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. …
GUWAHATI: The Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) will soon start a demand drive orientation programme to remove the low cost sanitary unit. Talking to The Sentinel, GMC additional commissioner S Thiek said,
It is not uncommon in rural India to find garbage strewn around or people relieving themselves in the open due to the absence of toilets. But many villages in Madhya Pradesh are a welcome change and are known as
To learn about the sustainability of rural sanitation in Bangladesh, the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) in conjunction with the Government of Bangladesh and NGOs felt it was important to investigate several knowledge gaps: the degree to which sanitation behaviors and facilities are being sustained in Union Parishads declared ODF …
Maharashtra government has made it compulsory to have a toilet at home for getting admission in junior colleges in the rural areas. The students who don
The Handbook on ‘Establishment and Management of Community Sanitary Complexes in Rural Areas’ gives a very useful insight on the planning, construction, operation and maintenance of sanitary toilet complexes in a sustainable way. The handbook is intended primarily for programme implementers to help them understand the critical need for CSCs …
Colombo Declaration to provide increased access to sanitation adopted at the end of SACOSAN IV The SAARC sanitation summit has decided to establish a national body in each country to
Since SACOSAN-III, held in New Delhi in November 2008, India has continued to accord priority to sanitation at the national, state and local government levels. This has resulted in continued improvements in access to sanitation, increased attention to usage of toilets and sustenance of hygienic behaviour change, and safe conveyance …
In many Indian villages, women and children spend a large part of the day fetching water over long distances. This is despite the Centre’s policy to provide drinking water to all rural habitations. The government set deadlines for providing 100 per cent drinking water cover to the country’s 1.6 million …
The Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation, Ministry of Rural Development envisaged a comprehensive ‘Assessment Study of Impact and Sustainability of Nirmal Gram Puraskar’ in the country. The main purpose of the study was to assess the impact of NGP on the pace of progress of sanitation availability and usage …
Efforts to monitor and verify the success of rural sanitation initiatives face many challenges. In India, WSP is conducting baseline surveys that lay the groundwork for in-depth impact evaluations (IEs) to establish the causal impacts of sanitation improvements on specific health and welfare measures. This technical paper reports on the …
Amritsar and Bathinda have taken the lead in village sanitation if the commendation of the Government of India for Nirmal Gram Purskar 2010-11 is any indication. The Ministry of Rural Development (Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation) has selected 51 state villages for conferring upon this national award to be …
A better understanding of a county’s political and social processes and entities that determine the extent and nature of investments in sanitation could catalyze a sharp increase in numbers of people with access, especially for the poor, according to a new report released by the Water and Sanitation Program. Based …
South Africa underwent a major transition to a full democracy in 1994. The new government embarked on an ambitious program to eradicate backlogs in water supply and sanitation, underpinned by development of sound sector policy and legislation. Initially, this program was driven by the central government. In 2003 responsibilities for …
Inadequate sanitation causes India considerable economic losses, equivalent to 6.4 percent of India’s GDP in 2006 at US$53.8 billion according to this new report from the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP). Inadequate sanitation causes India considerable economic losses, equivalent to 6.4 percent of India’s GDP in 2006 at US$53.8 billion, …
At the request of the Planning Commission, Arghyam and WaterAid agreed to co-ordinate and support a process of civil society consultation for inputs on rural and urban drinking water and sanitation for generating recommendations for the Approach Paper to the 12th Five Year Plan of the Government of India. In …
The Panchayat and Rural Development Department has issued directives to all district collectors and Chief Executive Officers of all district Panchayats to constitute
Following the experience of the NGP - a one-time reward exclusively focused on motivating rural sanitation achievement, and the sanitation reward programs introduced by selected states in scaling up the rural sanitation program, many other Indian states have introduced incentive programs to motivate and reward achievements in rural sanitation by …
Only 31 per cent of rural Indian households and schools are equipped with toilets, a WHO/Unicef survey has revealed. This is much lower than the government-compiled figure of 67 per cent. The percentage of households and schools having toilets is the sanitation level, and the WHO/Unicef report says these levels …
The conference of state sanitation ministers organised in Delhi by the rural development ministry called for accelerating Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) & mainstreaming rural sanitation agenda in the public domain. <br>
