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 ‘Nirmal Bharat Yatra’ to promote the message of making the country open defecation-free and ensuring proper sanitation in rural areas will begin from October 3, Union Minister Jairam Ramesh said on Friday. Accompanied by actor Vidya Balan, the brand ambassador of the Ministry’s campaign for improving sanitation, Mr. Ramesh …
Statistics and reality are often vastly different in India and to address this issue Jairam Ramesh, Minister of Rural Development, announced the plan to set up an NGO Forum for independent evaluation. Ramesh said the Forum, which would comprise 30 Non-Governmental Organisations, would serve as an independent agency for evaluation …
More people practice open defecation in India than anywhere in the world – more than 600 million individuals. Although access to improved sanitation is steadily increasing in India since the year 2000 the pace of change is too slow. If the current trend continues, India will miss the Millennium Development …
As many as 103 gram panchayats will be presented with the Nirmal Gram Puraskar award by Governor H R Bhardwaj on Saturday. The gram panchayats have been selected for the award as they were “100 per cent defecation free”, said Sanjeev Kumar, Principal Secretary, Rural Development and Panchayat Raj. Addressing …
SHILLONG: Even though West Garo Hills district is the highest achiever in the State having done away with open defecation, it is still lagging behind in making schools ‘open defecation free’. According to available statistics, 45 per cent schools in the district still lack sanitation facilities although during the year …
Without water people cannot survive, but without good sanitation and hygiene practices the water available could become contaminated and lead to disease and death. Every year 1.5 million people, most of them children, die from complications associated with diarrhea that they picked up from dirty water.
2012 has brought welcome news of the progress made in bringing water and sanitation to the many people worldwide still without access to these essential services. The Joint Monitoring Programme between the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF reported that the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target for water was achieved …
Jairam Ramesh, Union Rural Development, Drinking Water and Sanitation Minister, on Thursday described the Railways as the world’s largest open toilet as his ministry signed an MoU with the Defence Research and Development Organisation to provide 1,000 bio digester toilets to 300 gram panchayats on a pilot basis in the …
Ranchi, July 24: The Saranda villagers’ wish of getting piped water and toilets at their houses may actually get fulfilled. Engineer-in-chief of the state drinking water and sanitation department (DWSD) Shardendu Narayan, who visited two panchayats — Lilor and Makranda — in Saranda forest area under West Singhbhum’s Manoharpur block …
More people practice open defecation in India than anywhere in the world – more than 600 million individuals. Although access to improved sanitation is steadily increasing in India since the year 2000 the pace of change is too slow. If the current trend continues, India will miss the Millennium Development …
Chandigarh: Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh today said Punjab could utilise only Rs 29 crore of the Rs 151 crore earmarked for the state to build rural toilets in the past 10 years. Clearly indicating that this was a case of mismanagement, Ramesh said instead of blaming someone else …
Bhopal : Maryada Abhiyan has been launched in Madhya Pradesh for freeing villages from the curse of open area defecation. Through the campaign, awareness is being created among villagers about environmental improvement, sanitation and safeguarding women’s modesty. For this purpose, a three-day workshop was organised by Panchayats and Rural Development …
This paper presents a brief account, based primarily on available secondary sources, of the current status of drinking water supply and sanitation in rural Madhya Pradesh. With a discussion on the lopsided hydrogeological attributes of water availability and shortages, a regional analysis of issues of access, quality of water and …
A new WSP working paper, What Does It Take to Scale Up Rural Sanitation? shares lessons and best practices that were identified to: generate demand for sanitation at the household and community level; increase the supply of affordable, aspirational sanitation products and services; and strengthen local and national governments to …
The main objectives of the NBA are as: Bring about an improvement in the general quality of life in the rural areas; Accelerate sanitation coverage in rural areas to achieve the vision of Nirmal Bharat by 2022 with all gram Panchayats in the country attaining Nirmal status; Motivate communities and …
Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh said in order to accelerate the Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan, the Centre had gone in for a total revamp of the programme. Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh has said that the country would take at least 10 years to achieve the Nirmal Bharath status, …
There is increasing medical evidence that suggests that high incidence of malnutrition is the direct result of poor sanitation and hygiene. This is the larger context against which the department of rural development, drinking water and sanitation has launched the Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan (Clean India Initiative). FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE It was …
Kerala will be the first major state to be declared open defecation-free, the Union Minister for Rural Development, Mr Jairam Ramesh, said here. This will be effective from November 1, the State Formation Day, Mr Ramesh told newspersons here after a review meeting with state government officials. NIRMAL STATUS Of …
Launching green toilets very close to country's missile test-firing facility, Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh on Sunday said there is no use blasting Agni missiles if the sanitation problem is not solved. Ramesh, who recently said he spends 18 hours on toilets daily, stressed that one of the biggest challenges …
Experts of UNICEF visited village Ratanpur in Sehore district on Friday to take stock development works being carried out in the rural areas under the Total Sanitation Campaign and efforts for creating awareness on sanitation among villagers. UNICEF sanitation expert Gregor and his team were accompanied by senior officers of …
