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. …
As many as 13 panchayat presidents from Vellore district received the ‘Nirmal Gram Puraskar’ award. The award is given by President of India to the presidents of panchayats that did well in maintaining hygiene in their respective villages by operating women sanitary complexes well, preventing open area defecation, maintaining school …
The state government would organise street plays and musical skits to spread awareness against open defecation and to encourage ruralfolk to construct toilets in their homes. On Thursday, panchayati raj minister Balram Yadav said the department plans to step up efforts to apprise rural masses about the sanitation programme. The …
Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Minister H K Patil on Friday said six lakh community toilets would be constructed in rural areas during the current financial year. Patil told mediapersons here that officials have been instructed to take steps to have two toilets with commode in each village, for the …
The Centre has approved the state government’s Rs 10,392-crore plan for implementation of sanitation and waste management projects in rural areas. The plan will be implemented in 27,902 villages across 33 districts over the next 10 years till 2022. State minister for water supply and sanitation Dilip Sopal, on Wednesday, …
Nearly 73 per cent households in rural India practice open defecation despite sanitation drives launched by the government, according to an independent evaluation by the Planning Commission. The study considers a household under the open defecation category if at least one member defecates in the open. The ‘Evaluation Study on …
Most people living in rural Indian villages defecate openly outside, without using a toilet or latrine. In 2004, as a supplement to its ongoing Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC), the government of Maharashtra conducted a randomized, controlled experiment to study the effect of a sanitation intervention. In Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra, …
Toilets are yet to be considered an integral part of houses in rural areas of Namakkal Superstitious beliefs, religious sentiments and vasthu shastra are making construction of toilets in rural areas of Namakkal district in Tamil Nadu an uphill task. P. Aruna (32) and her husband Periyasamy (45), a truck …
This is the latest publication by the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation. The report details global progress towards the MDG target for drinking water and sanitation, and what these trends suggest for the remainder of the Water for Life Decade 2005-2015. This report also provides the …
As part of a programme being implemented by the Aruvankadu-based non governmental organisation, the Rural Development Organisation (RDO), to enhance awareness about the benefits of individual toilets among people in the rural parts of The Nilgiris district, a book titled ‘A Revolution in Sanitation in The Nilgiris’ was released here …
Almost nine million children under 5 years of age die every year. Diarrhea is considered to be the second leading cause of under-five mortality in developing countries. About one out of five deaths is caused by diarrhea. In this paper, we use the newly available data set District Level Household …
It may be hard to believe, but it is true. Anyone travelling the length of the rural belt of Delhi that stretches from Badarpur border in South-East Delhi all the way to Narela in the northern periphery of the city, will not find a public toilet along the way. The …
A new WSP report, Linking Service Delivery Processes and Outcomes in Rural Sanitation: Findings from 56 Districts in India, finds that when higher quality of service delivery processes are adopted at the district level, it is more likely that households to sustain behaviors linked to toilet usage and safe disposal …
WaterAid and Plan International Pakistan along with other civil society organisations across Pakistan joined hands to launch a yearlong campaign calling for government to keep its promises to improve access to sanitation facilities. The campaign “Keep Your Promises on Sanitation” aims to establish a broad-based civil society and citizens’ alliance …
The state rural development department has joined hands with Unicef Gujarat to develop statewide communication and advocacy strategy for promotion of open defecation-free communities and good hygiene practices in Gujarat. The department and Unicef had undertaken a detailed research last year on the current hygiene practices of communities specifically related …
The United Nation today lauded the government’s efforts for taking major initiative in installing ‘a toilet in every household and public school and institution’ in the country. In a ceremony attended by the Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai, top government officials and partners, UNICEF Nepal Representative Hanna Singer said, “The collective …
The Twelfth Plan proposes a fundamental change in the principles, approach and strategies of water management in India. This paradigm shift was the outcome of a new and inclusive process of plan formulation, which saw the coming together of practitioners and professionals from government, academia, industry and civil society to …
Goa aims to achieve 100% sanitation coverage and 100% open defecation free to become Nirmal Goa by the year 2014, PWD minister Ramkrishna Dhavalikar said on Monday. Briefing the media, Dhavalikar said that to achieve this the government had declared the year 2013 as 'Goa State Year of Sanitation' with …
Nirmal Gram Puraskar till 2011 was given by Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation, Government of India at all levels of PRIs that is Gram Panchayat, Block Panchayat and district Panchayat. It has now been decided that with the transition to NBA, selection of Gram Panchayats to award Nirmal Gram …
With 73 per cent of the rural households resorting to open defecation as per the Census 2011, the government has sanctioned Rs. 35 crore for the construction of integrated sanitation complexes for men in 770 village panchayats. According to a release, each village panchayat will have two complexes costing Rs. …
From plastic portable loos to Sanitary Bonds, only an all-out war on open-sky toilets will remove the stink After Mahatma Gandhi, Jairam Ramesh is the only national leader to be genuinely concerned that 65 years after Independence, some 600 million Indians in the 21st century continue to use open skies …
