Counter affidavit on behalf of Chief Municipal Engineer, Patna Nagar Nigam in the matter of Saurav Narayan Vs Bihar Pollution Control Board & Others dated May 20, 2025. The report said that the corporation has been diligently performing its statutory duties within the limitations of the available resources and infrastructure. …
The Gujarat government is planning to make the state “open defecation-free” in next two years. Gujarat chief minister Anandi Patel said on Wednesday that her government is on an over-drive to build toilets across Gujarat and could even punish those who defecate in open. “We are building toilets across Gujarat …
While the urban development ministry will allocate Rs 62,000 crores for cleaning towns across the country, the ministry of drinking water and sanitation will spend Rs 1,34,000 crores for the programme to be launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on October 2. Besides roping in all levels of bureaucracy from …
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday directed the civic agencies to come up with plan for better sanitation facilities, after observing that there was a “serious dearth” of toilets in the capital and most people were “still using walls and railway tracks”. The court of Justices B D Ahmed and …
Move expected to encourage best performers and inspire others; aim to double foreign tourist arrivals in India Close on the heels of Prime Minister Narendra Modi announcing the ambitious ‘Clean India’ mission, the Union Tourism Ministry on Friday said it was working on a “cleanliness index’’ for cities in the …
The Union Minister of Rural Development and Drinking Water and Sanitation Shri Nitin Gadkari said that Swachh Bharat Mission will be converted into a mass movement to make India an open defecation free country in Five Years. Addressing a Joint Press conference with the Urban Development Minister Shri M. Venkaiah …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Western Zone Bench, Pune) in the matter of Narayan Namdeo Yadav & Others Vs The Municipal Corporation & Ors. dated 19/09/2014 regarding municipal solid waste management in the city of Nashik. Previous Orders
Major initiatives include public awareness campaign With the Union Urban Development Ministry laying a special thrust on beautification of the Capital, the Delhi Government and the municipal agencies are planning a host of initiatives and an awareness campaign during a Special Sanitation Week to be observed from September 25. Plans …
Councillors in the South Delhi Municipal Corporation will be getting an additional Rs.2-5 lakh each to improve cleanliness in their wards, Leader of the House Subhash Arya said on Monday. “The councillors can coordinate with the Zonal Deputy Commissioner and the executive engineer of maintenance to get cleanliness in their …
Order of the Madras High Court in the matter of A. Narayanan Vs Chief Secretary, Government of Tamil Nadu & Others dated 04/09/2014 regarding rehabilitation of slum dwellers.
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Dr. Irfan Ahmad & Ors. Vs. Mr. Nawang Rigzin Jora & Ors. dated 29/08/2014 regarding landfill dumping site at Achan, Srinagar. The Tribunal has directed the Commissioner of Municipal Corporation to discuss with the State Government …
The International Red Cross (IRC) has released a book, titled “Priceless! Uncovering the Real Costs of Water and Sanitation,” as part of the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Cost (WASHCost) initiative. The book presents lessons learned from the WASHCost project and reflects on experiences in the four project countries: Burkina Faso; …
According to this 2014 revision of the World Urbanization Prospects produced by the UN Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs Africa and Asia are urbanizing faster than other regions and the largest urban growth will take place in India, China and Nigeria. These three countries will …
For the first time in human history the urban population outnumbers the rural one. This is both due to villages growing to become towns and cities, and migration of the rural population to urban cities. According to the UN’s calculations, in 2003 870 million people lived in slums, and this …
The provision of sanitation facilities – a basic necessity for human health, well-being, dignity and development – remains a mammoth challenge for developing countries, in which the vast majority of the 2.5 billion people without improved sanitation facilities reside. Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is one of the regions where decent, dignified …
The Chennai Corporation is aiming for a clean sweep to tackle problems of female hygiene and access to sanitation -special `She Toilets' have been planned for women in 348 locations across the city and will be opened by the end of the year. They will also be the first etoilets …
The stink emanating from defunct public toilets in Hadwara town of Kupwara district is causing immense inconvenience to the residents. People alleged that the Municipal Committee, Handawara, has failed to make toilets properly functional and most of them were lacking water facility. “The Handwara Municipal Committee last year claimed to …
Following the Supreme Court judgment on manual scavenging in December last year as well as the enactment of the new Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and Their Rehabilitation Act, 2013, Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) will appoint a special body to monitor sanitary activities in the city. This come after …
The daily hassle of checking whether garbage from your locality has been lifted or not may soon end with Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC) distributing GPS (global positioning system)-enabled handsets to its sanitary inspectors tracking their daily movement across localities. A GPS tracking unit is a device that helps determine precise …
Royal HaskoningDHV to prepare sanitation plan for the capital city, which would be later implemented in other parts of the State With Goa striving to meet the target of providing 100 per cent sanitation to the entire state by 2014 end, the Union Urban Development Ministry has come to the …
