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. …
BHUBANESWAR: All below poverty line (BPL) and above poverty line (APL) families in the rural areas will be provided latrines by March, 2012. The state government has decided to set up a sanitation mission for the implementation of the scheme. Chief secretary TK Mishra discussed the issue with the district …
This paper attempts an analysis of efficiency variation in health system performance in Karnataka. By using the stochastic frontier technique, it provides an idealised yardstick to evaluate the performance of the health sector. Carried out in two stages of estimation, the results of our model, using district-level panel data, indicate …
Access to safe water is necessary for lives and livelihoods. In India, a mid-term assessment reveals that the country has already met its MDG (Millennium Development Goal) in terms of expanding access to water infrastructure although in the parallel subsector of sanitation progress is falling far short of the mark. …
Bhopal: The novel technical methods for ensuring availability of drinking water in the rural areas and increasing groundwater table should be publicised at the national level so that people of the entire country can take advantage of these methods. This decision was taken at a two-day state level workshop after …
The Central Government has released grants to Assam, Mizoram and West Bengal to ensure total sanitation that includes doing away with the practice of open defecation in rural areas. "The Ministry of Rural Development has released grant in aid worth Rs 564.03 lakh to two districts in Assam under the …
Every village in the taluk should give importance to cleanliness and the villagers should live a good civilised life, said legislator Varthur R Prakash. Legislator R Varthur Prakash launching various development works under Suvarna Grama scheme in Kodiramasundra in Kolar taluk on Saturday. Balaji Chennaiah, Begli Suryaprakash, Vakkaleri Ramu, Dhanamattanahalli …
In October 2008 the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health invited international representatives from NGOs, government, academia and the UN to a meeting to discuss barriers and to identify breakthroughs to providing sanitation for all. This document has been compiled to summarize the discussions, place them within …
The main objectives of Nirmal Gram Puraskar (NGP) are: to bring sanitation to the forefront of social and political discourse for development in rural India; to develop open defecation free and clean villages that will act as models for others to emulate; to give incentive to PRIs to sustain the …
This latest report by the WHO/UNICEF presents current status and trends in 209 countries towards reaching the drinking water & sanitation MDG target, along with an assessment as to what these trends reveal. This report by the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation (JMP) confirms that advances …
It is said that old habits die hard, but the hill state is surging ahead on the path of becoming completely free from open defecation by the end of 2010. The state had started various programmes, schemes and sanitation awareness campaign in this direction, the results of which were now …
CHANDGARH: All the households in Kaluana village of Sirsa district have access to sanitation facilities as it has managed to get rid of the practice of open defecation. And thanks to the plantation drive, it now wears a green cap. The village school has clean and functional toilets and has …
A leading international sanitation NGO, Sulabh International, will start its operation in Japan by constructing six low cost toilets popularly known as "Sulabh Sauchalaya" in rural areas of Japan. Sulabh International's founder Bindeshwar Pathak had visited Tokyo recently where he interacted with the officials of Japan International Cooperation Agency who …
Thirty-something Gulab Kunju remembers the days when she would drink milk to quench thirst because drinking water was scarce. Her village Dhaurada had three hand pumps to meet the needs of more than 120 families settled in four hamlets. Each day she would make several trips to the nearest hand …
The State government will construct 33 lakh toilets in the next two years, announced Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Minister Jagadish Shettar on Thursday. The drive will be taken up in villages under the
