset of the people …
Noida: The NCR RWA has written to the PM and minister of road transport and highways, Nitin Gadkari, demanding toilets on national highways. "There is a lack of toilets or public convenience facilities on national highways across the country. This causes inconvenience to commuters of public transport," said P S …
THE AGRICULTURE ministry has constructed 2 645 ventilated double pit toilets at a cost of N$108 million in various regions of the country since 2014. The agriculture ministry's spokesperson Margaret Kalo confirmed that the improved toilets are part of the ministry's water supply and sanitation national strategy project, adopted in …
The West Bengal government has set a target to construct toilets across all villages of the state by March 2019 to enable open defecation free (ODF) rural Bengal, an official said. "By March 2019, we plan to have toilets across all rural homes in the state," Dibyendu Sarkar, commissioner in …
Kosis — Disposing of human waste has become a part of her life - she must empty the bucket when it is full of human faeces and she washes the bucket to use it again when nature calls. The bucket system is synonymous with many villages and settlements in //Karas …
BAREILLY: Giving a big Swachh Bharat push towards ending open defecation in rural areas, the district's cleanliness committee has approved construction of nearly 69,000 toilets in the region with an approved budget of Rs 2.18 crore. Speaking to TOI, additional district panchayati raj officer (ADPRO) Vinay Singh said, "A total …
BHOPAL: Madhya Pradesh cabinet chaired by chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Tuesday decided that candidates contesting panchayat elections must compulsorily have flush and water-flow based toilets in their residences, or they would not be eligible to contest the elections. This would be implemented for all three-tiers of panchayats from …
Puducherry government has drawn up a massive Rs 120 crore plan to build toilets for 55,000 households in the union territory without the facility under the Swachh Bharath Abhiyan scheme, Chief Minister V arayanasamy said here today. The CM said he had urged the Prime Minister to make available the …
To do away with any concerns about the rating method, data reported by the facilities themselves on the management information system (MIS) every month will be used to give the ratings. Star-ratings will no longer be the benchmark of luxury alone. Public health institutions in the country will soon be …
Construction of toilets likely to be completed in September This year’s Kerala Foundation Day on November 1 may turn out to be special for Ernakulam in another way as well if things work out as planned. A meeting of local body heads held at the District Collectorate here on Monday …
Bhubaneswar: As many as 1,842 villages in the state have been declared open defecation-free so far. This apart, the Odisha goverment has also announced 113 gram panchayats and a block as being free of open defecation. Kashinagar block in Gajapati also earned the open defecation-free (ODF) tag recently. A senior …
Collector to appoint a resource person each for every 2 mandals. Nellore: As many as 100 villages in SPSR Nellore district were declared as open defecation free (ODF) areas as part of Swachh Bharat programme. Credit goes to district collector M Janaki and the workforce of AP Rural Water Supply …
Agra: Suffering decades of government apathy and embarrassment due to open defecation, hundreds of women from the Kanjara community staged a massive protest outside a local police station at Bah on Tuesday and demanded immediate construction of toilets . Around 250 of them said harassment caused by open defecation is …
Refuses to give NOC for permanent structures The Delhi government’s promise to provide 19,000 toilets as part of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan by the end of this year in slum clusters is hanging fire. Even with the funds at their disposal and other resources available, officials say that No Objection …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Abhimanyu Rathor Vs. State of Himachal Pradesh & Others dated 31/05/2016 regarding environmental degradation of Rohtang Pass in Himachal Pradesh. Tribunal directed the State of Himmachal Pradesh that barrier at Gulaba should be re-designed and maintained properly. It should have …
In Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, locals are inhaling a breath of fresh air as a result of a major face-lift of its sanitation services. This has given hope against an otherwise precarious situation. Misgana Dormiso who polishes shoes along a busy street in the capital said working out in the …
Almost half of Kenyans living in rural areas do not have access to basic sanitation, a new report shows. A survey report launched on Wednesday in Nairobi by the Ministry of Health's Environmental Health Department with the support of the World Bank Group's Water and Sanitation Programme (WSP) says access …
Waste management remains one of the biggest challenges for Ghana. Whereas many homes in the capital, Accra do not have access to toilet facilities, those who do face the dilemma of how to dispose off the waste when their septic tanks are full. For years, human excreta from across the …
Nashik: The Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC), which was a late starter in getting toilets constructed under the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan because of the Kumbh Mela, has constructed 1,767 toilets lavatories so far and aims to take the figure to 6,950 by August-end. During the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan meeting in Mumbai …
