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. …
Many factors associated with modern society have combined to produce a burgeoning in water demand. This demand can be realized only through efficient management of water sources and supply systems. To achieve sustainable water supply the beneficiary communities should be made to maintain the facilities created in the rural areas. …
This paper presents primary data collected from two districts of Surat and Kutch in Gujarat and examines how and to what extent the decentralised system of governance has contributed to delivery of health services in rural areas of Gujarat. It finds several lacunae and shortcomings in the delivery by panchayati …
JAIPUR: In Rajasthan only 40% of rural household have toilets and less than 13% of the population in the state have access to it. Acting on this alarming situation, the state government has drafted a policy on rural sanitation and hygiene, a strategy for achieving the vision of " Nirmal …
Results-Based Financing (RBF) refers to a broad family of financial instruments. With RBF, public funding is provided only if pre-specified results have been achieved. Its use in the sanitation sector has so far been limited, as opposed to in other sectors such as health or education. This working paper aims …
Jairam Ramesh on Monday broke off from his CAG-bashing ministerial colleagues and asked the agency to audit the over . 1,00,000-crore annual allocation by his department to rural development schemes. In a letter to the CAG, Jairam Ramesh has sought the appointment of special accountant generals to oversee audit of …
Total sanitation is a basic building block in the process of fighting health hazards and poverty. It refers to hygienic practices of collection, removal, disposal or recycling of human excreta, garbage and waste water for protecting health and well being of the people and the environment .It also affects livelihood …
The Master Plan largely focuses to Open Defecation Free (ODF) with universal access to toilet in both the urban and rural context through the total sanitation approach. It has recognized the improved toilet facilities as defined by the Joint Program Monitoring (JMP) Report of UNICEF and WHO. Apart from ODF …
The Government of India (GoI) initiated its national flag ship programme on sanitation, the Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) in 1999. The TSC is a restructured version of the Central Rural Sanitation Programme (CRSP). In Rajasthan, the TSC was initially launched in 4 districts in 1999 and scaled up in all …
Installation of hand pumps in villages will no longer be encouraged by the Centre as borewell water contains substances like arsenic which are a health hazard. Stating that central government will now fund only pipe water supply schemes, rural development minister Mr Jairam Ramesh today batted for a “paradigm shift” …
Department of Public Health and Engineering (DPHE) has taken up massive plan to bring all the families of the district under 100 percent sanitation coverage by 2013. The aim of the cent percent sanitation coverage is to ensure hygienic atmosphere and to protect the children and the mass communities from …
Govt, Infosys enter into an agreement to build 10,000 toilets designed by software engineer There’s relief in the pipeline for the residents of Gulbarga’s villages. For, their embarrassment of answering the call of nature in the open may soon be flushed down the eco-sanitation dry compost toilets, designed by native …
NEW DELHI, Sep 18 (IANS): Assam has been allocated $2.5 million by a UN body to help improve hygiene in rural areas, stressing on the economic gains that would follow "when people spend less money on preventable sanitation-related diseases". India is among 10 countries - seven African and three Asian …
The workshop for "Early Recovery Programme for Rural Sanitation in flood-affected districts of Pakistan, Phase III," was held here on Thursday to increase mutual understanding between the partners and government officials to improve sanitation coverage in 33 districts, reaching out to more than seven million people. Plan International, with the …
The Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation administers the National Rural Drinking Water programme (NRDWP) instituted from 1/4/2009, through which support is extended to the states for implementing rural domestic water supply schemes. Powers to sanction individual projects is given to the states through their State Level Scheme Sanctioning Committees. …
CHENNAI: Expediting her efforts to see a litter-free State capital very soon, Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Monday set a three-month deadline for cleaning up the entire Chennai and its suburban areas. Making a suo motu statement in the State Assembly, the Chief Minister said a ‘Mass Cleaning Programme’ would …
This review of people's perspectives on sanitation from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka consists of reflections on why interventions and projects in their settlements had succeeded or failed. The first South Asia Conference on Sanitation (SACOSAN) in Dhaka in 2003 gave a call for ‘people-centred, community-led, gender-sensitive and …
This document presents the National Rural Sanitation and Hygiene Strategy 2012-2022 finalised by the Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation to achieve sanitation related goals in a time-bound manner. This document presents the Rural Sanitation and Hygiene Strategy of the Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation for the period 2012 …
The study presents the revised approach in the programme which emphasizes more on Information, Education and Communication (IEC), Human Resource Development, Capacity Building and Hygiene Education for effective behaviour change or activities to increase awareness among the rural people and generation of demand for sanitary facilities with involvement of PRIs, …
Maharashtra state governor, K Sankaranarayanan, has stressed the need for better cleanliness and sanitation in the villages. He was speaking on Monday as the chief guest during the distribution of Nirmal Gram Puraskar (NGP) for 2010 to sarpanchs of 694 villages in the state at Shiv Chhatrapati sports complex, Balewadi. …
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today launched the Global Sanitation Fund (GSF) programme at a function organised by the NR Management Consultants (NRMC), the executing agency, at the NEDFi House here, an official release said. The GSF aims to collaborate closely with the Indian Government
