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 …
Caught in a debt trap after constructing toilets under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Swachh Bharat Mission (SMB), sarpanchs of eleven villages in Kanker district of tribal Bastar region have threatened to commit suicide if their payment is not released within a month. Toilets had been built by the sarpranchs through …
DEHRADUN: One of the main objectives of the Swachh Bharat Mission is to get all villages and towns to become open defecation free (ODF) which had to be achieved by 2019. Any region which has sufficient number of household, community and public toilets is said to be open defecation free. …
Dakshina Kannada district in-charge Minister B. Ramanath Rai on Monday said that Dakshina Kannada will be declared open defecation-free shortly as most of the households have come to have toilets. Speaking after unfurling the tricolour at the Nehru Maidan here, Mr. Rai said that as per a survey done under …
Over 57,400 schemes are going on in different states to provide drinking water to the rural population and over Rs 4,300 crore utilised for the purpose in 2015-16, the government said on Thursday. Drinking Water and Sanitation Minister Narendra Singh Tomar informed Lok Sabha that Rs 4,373 crore was allocated …
Residents of these households relieve themselves in open places, drains or railway tracks. Hyderabad: Around 70,000 households in Hyderabad, mostly in the suburbs, do not have individual toilets. Officials said that as per the Samagra Kutumba Survey, residents of these households relieve themselves in open places, drains or railway tracks. …
Eliminating open defecation is an important policy priority in India. In this article, Arya, George and Singh from the Centre for Policy Research, illustrate how using readily available geospatial data to estimate exposure to open defecation can help focus public investment and efforts in areas where it is needed the …
Official records state that 28.7 of the population of people in Nigeria still practice open defecation. Only 34 percent of people have access to improved sanitation facilities, 30 per cent have access to shared facilities, and 46.1 per cent to non-improved. Minister of Water Resources, Engr. Suleiman Hussaini Adamu gave …
ISLAMABAD: Asian Parliamentary Assembly (APA) adopted various resolutions with regard to the challenging issues of environment, poverty eradication, women empowerment and education in Asian countries, here, on Wednesday These resolutions were adopted during the concluding session of the two-day meeting of the Standing Committee of APA on Economic and Sustainable …
The United Nations Children’s Education Fund (UNICEF) on Wednesday said 276 communities across the country have been certified open defecation-free. UNICEF Chief of Field Office, Kaduna, Utpal Moitra made this known in Minna at a mid-year review of 2016 UNICEF State plan for Niger. Moitra said that about 97, 000 …
RAIPUR: As district administrations across Chhattisgarh are aiming to go Open Defecation Free by August 15 and January 26, nearly 90 tribal school girls residing at a residential school in Maoist-hotbed Bastar division, walk with a mug 200 metres away from the hostel to relieve themselves in forest. Besides danger …
India’s ambitious sanitation drive has created a health hazard, with many toilets built cheek by jowl with family water supplies June in Odisha state’s Puri district, and the mercury is hitting 39C. The monsoon is still days away but, when it comes, the Mahanadi river could flood low-lying villages, as …
GURGAON: The Haryana government will no more give subsidy for constructing toilets but would provide incentives to village panchayats and municipal corporations for maintaining cleanliness, officials said on Wednesday. Additional Chief Secretary of Rural Development Department Navraj Sandhu said efforts will be made to change the mindset of the people …
THE AGRICULTURE ministry has constructed 2 645 ventilated double pit toilets at a cost of N$108 million in various regions of the country since 2014. The agriculture ministry's spokesperson Margaret Kalo confirmed that the improved toilets are part of the ministry's water supply and sanitation national strategy project, adopted in …
Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Sunday said the State would be open-defecation free by December next year and every household would be provided LPG connection. “Haryana would be made open-defecation free by December, 2017, under the ‘Swachh Bharat’ campaign and every household would have a toilet,” he said. …
Bhubaneswar: As many as 1,842 villages in the state have been declared open defecation-free so far. This apart, the Odisha goverment has also announced 113 gram panchayats and a block as being free of open defecation. Kashinagar block in Gajapati also earned the open defecation-free (ODF) tag recently. A senior …
Collector to appoint a resource person each for every 2 mandals. Nellore: As many as 100 villages in SPSR Nellore district were declared as open defecation free (ODF) areas as part of Swachh Bharat programme. Credit goes to district collector M Janaki and the workforce of AP Rural Water Supply …
Dhanbad: At least 58 villages of 19 panchayats under six Maoist-hit blocks of Girdih district were declared 'open defecation-free (ODF)' by the district administration on Sunday. Also, the administration identified around 250 villagers as 'natural leaders of Swachhta (cleanliness)'. These villages have played a vital role in spreading awareness about …
Almost half of Kenyans living in rural areas do not have access to basic sanitation, a new report shows. A survey report launched on Wednesday in Nairobi by the Ministry of Health's Environmental Health Department with the support of the World Bank Group's Water and Sanitation Programme (WSP) says access …
Kolhapur: District guardian minister Chandrakant Patil on Sunday said the state government is keen on effective implementation of Jalyukt Shivar Abhiyan in 20 villages in the district this year. The water conservation scheme is being implemented in 69 villages since 2015. Speaking on the occasion of Maharashtra Day on Sunday, …
Eighteen states, including Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Telengana and West Bengal, have set the ambitious target of making 400 cities and towns free of open defecation (ODF) by December. Only the New Delhi Municipal Council area in the national capital aims to achieve this target in …
