Counter affidavit on behalf of Chief Municipal Engineer, Patna Nagar Nigam in the matter of Saurav Narayan Vs Bihar Pollution Control Board & Others dated May 20, 2025. The report said that the corporation has been diligently performing its statutory duties within the limitations of the available resources and infrastructure. …
In 2022, FINISH Mondial and the Sanitation Learning Hub conducted a participatory and immersive research study to understand ground realities and lived experiences of sanitation and hygiene access in Nandurbar district, Maharashtra and Darbhanga district, Bihar in India. The main objectives for the immersion were to identify challenges and barriers …
The Swachhta Action Plan has been mainstreamed under the Environmental Information, Awareness, Capacity building and livelihood Programme of the Scheme “Environment Education, Awareness, Research and Skill Development”. The scope of the Program now also includes building of bio-toilets at National Parks and Centuries to educate visitors regarding Cleanliness.
This publication showcases a compilation of project briefs culled from case studies of good practices, new approaches, and working models on sanitation and wastewater management from different countries. The project briefs demonstrate solution options from which useful lessons can be derived. Not only do they illustrate how sanitation and wastewater …
Proper awareness, collective behavior change, coupled with availability of sustainable technologies for construction and usage of toilets are important aspects of SBM. There are a wide range of hydro-geological conditions in different states of India. It is challenging to make one technology applicable in all areas. Selection of on-site sanitation …
Sanitation has attracted increasing political attention in the global development agenda during the last two decades. National governments, development and donor agencies have been rethinking pathways to achieving sanitation and hygiene for all. Policies are considered critical for creating an enabling environment for improving access to sanitation and hygiene services. …
Sanitation has attracted increasing political attention in the global development agenda during the last two decades. National governments, development and donor agencies have been rethinking pathways to achieving sanitation and hygiene for all. Policies are considered critical for creating an enabling environment for improving access to sanitation and hygiene services. …
KANPUR: For the first time in any event of IIT-Kanpur, waterless urinals and zero discharge toilet system (ZDTS) have been installed for use. Techkriti-2015 is the first event to witness the use of waterless urinals and ZDTS. Developed by Dr Vinod Tare, professor of environmental engineering last year, it was …
Aiming to provide next level of ease of doing business in India, the government today said it will soon put in place transparency in public procurement of green products. Currently, environmental and green procurement laws in the country are under the purview of several ministries and other government bodies, often …
The overall aim of the Economics of Sanitation Initiative (ESI) is to promote evidence-based decision making to increase the volume, effectiveness, and sustainability of sanitation expenditure. The evidence produced is useful for a range of stakeholders, including governments at national and subnational levels, donors, nongovernmental organizations, program managers, and the …
Reaffirming its commitment for environment conservation, Tata Steel dedicated the first fixed Bio-Toilet Unit at Auction Yard Gate at its Jamshedpur plant. Suresh Dutt Tripathi, vice president, HRM, Tata Steel, inaugurated the new facility. The construction of a conventional toilet and connecting it to the main sewer line was a …
Mumbai: Every Indian has a fundamental right to live in a pollution-fee environment and at the same time every citizen has a fundamental duty to protect and conserve nature, the Bombay high court has said. Hearing a public interest litigation to save Godavari river in Nashik—considered to be sacred, a …
Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital authorities will soon send a request to Chennai Corporation for green toilets on its premises. Soon after the launch of Amma Canteen at the hospital, the toilets near it were shut down citing maintenance of hygiene. On Tuesday, a number of outpatients and attendants of …
Following the passage of the ‘Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Bill, 2013’ in Parliament last week, leading NGO Sulabh International on Monday appointed seven former women scavengers as ‘ombudsmen’. They will lead a campaign to make India a manual scavenging-free nation. Terming it a “symbolic step” …
After Chief Minister Dr Mukul Sangma, the eco-friendly bio-digester toilets mainly used by the army in high altitude regions of the Himalayas has caught the fascination of Community and Rural Development (C&RD;) Minister Prestone Tynsong during his recent visit to Lakshadweep. “We are planning to introduce Bio digester toilet technology …
27 e-toilets have been installed in Pathanamthitta district The Additional District Magistrate H. Salimraj has directed the Keltron as well as the Eram Scientific Solutions Limited that had installed e-toilets in different parts of the district to ensure trouble-free functioning of all the 27 e-toilets in the district in the …
Pune: Religious tourism in the state is set to receive a major boost as the Union tourism ministry has sanctioned financial assistance of Rs 44 crore for the development of the Solapur mega circuit, which includes the pilgrimage spots of Pandharpur, Akkalkot, Tuljapur and Solapur. The Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation …
The Ganga Action Parivar (GAP) has taken primary steps towards constructing the first zero-waste, “bio-digester” toilet in Uttar Pradesh along the banks of the Ganga. The initiative is part of GAP’s drive to build 5,000 eco-friendly toilets in villages along the 2,500-km stretch of the Ganga and also integrates its …
However, there is a hike in the additional charges that are levied The Railway Budget for 2013-14 today spared passengers from any further hike in fares but raised various other charges on tickets along with freight tariff of less than 5%. Presenting the Budget in the Lok Sabha, Railway Minister …
JAMMU: N N Vohra, Governor, has called for urgent utilization of eco-friendly technologies for the sustained protection of environment and ecology. The Governor said this while receiving a detailed presentation by a team of senior scientists of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) on bio-digester based eco-friendly toilets, at …
