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 …
Twenty three communities across the Bongo District have been declared Open-Defecation Free (ODF) within the year, Mr Peter Ayinbisa Ayamga, District Chief Executive (DCE) for Bongo in the Upper East Region, has disclosed. The DCE, who was speaking at the last mandatory General Assembly meeting for year 2017, added that …
Lilongwe — Chief Director middle left presenting a certificate to Senior Chief Kalumbu on the middle Right - Pic By Chimwemwe Njoloma Traditional Authority (T/A) Kalumbu area in Lilongwe on Friday was declared Open Defecation Free (ODF) following a successful Sanitation and Hygiene Initiative that the area undertook for the …
Moroto — In a bid to eliminate the culture of open defecation in Karamoja Sub-region, Rupa Sub-county leaders in Moroto District have barred 33,000 residents from accessing government programmes until they embrace the use of pit-latrines. The Karimojong practice open defecation because of their cultural beliefs, making the sub-region one …
The United Nations Children Funds (UNICEF) says Nigeria is ranked third among the countries of the world where people still practise open defaecation. Mr Zaid Jurji, the UNICEF Chief of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) in Nigeria, made this known on Wednesday in Katsina when he paid courtesy visit to …
Ongwediva — In the quest to increase sanitation coverage and accessibility to proper toilets in the country, five more villages are awaiting to be verified and certified as Open Defecation Free (ODF). The five villages will follow Ondingwanyama in Ohangwena Region, which was declared first ODF village in the country …
Ghana has been named among the top 10 countries worldwide with the highest percentage of 85.7 of its population without decent toilets. This equals about 23 million people who suffer the fear and indignity of relieving themselves in the open or in unsafe or unhygienic toilets. This is contained in …
The discourses on rural and urban spaces in India in the context of physical infrastructure have divulged their inherent characteristic differences. However, given the trends of urbanisation in India there has been a paradigm shift in rural – urban continuum manifested in, amongst many things, planning, production and provision of …
Open defecation costs Ghana over 79 million dollars a year, a 2012 World Bank report says. It is also estimated, that one in five Ghanaians defecate openly, whilst only one in seven house-holds in the country have toilet facilities. Madam Rushnan Murtaza, a representative of UNICEF, said this at the …
Pupils carry a placard with an informative message as they matched to the music of a brass band in commemoration of the Global Hand Washing Day at Chinyi Primary School in Moyo district The deputy commandant of Palorinya settlement in northern Uganda, Bashir Mawa, has called on people to avoid …
The Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation has updated the existing guidelines for Swachh Bharat Mission (Gramin). The revised guidelines aims to help the States/UTs and other stakeholders to find all the important decisions, advisories of the Ministry at one place and provide an improved understanding of the programme.
In rural areas, roughly 72 percent and 12 percent of people in urban areas still relieve themselves in the open. According to a 2015 Formative Research Report on Open Defecation Status in Namibia done by the agriculture ministry, only a third of Namibia's population of 2,2 million has access to …
HYDERABAD: The GHMC may have declared all of its 150 wards to be open defecation free(ODF) on Independence Day this year, there are still people in certain pockets and several slums in the city who have no choice but to use open lands to relieve themselves. Indira Nagar in Balanagar, …
The World Bank has published a report titled, ‘The Rising Tide: A New Look at Water and Gender,’ which characterizes water as “an asset, a service and a space” and illustrates how water can “reflect and even reinforce” gender inequality. The report, launched during World Water Week in Stockholm, Sweden, …
BIJNOR: The Bijnor administration has declared the district open defecation free, with chief development officer Indramani Tripathi on Monday saying that the district panchayati raj officer has received a declaration from all village pradhans in this regard. "We will soon initiate the verification process in villages after which ODF certificates …
The SDMC has seized 571.20 kilograms of plastic material which were banned, as per the NGT’s direction. New Delhi: Acting tough against the ‘Open Defecation’ order, the South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) has prosecuted 545 people in its jurisdiction. The corporation has also launched a special drive 'Seeti Bajao' to …
Jos — The Pilot Science Primary School, Kwall is said to be one of the best and oldest government-owned primary schools in the entire Irigwe chiefdom of Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau State. It was established in 1946. However, 71 years after it was established without a toilet facility, …
Ondingwanyama-While Namibia’s sanitation status is a thorn in the flesh, with only half the population having access to proper sanitation, government is striving towards declaring at least 180 villages in Ohangwena, Kavango West and East and Zambezi free from open defecation by December. The programme will be rolled out by …
Ghana loses about 290 million U.S. dollars and 79 million U.S. dollars annually to poor sanitation and open defecation respectively, state-owned Ghana News Agency (GNA) reported here Tuesday. David Duncan, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Chief of Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), said Ghana also ranked lowest in sanitation levels …
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Agency (RUWASSA) have certified 234 communities in Boki area of Cross River Open Defecation Free (ODF). UNICEF representative, Mr. Sam Itodo spoke to the communities on the importance of sustaining the achievement and not to go to sleep. …
Rabat – A report by WHO and UNICEF shows that 2.1 billion people lack safe drinking water at home and 4.5 billion lack safely managed sanitation. While billions of people have gained access to drinking water and sanitation services in the last twenty years, WHO’s report shows that safe water …
