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 …
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 …
Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Kalikho Pul has urged the Centre to enhance funds from the existing Rs.12,000 to Rs.40,000 per unit of Individual House Hold Latrine (IHHL). While highlighting the border sensitiveness of the State and its difficult terrain, the Chief Minister made the plea during a meeting with Union …
Akure — Six landlords were on Tuesday sentenced to six months imprisonment with hard labour by a mobile court sitting in Ondo town, the headquarters of Ondo West Local Government Area of Ondo State for poor sanitation and threat to public health. The landlords who were accused of defecating indiscriminately …
New findings about toilet coverage in the country have rekindled old questions about the need to formulate a law that makes it compulsory for every household to have a toilet facility. Although the overall toilet coverage in the country has increased, recent national population and housing census figures released by …
The Left Front government in Tripura has announced to achieve open defecation free status for all the 1,118 villages of the sate under Swachh Bharat Mission in the coming financial year. Talking to the media Finance Minister Tapan Chakraborty said the state budget has made adequate allocation to ensure the …
With only 4.7% of gram panchayats of the state being open defecation free, the Karnataka government aims to build 10.3 lakh more toilets across the state in 2016-2017. This is to achieve the target of 40 lakh toilets by 2019 under the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. The state now has 21 …
Ado Ekiti — The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) and European Union (EU) at the weekend said that Ekiti State leads other states of the federation in open defecation. The international organizations said 1.8 million Ekiti residents out of a total population of 2.7 million are engaged in open defecation, …
Bhubaneswar: A village committee in Ganjam district has fined 60 people for defecating in the open. The village committee of Kandigaon under Kanheipur gram panchayat in Khallikote block formed a squad four months ago to keep strict vigil on the persons who defy committee order saying relieving in the open …
Bauchi — Over 8,000 people in Bauchi State practice open defecation due to inadequate latrines facility across the state. This was disclosed by the General Manager of the Bauchi State Rural Water and Sanitaion Agency, Eng Garba Babaji Magaji, when he received the new commissioner of Water Resources Alhaji Muhammad …
The 'Swachh Survekshan', is a survey commissioned by the Ministry of Urban Development – the first for Swachh Bharat Mission, launched on 2nd October 2014. The survey was conducted by Quality Council of India (QCI) to review the sanitation and hygiene conditions in 73 major cities (comprising 40% of India’s …
Attaining the status of a role model for its neighbours, Bangladesh has become an open defecation free country from 34 percent to 99 percent sanitation coverage in the last decade, said representatives of South Asian countries at a discussion yesterday. The discussion titled “Beyond Just Toilets – Fast Tracking an …
For the first time in an Indian Science Congress, a session on sanitation was introduced for a discussion on the country’s status in the area of hygiene which had received national attention with the launch of Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM). The ongoing 103rd ISC in Mysuru hosted the session with …
Minister for Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, Abdul Haq on Tuesday said that priority of the government is to make Jammu and Kashmir free from open defecation by 2019. The Minster said this while addressing the inaugural ceremony of two-day state level workshop on sanitation being organized by the Department …
Open defecation is practised by over 600 million people in India and there is a strong political drive to eliminate this through the provision of on-site sanitation in rural areas. However, there are concerns that the subsequent leaching of excreta from subsurface storage could be adversely impacting underlying groundwater resources …
The World Bank has approved a $1.5 billion loan programme for Modi government's Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (SBA) or Clean India Mission, a programme that aims to ensure improved access to sanitation facilities for millions of Indians. "The programme will help accelerate results in India's states by giving them performance-based incentives," …
