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) …
Total sanitation programme which was so far been executed by the Rural Development Department is permissible under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS). “If construction of toilets has not been included in the labour budget for 2012-13, supplementary annual action plan and labour budget to include the …
SILCHAR: Though there has been significant increase in facilities for providing drinking water to more and more habitations during the period 2005 - 2010 by the two divisions of public health engineering department in Cachar district, the question about the quality of water has been raised in competent civil circles. …
Ranchi, July 24: The Saranda villagers’ wish of getting piped water and toilets at their houses may actually get fulfilled. Engineer-in-chief of the state drinking water and sanitation department (DWSD) Shardendu Narayan, who visited two panchayats — Lilor and Makranda — in Saranda forest area under West Singhbhum’s Manoharpur block …
Poverty, delays in release of funds hamper ‘Total Sanitation Campaign’ Efforts to make the ‘Total Sanitation Campaign’ a success in the district appear to have lost momentum. Even after the State government has planned to increase the allocation of funds from Rs 3,000 to Rs 10,000 per toilet, the rate …
A new WSP working paper, What Does It Take to Scale Up Rural Sanitation? shares lessons and best practices that were identified to: generate demand for sanitation at the household and community level; increase the supply of affordable, aspirational sanitation products and services; and strengthen local and national governments to …
The main objectives of the NBA are as: Bring about an improvement in the general quality of life in the rural areas; Accelerate sanitation coverage in rural areas to achieve the vision of Nirmal Bharat by 2022 with all gram Panchayats in the country attaining Nirmal status; Motivate communities and …
Calcutta, June 27: The Mamata Banerjee government will soon launch a drive to find out the number of people involved in manual scavenging and offer them alternatives, the move coming days after the Centre pulled up the state for its failure to curb the humiliating practice. Chief secretary Samar Ghosh …
MANGALDAI, June 25 – The Public Health Engineering Department will ensure flouride and arsenic-free drinking water by the end of 2014, for which the department has already adopted an exclusive project at an estimated cost of Rs 100 crore, said Gautam Roy, Minister for Public Health Engineering Department at a …
DRDO applauded for developing the toilets Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh on Sunday announced that his Ministry would soon sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Ministry of Defence for installation of bio-toilets in 1000 gram panchayats across the country. It would go a long way in improving …
JAIPUR: Chief minister Ashok Gehlot has recommended that the state's Mukhya Mantri Gramin BPL Awas Yojana be extended across the country to grant the citizens a "right to shelter". Gehlot made the suggestion to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, considering the scheme's popularity among Rajasthan's weaker sections. Gehlot earlier put forward …
Experts of UNICEF visited village Ratanpur in Sehore district today to take stock development works being carried out in the rural areas under Total Sanitation Campaign and efforts for creating awareness towards sanitation among villagers. UNICEF sanitation expert Shri Gregor and his team were accompanied by senior officers of Madhya …
Experts of UNICEF visited village Ratanpur in Sehore district on Friday to take stock development works being carried out in the rural areas under the Total Sanitation Campaign and efforts for creating awareness on sanitation among villagers. UNICEF sanitation expert Gregor and his team were accompanied by senior officers of …
Uttar Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh give contrasting pictures of the sanitation story in the country. While the latter swears by subsidised toilet building, the latter gave up the subsidy offer route long before. And, while UP is far away from total sanitation, the latter has declared itself Open Defecation Free. …
New Delhi: In a boost to making rural India free from open defecation, the Centre has increased the grant for construction of a toilet under the Total Sanitation Campaign from Rs 4,600 to Rs 10,000. The increase is in line with realistic estimates of construction, with many states having complained …
Finally, there is good news for the people of Haryana as the state is set to become 100 per cent defecation-free and achieve complete sanitation in next two years. While Haryana has resolved to achieve the goal in two years, its neighbouring state Punjab has set five-year time for the …
Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India had vide notification no. S.O. 2265(E) & S.O. 2266(E) dated 30th September, 2011, expanded the scope of works under schedule 1 Para 1 (ix) to include Access to Sanitation facilities and issued operational guidelines for these works. As per extant guidelines, assistance under …
The Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) has provided technical assistance to support government efforts to scale up rural sanitation since 2007 through Scaling Up Rural Sanitation (TSSM). One of the central objectives of this initiative is to learn how to improve rural sanitation at a scale sufficient to meet the …
Roping in the services of cargo head load workers, porters and call taxi drivers along with the conservancy staff, the railway authorities on Wednesday launched a total sanitation drive as well as a campaign to generate awareness among the rail users. The drive was led by Salem Railway Divisional Superintendent …
NONGSTOIN: Thousands of people participated in the Total Sanitation Campaign programme organised by the State Water and Sanitation Board in collaboration with the District Water and Sanitation Mission at Mawkyrwat on Wednesday. Deputy Chief Minister Rowell Lyngdoh was the chief guest on the occasion. The main objective of the Campaign …
After patting on the back by announcing that he would give one per cent of the annual budget of the ministry for rural development (`99,000 crores) to the ministry of panchayati raj, Union minister Jairam Ramesh is faced with reality check — that it is not he who can do …
