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 …
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday said his government was committed to achieving its target of providing safe drinking water to all and to construct toilets in all households in the state. "The Grand Alliance government is working to get rid of open defecation in Bihar," he said after …
The Ashaiman Municipal Assembly (ASHMA) says it intends to soon drag property owners who have failed to provide toilet facilities in their homes to the law courts. The Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) of the Assembly, Mr. Ibrahim Baidoo, sounded the warning at a function to remind homeowners in the municipality …
The Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development (MLGRD) says it is helping households to get more toilet facilities towards eradicating open defecation, a major health menace across the country. Deputy sector Minister, Edwin Nii Lantey Vanderpuije said the Ministry was embarking on two schemes, which have begun in some …
World Toilet Day was on Thursday, celebrated for the first time in 2013 since the United Nations General Assembly adopted Singapore’s decision to dedicate 19 November for that day. More than 50% of Egyptians are deprived of sewage services, while 1 million people are deprived of clean water sources, according …
Safely obtained biogas from human waste could generate electricity to power all of the households in in Indonesia, Brazil, and Ethiopia combined, if researchers can harness the correct innovative technologies. That's according to a new report from UN University's Canadian-based Institute for Water, Environment and Health, which estimates that biogas …
Private companies in Pimpri Chinchwad have helped construct 93 individual toilets in Rajiv Gandhinagar slums in Pimpale Saudagar. Mangesh Kadam, senior social worker with Shelter Associates, said, "In four months, we built 93 toilets here and handed them over on Wednesday to slum dwellers. We are working in Sangli, Kolhapur …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Southern Zone, Chennai) in the matter of M. Kumaravel Vs The Collector, Kancheepuram District dated 10/10/2015 regarding environmental degradation caused due to open defecation by the fishermen community at Muttukadu Tsunami relief tenements located in S.F.No.97/3, Muttukadu Village, Kancheepuram District and to construct an …
The State Government has set a target to convert at least one block in each district and 1,040 gram panchayats as open defecation-free under Swachh Bharat Mission during the current fiscal. The State is lagging far behind in its target of toilet construction in individual households. As against a target …
A total of 22 village panchayats have been declared ‘open defecation-free’ in Erode district during the gram sabha meeting last week. Common toilets To curb the practice of open defecation, every household was provided with a lavatory. In the absence of space in households, common toilets were constructed, according to …
Of the total 322 village panchayats in the district, all the houses in 61 villages have individual household latrines. The villages have been declared as open defecation-free by the village panchayats. Officials of the District Rural Development Authority (DRDA)said that the toilets in select villages in Panchayat Unions of Elachipalayam, …
The Ministry of Health and Social Welfare in collaboration with the Ministry of Environment, Climate Change, Water, Forestry and Wildlife, UNICEF and Department of Community Development, recently held a day-long sensitisation programme on the elimination of open defecation for Central River Region Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) members in Janjangbureh. The …
The practice of open defecation in Ghana is still very alarming, with current data suggesting that almost a quarter of the Ghanaian population do not use any latrine facility. Statistics also indicates that access to improved sanitation in Ghana is estimated at 15 per cent against the Millennium Development Goals …
The Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Minster of Environment and UNICEF country representative have called for behavioural change in the attainment and sustainability in ending open defecation in The Gambia by 2017. They were speaking to journalists at a press briefing held at Dalagass Community in CRR after the …
LUAPULA Province Minister Brigadier General Benson Kapaya has called on chiefdoms to work towards ending open defecation to improve public health and curb water-borne diseases. Gen Kapaya said poor access to sanitation is one of the major contributors to ill-health, mainly manifested in water-borne related diseases such as cholera. Gen …
President Yahya Jammeh has made a declaration that The Gambia would be "open defecation-free" by 2017. The declaration was announced by the Minister of Health and Social Welfare, who represented the Gambian leader at the launching ceremony on "Ending Open Defecation" in The Gambia, held at the Dalagas Community in …
As part of eliminating open defecation, 60 village panchayats in the district will have Individual Household Latrine (IHHL) and these villages will also be declared as ‘Open Defecation-Free Villages’ from October 2. Under the Swatch Bharat Mission (Rural) that aims at achieving universal sanitation, the district administration has proposed to …
It has emerged that one of the major factors preventing the government from rolling out its plans to ensure proper sanitation in the country is the non-adherence of many of its partners to the subscribed guidelines developed by the government. In its desire to support the development of a cost-effective …
178 villages in the district have achieved 100% open defecation free status; Sindhudurg tops the list. Pune district has figured second on the list of districts in the state where a large number of villages have achieved cent per cent Open Defecation Free (ODF) status, according to a recent survey …
The Swachh Bharat rankings released by the Union urban development ministry on Saturday has placed Kolhapur at 158th position among 479 class I cities in the country. Interestingly, Kolhapur is ahead of six cities recommended by the state government for the Centre's ambitious smart cities project. In 2009, the city …
Richest corporation of the country still has pockets where open defecation is the only choice. Taxpayers in Mumbai have spent over Rs 13,000 crore towards cleanliness over the past decade. But the city has a lowly 140th rank to show for this massive spending. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) had …
