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) …
Pune Eight sarpanchs, 21 deputy sarpanchs and 276 gram sabha members could be asked to step down For sarpanch Kachru Tanhu Padwal from Chandivalli, in Mulshi taluka, it may be an untimely exit from his post this year. The reason: not constructing the mandatory toilet block under the sanitation programme …
NEW DELHI: Princess Mathilde of Belgium on Tuesday called upon developing countries to adopt low-cost toilet technology promoted by non-government organisation Sulabh International to achieve
TURA: The Meghalaya Government has given rewards of fifty thousand rupees each to twelve Garo villages in East Garo Hills district for successfully undertaking the Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) of the central government achieving the target goal of hundred percent. In these villages each household has a pucca latrine to …
A high-level Nigerian delegation of parliamentarians met Union Rural Development Minister CP Joshi and evinced interest in the development initiatives of the Government of India for the rural population. The 20-member Nigerian team was led by Chairman of House Committee on Millennium Development Goals of that country Adewale Aribisala. In …
The main objectives of Nirmal Gram Puraskar (NGP) are: to bring sanitation to the forefront of social and political discourse for development in rural India; to develop open defecation free and clean villages that will act as models for others to emulate; to give incentive to PRIs to sustain the …
UNICEF India Country Office representative Karin Hulshof on Wednesday assured full support to the Government to accelerate the Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) while addressing an assembly of Deputy Commissioners, Zila Parishad representatives, Government engineers and other officials here. To ensure speedy progress in provision of rural sanitation and safe drinking …
KHONSA, Feb 4: The Tirap District Water & Sanitation Committee headed by the Deputy Commissioner as Chairman and PHED Executive Engineer as Member Secretary was constituted here yesterday. DC W Lowang urged the members to create awareness among people on sanitation campaign to make the programme a success, while Zilla …
The State government will construct 33 lakh toilets in the next two years, announced Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Minister Jagadish Shettar on Thursday. The drive will be taken up in villages under the
JOWAI: The Jaintia Hills Deputy Commissioner has declared Jowai town as a "free plastic zone" under the Total Sanitation Campaign. The declaration was made on Thursday, on the occasion of the 38th Statehood day. In its endeavour to make Jowai town a free plastic zone, the District Administration has announced …
As many as 23 Gram Panchayats in the district will be receiving Nirmal Gram Puraskar on January 28. With this all 203 GPs in the district will be getting the Nirmal Gram tag. District Chief Planning Officer T J Takat Rao informed this to the district vigilance and monitoring committee …
KOHIMA, Dec 27: Stating that sanitation is a basic requirement for ensuring a better quality of life, the State Government aims to achieve complete sanitation coverage in Nagaland through Total Sanitation Campaign in keeping with the Government of India target of
BHUBANESWAR: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today called upon the panchayat representatives to create a clean atmosphere in the villages through the Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC). Addressing a function organised here today to give away the
ITANAGAR, Nov 24: Governor Gen (Retd) J J Singh gave away the Nirmal Gram Puraskar (NGP) awards to ten Gram Panchayats in a glittering ceremony, organized by the Public Health Engineering Department, at the banquet hall of Raj Bhavan here today. Quoting Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi, Singh said,
NEW DELHI: President Pratibha Patil on Tuesday called for enrolling women in a big way to make cleanliness a pivotal campaign in the rural areas and to build character and healthy habits among children. Addressing the winners of the Nirmal Gram Puraskars for the year 2009, the President emphasised on …
Each and every member of the village should make honest efforts in achieving the target set by the Swachchatha Andolana, suggested Director of Grama Swachchtha Andolana institute Boregowda. He was speaking at a workshop organised at the auditorium of the Zilla Panchayat, for the benefit of the 50 grama panchayats, …
