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) …
The panel, headed by Chandrababu Naidu, finalised its report on Swachh Bharat Mission If the government accepts the recommendations of Niti Aayog’s Chief Ministers’ panel, petrol and telecom services may become dearer. To fund the government’s ambitious Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM), the committee has suggested levying cess on these commodities …
Islands of filth dot the upscale areas of Ghaziabad in NCR, nearly a year after Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched his Swachh Bharat campaign. Right in the middle of a residential area on Kala Patthar Road in Gyan Khand II of Indirapuram, under the noses of the civic authorities, a …
MUMBAI: The BMC has received Rs 8 crore from the state government to build public toilets in the city under the Modi-government promoted Swachh Bharat campaign. Around 11 lakh people use public toilets and the BMC already provides most of them, said an officer. In 2014, the Centre has issued …
Union Minister for Rural Development and Drinking Water and Sanitation Shri Birender Singh said that the pace of construction of toilets in rural India has gathered momentum and within one year of the launch of Swachh Bharat Mission, about 95 lakh toilets were constructed across the country against the target …
Move to make elimination of open defecation a people’s movement The district administration and the District Rural Development Agency (DRDA) have decided to make the elimination of open defecation a people’s movement by enlisting various sections of the people such as women, youth, students, civil society organisations, service organisations and …
While the government is taking various steps for pollution control through national campaigns like Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, actress Soha Ali Khan believes our lifestyle is the problem which prevents us from making changes in our daily lives. "Whether it's industrialisation, modernisation or migration, the by-product is pollution. There is very …
As part of eliminating open defecation, 60 village panchayats in the district will have Individual Household Latrine (IHHL) and these villages will also be declared as ‘Open Defecation-Free Villages’ from October 2. Under the Swatch Bharat Mission (Rural) that aims at achieving universal sanitation, the district administration has proposed to …
These are historic times in the field of sanitation in India. "Swachh Bharat", described by the Prime Minister as "a massive mass movement that seeks to create a Clean India", has captured the imagination of a large section of the population. The strong central government emphasis on sanitation and a …
Nearly 300 eunuch have been carrying out a campaign against open defecation under the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan in Madhya Pradesh, with a state minister today saying that his government's idea to rope-in eunuchs to discourage the unhealthy practice in three districts has paid off. "The state government's idea to rope-in …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on solid and liquid waste management, 13/08/2015. Swachh Bharat Mission has been launched from 2.10.2014. Under Swachh Bharat Mission (Gramin) SBM-G, there is a provision of assistance of up to Rs. 7/12/15/20 lakh for Gram Panchayats with 150/300/500/more than 500 households. Under SBM-G, component-wise funds …
The cotton city has fared poorly in the cleanliness test done by the Union ministry of urban development. It has ranked 196th for managing waste among the 476 cities studied as part of the Swachch Bharat Mission, according to the report released last Saturday. Trichy was assessed the second cleanest …
Uttarakhand capital Dehradun is placed poorly at 26th position among the 28 capital cities surveyed for Swachh Bharat rankings. Karnataka capital Bengaluru tops the list, followed by Kerala capital Thiruvananthapuram while Sikkim capital Gangtok stands third. The survey conducted during 2014-15 was commissioned by the Union Ministry of Urban Development …
The Swachh Bharat Mission is being implemented in all the 4,041 statutory cities and towns in the country while the rankings released on Saturday pertained only to 476 cities The government on Sunday sought to de-link the city rankings for 2014-15, issued a day ago, from the Swachh Bharat Mission …
178 villages in the district have achieved 100% open defecation free status; Sindhudurg tops the list. Pune district has figured second on the list of districts in the state where a large number of villages have achieved cent per cent Open Defecation Free (ODF) status, according to a recent survey …
The holy city of Amritsar, Palwal and Bhiwani have emerged as the dirtiest cities in the northern region in an assessment on cleanliness carried out by Union Urban Development Ministry. Chandigarh, Shilma and Srinagar are also on the list of dirtiest capitals in the Swachh Bharat rankings. As per the …
Under Swachh Bharat Mission, 480 public toilets will be installed at 80 different locations in Delhi in the next three months. A decision to this effect was taken on Wednesday evening at a meeting by urban development secretary Madhusudan Prasad. Various models of public toilets, including the hugely popular Namma …
Itanagar: The Comptroller and Auditor General of India has slammed the Arunachal Pradesh government for poor implementation of central schemes under Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan (NBA). The CAG in its recent report which was tabled in the state assembly this month, highlighted various anomalies in implementation of the NBA during the …
In a letter dated July 17, 2015, the University Grants Commission (UGC) has asked universities across India to furnish information on the status of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan on their campuses. Panjab University (PU) will soon list the details of the progress taken place since the launch of its cleanliness …
JAIPUR: Prime minister Narendra Modi's ambitious programme Swachh Bharat Abhiyan is set to become a part of curriculum in the Rajasthan textbooks. Education minister Vasudev Devnani has asked the Rajasthan Pustakalaya Mandal, a body which revises the course content in state textbooks, to prepare course content on Swachh Bharat Abhiyan …
Nagpur: If the cash-strapped Nagpur Municipal Corporation wants the state's second capital to be among the 100 smart cities in the country, it will have to shell out Rs 50 crore per annum besides spending Rs 200 crore annually for next five years to carry out various development works. This …
