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) …
India is experiencing paradigm shift in rural sanitation with the launch of the Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC). Mobilisation, motivation and innovative financial incentives are bringing about positive sanitation and hygiene behaviour changes amongst rural communities. This document seeks to capture successful case studies, success stories, and best practices from States …
Exposed, untreated excrement can kill by the million. One of the hardest-won UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is a 2015 target of halving the proportion of those without sustainable access to safe drinking water and adequate sanitation. Even if achieved, the target would still leave some 500 million on the …
Charanjit Ahuja Chandigarh: The Himachal Pradesh government has been able to cover 78% of its rural population under rural employment guarantee scheme. Sources in the rural development department told FE
Visakhapatnam, July 12: Stating that there was an urgent need to launch total sanitation programme in the city, the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) commissioner, Mr V.N. Vishnu, said that over four lakh people living within the GVMC limits live in areas where sanitation facil-ities are not prevalent. This was …
Gulbarga district stands last place in the State with regard to the construction of toilets under the total sanitation programme. The project to construct free toilets for Below Poverty LIne population was introduced in the State in 2005-06 and will be in force for two more years. By now, 4.5 …
Traveling around in Arunachal Pradesh is an experience of a lifetime. With geographical and infrastructural hurdles, very less mortals must have done the globe-trotting business here except for Tomi Ete, a technocrat in various capacities as a government employee. At least he had the endurance to turn all his on-job …
Authorities asked to improve sanitary conditions in schools and anganwadi centres General review:E.G. Sugavanam MP (centre) addressing the district monitoring committee meeting at the Collectorate on Tuesday. Collector V. Arun Roy (left) and Additional Collector (Development) KRISHNAGIRI: Twenty-four village panchayats in the district have been selected and recommended to the …
The vision of A Nirmal Bharat! is the dream of a nation where every person has an aspiration and right to live in an environment, which is clean and healthy. It is an environment where the people living within imbibes and practices living in a clean environment as a way …
The main objectives of the TSC are: Bring about an improvement in the general quality of life in the rural areas; Accelerate sanitation coverage in rural areas to access to toilets to all by 2012; Motivate communities and Panchayati Raj Institutions promoting sustainable sanitation facilities through awareness creation and health …
This document is the culmination of research and discussions on the experiences of civil society organisations implementing sustainable sanitation campaigns in six Indian states. The initiatives featured in the book indicate that a typical campaign spread over three to five years comprises four distinct phases and involves a series of …
The objective of this study is to identify lessons for improving cookstoves in Bangladesh through an evaluation of existing programs, the international experience on improved stoves, and the lessons from successes in the sanitation sector. Bangladesh
Five hundred and forty-five million mobile phones. 665 million people defecating in the open (the Chinese figure is 37 million). Courtesy, United Nations University, these numbers have grabbed headlines. We have had a total sanitation campaign (TSC) since 1999, with subsidies to rural poor households for constructing individual household toilets, …
Special training programme for panchayat presidents inaugurated Award is for successfully implementing total sanitation preventing defecation in open places All panchayats should take efforts to implement total sanitation and win this award: Collector THENI: Five panchayats in the district won the Nirmal Gram Purashkar Award for 2008-09 for successful implementation …
The Central Government has released grants to Assam, Mizoram and West Bengal to ensure total sanitation that includes doing away with the practice of open defecation in rural areas. "The Ministry of Rural Development has released grant in aid worth Rs 564.03 lakh to two districts in Assam under the …
