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 …
There is increasing medical evidence that suggests that high incidence of malnutrition is the direct result of poor sanitation and hygiene. This is the larger context against which the department of rural development, drinking water and sanitation has launched the Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan (Clean India Initiative). FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE It was …
Kerala will be the first major state to be declared open defecation-free, the Union Minister for Rural Development, Mr Jairam Ramesh, said here. This will be effective from November 1, the State Formation Day, Mr Ramesh told newspersons here after a review meeting with state government officials. NIRMAL STATUS Of …
If architecture is 'design for living', one of its greatest challenges is how to live with the masses of waste we excrete. Four pioneers in green sanitation design outline solutions to a dilemma too often shunted down the pan.
To intensify its drive for rural sanitation, the Government has revised the guidelines regarding Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan's convergence with the rural employment guarantee scheme. The aim is to make 2,40,000 gram panchayats free of open defecation in 10 years, the Rural Development Minister, Mr Jairam Ramesh, told reporters here on …
Having achieved full sanitation coverage, Himachal Pradesh is on the verge of acquiring the status of a “Nirmal Pradesh”- the second state after Sikkim to get the distinction. However, the country will miss its 2017 target for achieving total sanitation coverage as the government today said that it would take …
About 23 percent rural people use unhygienic toilets while 10 percent villagers defecate in the open in Bangladesh, reveals a survey. The data achieved through the surveying of about 2.5 lakh people in some 150 villages of the seven divisions this year represent the overall sanitary condition of the country, …
The average human spends three years of his or her life in the toilet. The filthy streets of Europe are thought to be the reason for the sudden popularity, in the 17th century, of high heels. The poet W H Auden allowed his guests only one toilet paper a day. …
On the genesis of the scheme Our target is to ensure not a single milk producer in Anand and Khera districts of Gujarat defecates in the open. This is the region where the milk movement began in 1946, where we strive to improve the quality of the milk chain— from …
Determination of source of fecal pollution in rural water by the use of antibiotic resistance profiling is promising and the patterns of MAR in different animal populations vary according to the types and quantities of agent used. In the present study, a total of 260 water samples from Akola and …
In October last year, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Swachh Bharat campaign, there was one thing he did differently as a politician. He set a target to achieve 100 per cent toilets in every school across the country till Independence Day in 2015. That was more than 4 …
