Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Nipun Bhushan Vs Government of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 24/02/2025. The applicant, Nipun Bhushan has raised a grievance against the alleged open defecation during Maha Kumbh in Prayagraj. The allegation of the applicant is that open defecation is due …
KATHMANDU, NOV 20 - As many as 7.95 million Nepalis still defecate in the open such as bushes and field, according to a study conducted by the Department of Water, Supply and Sanitation. According to its report, 30 percent of the total 24.5 million people lack access to toilet--a basic …
In India, perhaps Ground Zero in the sanitation and faecal contamination battle, the government has set Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birthday in 2019 as its target for achieving “total sanitation,” including access to toilets for all 1.2 billion residents. In a world in which 14 percent of the population in the …
Malnutrition in children can manifest in different ways; malnourished children can be underweight or obese, or their height can be stunted. Global health experts used to measure progress toward meeting childhood malnutrition goals on the basis of improvements in weight. But now stunting is the top priority. That’s because children …
They call them “flying toilets” – the bags of human poo that are thrown out of the windows of the thousands of small shacks that make up Nairobi’s slums. The largest of Nairobi’s informal settlements is Kibera, just three miles from the city centre. An estimated one million people live …
Ahead of the celebrations of Global Handwashing Day on Wednesday, the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) here has raised the concern that one out of five schools nationwide lack toilet facilities. Global Handwashing Day is a campaign to motivate and mobilise millions around the world to wash their hands with …
SINDHULIMADI: Locals of Sindhuli, where most of the VDCs have been declared open defecation free zone, are reeling under water crisis. Availability of water is the minimum criterion before a region is declared open defecation free zone, but prevailing water crunch has raised questions as to how fair it was …
The urban slum area located at the heart of National Capital had over 65% people defecating in the open. The approach was community-led where entire financing for toilets was done by the community itself. Across 7 slums where such intervention is in progress the communities have invested around Rs 20 …
The Union Minister of Rural Development and Drinking Water and Sanitation Shri Nitin Gadkari said that Swachh Bharat Mission will be converted into a mass movement to make India an open defecation free country in Five Years. Addressing a Joint Press conference with the Urban Development Minister Shri M. Venkaiah …
Despite economic growth, government latrine construction, and increasing recognition among policymakers that open defecation constitutes a health and human capital crisis, it remains stubbornly widespread in rural India. We present evidence from new survey data collected in Bihar, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh. Many survey respondents' behaviour reveals …
Poor sanitation is thought to be a major cause of enteric infections among young children. However, there are no previously published randomized trials to measure the health impacts of large-scale sanitation programs. India's Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) is one such program that seeks to end the practice of open defecation …
Urban Development Minister Narayan Khadka on Wednesday said that it is a matter of shame that thousands of families in Kathmandu district do not use toilets as yet. "Shame on all of us," said Khadka. "Even though many other districts have already been declared Open Defecation Free, Kathmandu is yet …
KATHMANDU: Kavresthali Village Development Committee of Kathmandu was declared open defecation free zone today. At a function organised to declare Kavresthali an ODF village, Constituent Assembly member Bhimsen Das Pradhan said, “ This initiation of making Kavresthali VDC ODF zone is a step towards the government’s plan of declaring the …
DIPAYAL: Despite the construction of accessible latrines at every household and the declaration of villages as open defecation free zone, dry taps are making a mockery of the declaration in Doti. Kotgaun region of Pachnali VDC was declared the first ODF area in the district, but the latrines have become …
KATHMANDU: There have been some praiseworthy achievements so far when it comes to making various districts an open defecation free zone. But as far as Kathmandu is concerned, scenario is rather bleak. Experts point at lack of local government as the major hurdle to declare Kathmandu an open defecation free …
Daunnedevi VDC in Nawalparasi district has been declared as 'open defecation free zone' amidst a programme. With this, number of open defecation free zone has reached 36 in the district. The VDC has 3,041 households and 19,946 population. A rally organised from different parts of the VDC was converged into …
In a bid to declare the district ‘Open-Defecation Free’ by next year, some government offices in Rautahat have started issuing written orders to their employees to immediately build toilets in their houses if they lack such basic amenities or lose all their facilities. The District Post Office, Rautahat has taken …
It's early morning and local commuters are queuing up for tickets at the Kirti Nagar railway station in the Indian capital, Delhi. Along the tracks, another crowd is gathering - each person on his own, separated by a modest distance. They are among the 48% of Indians who do not …
At least 54 million people in Asia can thank Bindeshwar Pathak when they defecate in private. If he has his way, about 600 million people in India who don’t have that luxury will join them a decade from now. Pathak, 71, invented a pour-flush, compost latrine in 1970 that is …
UNICEF estimates that almost 594 million —nearly 50 percent of India’s population — defecates in the open, with the situation particularly acute in impoverished rural areas such as the Badaun district of Uttar Pradesh. Carolyne Wheeler of the non-governmental organisation WaterAid, which has carried out research on the issue in …
The recent diarrhoea outbreak in Makawanpur’s Dhiyal VDC has to do with water sources contaminated with human waste, it has been learnt. The finding has also brought to fore the poor sanitation in the district that was declared an open defecation free zone a year ago. Regarding sanitation in the …
