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 Centre has allocated about Rs32 crore to Delhi Government for construction of household and public toilets under the Swachchh Bharat Mission for the fiscal 2014-15. The target for Delhi is to construct 1,25,298 toilets in individual houses and 11,138 public facilities, besides putting in place solid waste management projects …
NASHIK: The water and sanitation department of the Nashik zilla parishad has received Rs 8 crore from the central government and the district planning and development councils for the construction of toilets. The funds would be used to clear the pending sum to the beneficiaries, who have already constructed toilets …
Prime Minister Narendra Modi may be strongly pitching for the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, but the sanitation conditions in rural Maharashtra present a horrific reality. About 56 lakh households in rural Maharashtra have no toilets, admitted the water supply and sanitation minister Babanrao Lonikar. “We are trying to build toilets in …
Constructing Toilets Tops List Responding to PM Narendra Modi's call, India Inc has jumped onto the Swachh Bharat bandwagon earmarking over Rs 1,000 crore for the project, analysts' estimates show. Major corporate houses such as L&T;, DLF, Vedanta, Bharti, TCS, Ambuja Cements, Toyota Kirloskar, Maruti, Tata Motors, Coca Cola, Dabur, …
Swachh Bharat may have started on a high note, but cleaning up the country is serious business. Apart from investment, it calls for behavioural changes, expertise and scientific knowledge. Hari Pulakkat examines key areas that require an overhaul If Finance Minister Arun Jaitley chooses to, he could remind citizens about …
In a bid to make quick progress on its objectives under the Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan, the civic body is set to experiment with solar- powered bio-toilets that make use of a special strain of bacteria to decompose human waste. These toilets would recycle waste into clean, odourless water back for …
Having received stick from the National Green Tribunal a few days ago over lack of proper facilities to treat and dispose of solid waste in municipal areas in Telangana, the state government proposes to equip urban local bodies with an efficient and sustainable waste management system for safe collection, treatment …
The senior officers like Chief Engineer and General Managers should attend the camps of Jal Sansthan at block levels to ensure that a financial clearance for the drinking water projects is expedited. The Education, Potable Water, Sanitation and Student Welfare Minister Mantri Prasad Naithani said this while addressing a review …
Despite implementation of Total Sanitation Programme to eradicate the practice of open defecation in Odisha for more than a decade, the coverage of individual household with toilets has been found to be abysmally low in the State’s rural areas. According to latest baseline survey furnished by Rural Development department in …
The National Green Tribunal Delhi came down heavily on all states in regards with solid waste management and said that if they fail to appear on February 5, it will impose fine of Rs 50,000 on each member secretary. The state of affairs with respect to solid waste management is …
Four months after the government kick-started the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan campaign, the Supreme Court on Tuesday declared that merely calling an empty shell of a room a toilet, without providing users any of the required facilities, does not make it a “toilet in reality.” A Bench of Justices Dipak Misra …
The Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation will launch a Nationwide Real Time Monitoring of use of toilets from January 2015. The Monitoring System will be unveiled to give a big push to Swachh Bharat Mission, which aims at attaining a 100% Open Defecation Free India by 2019. People across …
The main objectives of the SBM(G) are: Bring about an improvement in the general quality of life in the rural areas, by promoting cleanliness, hygiene and eliminating open defecation; Accelerate sanitation coverage in rural areas to achieve the vision of Swachh Bharat by 2nd October 2019; Motivate Communities and Panchayati …
With the effort put into the sanitation programme, the coverage in rural areas has gone up from one per cent in 1981 to 32.70 per cent as per Census 2011, and to 40.60 per cent. (Reuters) With the effort put into the sanitation programme, the coverage in rural areas has …
An international body, particularly the World Toilet Organisation, has promoted World Toilet Day for years. In 2013, the UN officially recognised November 19 as the World Toilet Day in a bid to make sanitation for all. The 2014 World Toilet Day campaign will draw attention to dignity and equality issues, …
The Swachh Bharat Abhiyan is billed as the most ambitious attack ever on the squalor that is India. In a 360-degree publicity campaign, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inspires and urges, scolds and sets targets. Ministers and officials have been made to brandish brooms, whether or not they want to. Starting …
A third of the 2·5 billion people worldwide without access to improved sanitation live in India, as do two-thirds of the 1·1 billion practising open defecation and a quarter of the 1·5 million who die annually from diarrhoeal diseases. The researchers aimed to assess the effectiveness of a rural sanitation …
The publication aims to assist elected representatives and government functionaries in developing and promoting sanitary habits in the villages. It guides them on how to keep their village clean, end open defecation, manage liquid and solid waste in an eco-friendly manner and pay attention to hygiene in schools, anganwadis and …
PANJIM: Two banks – the Indian Overseas Bank and Corporation Bank – have joined efforts of the ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’ cleanliness campaign being propagated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to provide separate toilet facilities for boys and girls in all government schools. Goa State Infrastructure Development Corporation has also taken …
A target has been set to establish solid and water waste management units in all 473 panchayats of the district by 2019, said Rural Development Minister Anil Sharma, while launching the Swachh Panchayat Week and Rashtriya Swachhta Abhiyan under the Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan here today. He said in the first …
