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 …
BAJURA: Elderly citizens of Kotila VDC in Bajura are an elated lot because there are toilets in every house in the village now. Radhika BK, an elderly citizen of Kotila VDC used the toilet for the first time in her life after the toilet construction campaign was launched in the …
Around 1,000 houses of Marek Katahare have not been allowed access to the services provided by the VDC for failing to acquire the sanitation identity card. Ramkumari Katuwal was deprived of the services given by the VDC when she visited the office for land registration. She later knew that she …
Doti is yet to be declared open defecation free zone due to lack of cooperation among various organisations working in the field of drinking water and sanitation in the district. The organisations, including the government body, have been blaming each other for failure to proclaim the district an open defecation …
Despite Total Sanitation Campaign leading to increase in the number of households with toilet in the State, adoption of proper sanitation practices by the population still remains a far cry. While the use of toilets, even by adults, in rural areas is sub-optimal and largely limited to female members of …
The city continues to bear the stigma of poor sanitation practices. As the number of slums goes on increasing with rise in population and economic activities, no step is taken to inculcate healthy toilet habit among the people. While open defecation is still a common site in Silk City, lack …
Meghalaya, which is still facing the problem of open defecation, has set a target for nirmal (clean) state for the year 2014-15. Giving a presentation at a two-day consultative workshop towards achieving “Nirmal Meghalaya” organised here today, Meghalaya PHE additional chief engineer P.K. Pandey said the target set componentwise for …
The sanitation identity card has been made mandatory in government offices to leverage efforts to declare Ilam an Open Defecation Free district. The service providers would not get service without showing sanitation ID card according to the new rule. The District Administration Office has issued directive not to deliver any …
He’s the consummate villain: terrorizing villagers, pillaging towns and commanding a loyal gang of friends and flies. His name? Mr. Poo. He is a lowly pile of waste. But now is his turn in the limelight. He stars in “Poo Party,” a music video by Unicef India, part of a …
Goa still ranks an undesirable ninth among states and union territories in the country with 20% of the state's households not having toilet facilities within its premises, according to statistics of the Planning Commission. Another 18% in supposedly one of the most developed states in the country do not have …
Local teachers have collected donation for the construction of toilets in the homes of residents of Shivanath in Baitedi. Teachers of various schools in Shivanath have collected more than Rs. 28,000 to help construct toilets and make Shivanath VDC open-defecation-free region. Six teachers and two local social workers made the …
A sanitation commando team has been mobilized to help declare the district as 'open-defecation free' zone by mid-April 2014. Most of the remote villages are rapidly being declared as open defecation free but the district headquarters might be obstacle, as the headquarters based Chainpur VDC is yet to be declared …
Three projects have received funding support from the Sanitation Financing Partnership Trust Fund, created last year by the Asian Development Bank, in recognition that complex urban and coastal environments require new approaches to septage management. The Fund had been created to provide safe sanitation to families in Asia’s cities and …
Regretting that people still use open toilets all over the country, Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram today stressed the need to expedite and intensify implementation of the total sanitation programme to prevent such habits. Inaugurating a sanitation facility for 15 schools in this district, he said the UPA government's law …
Despite the district declaring an open defecation free zone, local people of Shikharpur VDC-3 and 7 defecate in the open due to lack of toilets at homes. Locals said they do not use concrete toilets because of water shortage. “Many local people do not have toilets at their houses, so …
Declared open-defecation free zones without necessary homework, a number of ODF villages in Doti are struggling to save face. While latrines in most villages are in bad shape due to lack of hygiene awareness among locals, lack of water has worsened the situation. Of the total 50 VDCs in the …
Panchthar was declared the first open-defecation free district of the eastern region today. Attending a function organised at district development committee’s open stage today, CA member Ganesh Kambang and Ishwori Prasad Paudel, Director General of Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation, jointly declared the district the first open-defecation free zone. …
The Rural Development Organisation (RDO) Trust has initiated a project to make the Nilgiris an Open Defecation Free district by 2018. The organisation has proposed to assist one lakh families in the district construct individual household toilets by getting bank loans, as most of them lacked the wherewithal to spend …
Actor Vidya Balan, ambassador of Centre’s flagship sanitation programme, would probably think twice if she were ever to associate with Odisha. For, the State Government has made a mess of the Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) having miserably failed to meet the target of toilet construction. An interim report of the …
In an attempt to provide access to hygienic sanitation facilities to thousands of commuters boarding long-distance buses, a ‘Namma Toilet’ has been launched at Peerkankaranai. A result of an approach to eradicate open defecation in urban Tamil Nadu, the universal design of Namma Toilet, launched in Tambaram and a few …
Goa might boast of positive socio-economic indicators like high per capita income and literacy rate, but inflow of migrant workers is rapidly altering the state's demographics. New census 2011 data released on Wednesday by the directorate of census operations, Goa, indicates that residents of as many as 53,003 households defecate …
