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 …
To curb open defecation in the Nilgiris district, Rural Development Organisation (RDO), an NGO in the Nilgiris, on Wednesday launched cost effective, eco-friendly green toilets to mark World Environment Day. Launching the pre- fabricated toilets, N K Perumal, Honorary Chairman, RDO said, "The RDO has been actively working to eradicate …
Accham became the first district in the Far-Western Region to provide toilet access to all by declaring itself Open Defecation Free (ODF) on Wednesday. The district also became the fifth ODF district in the country after it constructed toilets in each household in all the 75 Village Development Committees (VDC). …
Children of around 20 per cent households in the city are still deprived of toilet facility for which they resort to open defecation. There are more than 400 slums in the city and a survey conducted under the City Sanitation Plan (CSP) revealed that around 30 per cent of households …
At a time when crores of rupees are spent on better sanitation by building toilets in schools and public places, here is a public facility that remains idle even after its inauguration two years ago. Constructed under S. Semmalai’s Member of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme in 2010-11 at a …
Department of Water Supply and Sewerage (DWSS) under the Ministry of Physical Planning, Works and Transport Management has been coordinating with districts to draft and implement the district sanitation strategic plan within this fiscal year. The strategy has been formed to meet the national as well as the Millennium Development …
The state rural development department has joined hands with Unicef Gujarat to develop statewide communication and advocacy strategy for promotion of open defecation-free communities and good hygiene practices in Gujarat. The department and Unicef had undertaken a detailed research last year on the current hygiene practices of communities specifically related …
The United Nation today lauded the government’s efforts for taking major initiative in installing ‘a toilet in every household and public school and institution’ in the country. In a ceremony attended by the Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai, top government officials and partners, UNICEF Nepal Representative Hanna Singer said, “The collective …
In some good news for the city, Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) may soon get approval to implement a city sanitation plan worth over Rs3,000 crore. The central government has started the process to appoint consultants to prepare plans for 18 cities, including Nagpur. Besides, the city has also been selected …
Goa aims to achieve 100% sanitation coverage and 100% open defecation free to become Nirmal Goa by the year 2014, PWD minister Ramkrishna Dhavalikar said on Monday. Briefing the media, Dhavalikar said that to achieve this the government had declared the year 2013 as 'Goa State Year of Sanitation' with …
In a two-day National Discussion seminar, which was organised under Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan by Union Drinking Water and Sanitation Ministry at CGO Complex, New Delhi on Saturday, Uttarakhand Peyjal Minister Mantri Prasad Naithani said that Uttarakhand Government would set its target to make the State free from open defecation practice …
The Centre is planning to formulate a law against the use of dry toilets and the erring persons could even be sent to jail, Union Minister Jairam Ramesh said on Friday. "The Government will soon formulate a law under which users of dry toilets will be punished and even sent …
Poor condition of public toilets in the Kathmandu Valley is repelling people from using them, an NGO survey said today. The municipalities are far behind when it comes to fulfilling the growing demand of public toilets and urinals, said NGO Forum for Urban Water and Sanitation, making public its survey …
From plastic portable loos to Sanitary Bonds, only an all-out war on open-sky toilets will remove the stink After Mahatma Gandhi, Jairam Ramesh is the only national leader to be genuinely concerned that 65 years after Independence, some 600 million Indians in the 21st century continue to use open skies …
As many as 53 district magistrates have reportedly submitted an affidavit to the state government stating that there are no dry toilets in their districts. The said documents were to be presented to the apex court in March 2012. However, reality of these ‘claims’ was exposed soon after the release …
Around 42 percent of the city’s total population living in 539 slums is without having access to a proper toilet and appropriate sanitation system. The worsening sanitation system has affected the health of these slum dwellers and the recent diarrhoeal outbreak has claimed lives of three children in the past …
Statistics and reality are often vastly different in India and to address this issue Jairam Ramesh, Minister of Rural Development, announced the plan to set up an NGO Forum for independent evaluation. Ramesh said the Forum, which would comprise 30 Non-Governmental Organisations, would serve as an independent agency for evaluation …
After being successfully declared the Open Defecation Free (ODF) zones, the ten village development committees across the country are on their way to become fully sanitised villages. The Department of Water Supply and Sewerage (DWSS) under the Ministry of Physical Planning and Works is scaling up its total sanitation campaign …
Union Minister for Rural Development, Drinking Water and Sanitation Jairam Rameshs’s ‘India Dream’ to free the country – the rural populace in particular - from open defecation, seems to have faced a setback with people unwilling to use DRDO made Bio-toilets raising a stink. After launching the bio-digesters in Odisha’s …
Without water people cannot survive, but without good sanitation and hygiene practices the water available could become contaminated and lead to disease and death. Every year 1.5 million people, most of them children, die from complications associated with diarrhea that they picked up from dirty water.
2012 has brought welcome news of the progress made in bringing water and sanitation to the many people worldwide still without access to these essential services. The Joint Monitoring Programme between the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF reported that the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target for water was achieved …
