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. …
Union Minister of Rural Development Dr.C.P.Joshi emphasized the need to address the issues of access and quality of sanitation facilities in rural areas across the country. He has also underlined the need to involve Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs), integration with other programs and spread public awareness about the advantages of …
State Ministers Conference is scheduled to be held on 28th October, 2010 at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi. The main objectives of the Conference would be to provide a forum for the participation of the political leadership at State level, NGOs and international resource agencies to develop a Strategic Plan of …
India is experiencing paradigm shift in rural sanitation with the launch of the Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC). Mobilisation, motivation and innovative financial incentives are bringing about positive sanitation and hygiene behaviour changes amongst rural communities. This document seeks to capture successful case studies, success stories, and best practices from States …
Ombudsman orders completion of work before December 29 Kozhikode: M.R. Hariharan Nair, Ombudsman for Local Self-Government Institutions, on Tuesday, ordered the City Corporation authorities to complete the construction of public toilets for the exclusive use of women within three months. At a sitting here, the Ombudsman said the Corporation Engineer …
The objective of this study is to investigate how output-based aid (OBA) could be used to increase sustainable access to sanitation services. This study arose from the observation that, even though OBA has gradually emerged as an important way to finance access to basic services, experience with OBA-type financing in …
Prashant Rupera | TNN Vadodara/Anand: The Kheda District Co-operative Milk Producers Union Limited (KDCMPUL), popularly known as Amul Dairy, has launched a novel scheme for total rural sanitation. The dairy has set a target for itself whereby not a single milk producer will attend to nature
The objective of this study was to evaluate and quantify the economic benefits attributable to improvements in water supply and sanitation in rural India.
Traveling around in Arunachal Pradesh is an experience of a lifetime. With geographical and infrastructural hurdles, very less mortals must have done the globe-trotting business here except for Tomi Ete, a technocrat in various capacities as a government employee. At least he had the endurance to turn all his on-job …
TURA: As many as eleven Village Health and Sanitation Committees (VHSC) under Gambegre block were recently handed over cheques amounting to twenty thousand rupees each to improve the health conditions of the villagers and ensure proper sanitation to prevent outbreak of diseases. The Village Health and Sanitation Committees which received …
Authorities asked to improve sanitary conditions in schools and anganwadi centres General review:E.G. Sugavanam MP (centre) addressing the district monitoring committee meeting at the Collectorate on Tuesday. Collector V. Arun Roy (left) and Additional Collector (Development) KRISHNAGIRI: Twenty-four village panchayats in the district have been selected and recommended to the …
The vision of A Nirmal Bharat! is the dream of a nation where every person has an aspiration and right to live in an environment, which is clean and healthy. It is an environment where the people living within imbibes and practices living in a clean environment as a way …
The main objectives of the TSC are: Bring about an improvement in the general quality of life in the rural areas; Accelerate sanitation coverage in rural areas to access to toilets to all by 2012; Motivate communities and Panchayati Raj Institutions promoting sustainable sanitation facilities through awareness creation and health …
This document is the culmination of research and discussions on the experiences of civil society organisations implementing sustainable sanitation campaigns in six Indian states. The initiatives featured in the book indicate that a typical campaign spread over three to five years comprises four distinct phases and involves a series of …
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. …
