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 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 …
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, …
