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 …
The Asian Development Bank and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have created a new ‘Sanitation Financing Trust Fund’ to expand and speed up access to safe sanitation in countries in Asia and Pacific region. The partnership trust fund announced during the ongoing World Water Week will entail an investment …
Deputy secretary general uses World Water Week address to push social and economic case for renewed efforts on sanitation The UN has called on countries to give greater urgency to sanitation, particularly efforts to end open defecation. "We must break taboos. As was the case for the word 'toilets' a …
Poor sanitation remains a major public health concern linked to several important health outcomes; emerging evidence indicates a link to childhood stunting. In India over half of the population defecates in the open; the prevalence of stunting remains very high. Recently published data on levels of stunting in 112 districts …
The government is preparing to declare Bhaktapur Open Defecation Free (ODF) district during the upcoming South Asian Conference on Sanitation (Sacosan) to be held in Nepal for the first time. The 5th SACOSAN Conference, scheduled to be held in the Capital will be inaugurated with the announcement of Bhaktapur as …
Rural Development Ministry would join hands with a leading defence research organisation to push eco-friendly bio-toilets in villages in four states where the menace of open defecation remained unaddressed. Impressed by the achievement of the Defence Research and Development Establishment (DRDE) in developing low cost bio-toilets, Rural Development Minister Jairam …
Leaders of various political parties today pledged to promote sanitation activities. Speaking at an interaction that Water Aid Nepal and the Federation of Drinking Water and Users Nepal had organised, around two dozen leaders from mainstream political parties pledged to incorporate drinking water and sanitation issues into their parties’ manifestos …
Kapan VDC in Kathmandu has been declared open defecation free VDC on Sunday with the slogan ‘Clean and Green Kapan: Our identity.' It was declared amid much fanfare with songs and dances in the presence of civil society, political parties and organisations, state-owned news agency RSS reported Kathmandu LDO Prem …
The state government would organise street plays and musical skits to spread awareness against open defecation and to encourage ruralfolk to construct toilets in their homes. On Thursday, panchayati raj minister Balram Yadav said the department plans to step up efforts to apprise rural masses about the sanitation programme. The …
Local authorities on Friday declared Nagarkot VDC in Bhaktapur district, which is located around 32 kilometers north-east from the Kathmandu valley, totally free from open defecation. Nagarkot is the sixth Open Defecation Free (ODF) village in the district. According to Rajendra Kumar KC, local development officer in Bhaktapur, efforts are …
Linking the open defecation problem with malnutrition, Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh today said the Indian political class has been neglecting sanitation and made a strong pitch for bringing it on the national agenda. "As a country, we have stressed nutrition specific interventions, we have neglected nutrition sensitive interventions. In …
Two months ago, there was not much difference in the lifestyle of the people of two Chandil block villages. But now, 37-year-old BhadoMurmu of Katiya village is envious of MangaliSoren of KanglaTand village. This is because of the initiative taken by the KanglaTand villagers to build toilets inside their houses. …
Lending support to the Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan (NBA), a community-led total sanitation programme initiated by the Government of India, Geneva-based Global Sanitation Fund (GSF), has decided to extend financial help to three states in the country. Jharkhand is one among the three which includes Assam and Bihar. Vice president GSF, …
Water taken out from 65 percent of tube wells in the district is not potable, a study carried out by the Drinking Water and Sanitation Sub-Division Office (DWSSDO), Rupandehi, has revealed. Chief of the DWSSDO Nandalal Banjade said harmful bacteria and traces of faeces and other waste were found in …
The Open Defecation Free Campaign, launched with the objective of declaring the district as open defecation free district by 2014, has now been expedited. In this connection, out of 39 VDCs in the district, 20 VDCs have already been declared as open defecation free VDCs. According to Tilak Neupane, Engineer …
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 …
