Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Abhishek Panwar Vs Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board & Others dated 20/05/2025. The miscellaneous application was registered on the basis of the report of the joint committee dated July 20, 2024 filed by the Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board (UPPCB) …
Despite Total Sanitation Campaign leading to increase in the number of households with toilet in the State, adoption of proper sanitation practices by the population still remains a far cry. While the use of toilets, even by adults, in rural areas is sub-optimal and largely limited to female members of …
Royal HaskoningDHV to prepare sanitation plan for the capital city, which would be later implemented in other parts of the State With Goa striving to meet the target of providing 100 per cent sanitation to the entire state by 2014 end, the Union Urban Development Ministry has come to the …
Five districts of Garo hills today pledged to ensure an aggressive approach towards meeting the mandate of Nirmal (Clean) Meghalaya by 2017. The deputy commissioners of the five districts gave presentations at the two day consultative workshop on “Nirmal Meghalaya” highlighting the substantial gains, which have been made to increase …
Meghalaya, which is still facing the problem of open defecation, has set a target for nirmal (clean) state for the year 2014-15. Giving a presentation at a two-day consultative workshop towards achieving “Nirmal Meghalaya” organised here today, Meghalaya PHE additional chief engineer P.K. Pandey said the target set componentwise for …
The Ministry, with the assistance of Water and Sanitation Program (WSP), has put together a second volume of Compendium of Best Practices on Rural Sanitation titled ‘Pathway to Success’. This is in continuation with the first volume, titled ‘From Dreams to Reality’, released in 2010. The 16 success stories documented …
Regretting that people still use open toilets all over the country, Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram today stressed the need to expedite and intensify implementation of the total sanitation programme to prevent such habits. Inaugurating a sanitation facility for 15 schools in this district, he said the UPA government's law …
The change in mindset of rural people alone will bring about a change in society and yield desirable results in total sanitation programme, according to Collector N. Venkatachalam. Addressing the gathering after flagging off an awareness rally on public health and clean environment here on Tuesday, he said offering funds …
New Delhi: Sikkim has become the only state in the country to achieve more than 100 per cent sanitation in rural and urban households, schools, sanitary complexes and Aanganwadi centres. All 6,10,577 inhabitants in Sikkim have latrines with high sanitation and hygiene standards. The Himalayan state has constructed 98,043 individual …
In a country ranked poorly on the health and environment front, Sikkim has done remarkably well to become India’s first State with 100 per cent sanitation coverage, according to a report of the drinking water and sanitation ministry. Sikkim, one of the eight Northeastern States nestled prettily in the eastern …
Gandhigram Trust has motivated people to avoid open defecation The Gandhigram Trust has adopted three blocks – Batlgundu, Nilakottai and Athoor – in the district for ensuring total rural sanitation with community participation. As the first step towards implementing its plan, the trust has motivated people to avoid open defecation. …
An estimated 2.5 billion people worldwide lack access to improved sanitation facilities. While large-scale programs in some countries have increased latrine coverage, they sometimes fail to ensure optimal latrine use, including the safe disposal of child feces, a significant source of exposure to fecal pathogens. We undertook a cross-sectional study …
This report is a compilation of best practices on convergence of MGNREGA with other schemes from fourteen states across the country - Andhra Pradesh, A& N Islands, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Kerala, Odisha, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, and Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal. Recognizing the need for …
Solid and liquid waste management programme is going to begin in 31 Gram Panchayats with above 10,000 population in the state under Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan. The programme will be implemented in 18 districts through state water and sanitation mission. Process to prepare DPR for this has started. Besides, necessary directives …
India is the world's largest open air lavatory with over 620 million people practising open defecation in the country. Seeking to address this persisting problem, the UPA government has widened the scope of its flagship Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) to include works relating to rural sanitation …
This paper estimates two sources of benefits related to sanitation infrastructure access on early childhood health: a direct benefit a household receives when moving from open to fixed-point defecation or from unimproved sanitation to improved sanitation, and an external benefit (externality) produced by the neighborhood’s access to sanitation infrastructure. The …
The main objective of the CSR Guideline with regard to Sanitation would be as: To promote better human health and improve quality of life among people living in rural areas through improved sanitation measures, including adoption and creation of Adarsh Gram (model village) for all types of Water and Sanitation …
The authorities in Sirsa will construct 14,193 toilets in private houses, schools and anganwadi centres at a cost of Rs 14.49 crore under the Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan. The district authorities have already released funds for this scheme. Shiv Prashad Sharma, Additional Deputy Commissioner, Sirsa, addressed heads of schools, anganwadi centres …
Actor Vidya Balan, ambassador of Centre’s flagship sanitation programme, would probably think twice if she were ever to associate with Odisha. For, the State Government has made a mess of the Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) having miserably failed to meet the target of toilet construction. An interim report of the …
In a bid to save fragile ecology of tribal Kinnaur district located along China border, Kinnaur district administration has decided to launch door-to-door garbage collection scheme besides setting up a solid waste disposal plant. But before that a sensitization and awareness programme would be launched during which efforts would be …
With over 600 million people in India or 53 per cent of Indian households defecating in the open, the absence of toilets/latrines is one of the major contributors to malnutrition, a World Bank report has said. The report that released Monday on the eve of the first ever UN World …
