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. …
Despite the fact that India is experiencing tremendous growth as an industrialised society, it is estimated that at least 400 million people live on or below the poverty line. The majority of these people live in the many tens of thousands of rural villages scattered around the sub-continent. Life in …
This toolkit explains the principles of doing business in poverty-stricken areas, offers a step-by-step business development approach and provides practical tools, tips and background information. The toolkit is based on the experience of entrepreneurs in the water and sanitation sector in India, but is equally applicable to markets in other …
Maharashtra is the first state in the country to launch state-wide reforms by empowering communities represented by Village Panchayat and VWSC to plan, design, execute and manage investment in drinking water and sanitation sector. This has entailed moving from top driven to bottom driven decision-making and involving beneficiaries at all …
The Municipal Corporation (MC) will be outsourcing sanitation services in the city. The issue was discussed in the General House Meeting held on Thursday. The areas to be outsourced have been divided into sectors, colonies and villages. The manpower required in each area has been assessed keeping in view the …
District Water Sanitation Mission in collaboration with Water Aid India celebrated the World Toilet Day here yesterday. Local MLA Mr Maheswar Mohanty, collector Mr Bhaskar Jyoti Sharma, Water Sanitation Mission chairman Mr Sankarsana Parida, Puri municipality chairman Mrs Shanti Lata Pradhan, and more than 600 villagers from different gram panchayats …
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday outlined a Gandhian approach to improving sanitation in south Asian countries. Addressing the Third South Asian Conference on Sanitation after India took over chairmanship from Pakistan, Dr. Singh underlined the Mahatma
The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh inaugurated the Third South Asian Conference on Sanitation in New Delhi on 18 November 2008. This Conference has a very special significance because the year 2008 has been declared as the International Year of Sanitation.
CHENNAI: Villages in Tamil Nadu have won a record number of the Nirmal Gram Puraskar awards for rural sanitation this year. The State won 1,474 awards in 2007-08, against 296 the year before. The award carries a cash prize: Rs. 2 lakh for villages with population below 5,000 and Rs.4 …
TIRUCHI: Tiruchi has bagged the highest number of Nirmal Puraskar Awards for 2008 in the State. The annual awards are given by the Union government for cent per cent achievement in village sanitation. As many as 110 panchayats in the district have got the award this year, followed by 98 …
This report is the outcome of a study undertaken to understand the principles of what has worked and what has not worked in Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) which is the national programme on reforms in rural sanitation launched by the Government of India in 1999. The focus of this study …
Overcoming the crisis in sanitation and water is one of the greatest human development challenges of the 21st century. Success in addressing the challenge through a concerted national and international response would act as a catalyst for public health, education, poverty reduction and impetus for economic growth. It would give …
NAGAPATTINAM: A total of 96 villages in the district have received the Nirmal Gram Puraskar award for 2007-2008, Collector M. Jayaraman said in a press release on Thursday. He said that the villages that had received the award had implemented the measures under the Total Sanitation Campaign effectively, constructing toilets …
NEW DELHI: The Centre on Wednesday expressed its resolve to provide toilets and potable water in all rural schools across the country by the end of the current financial year. Union Minister of State for Rural Development Chandra Sekhar Sahu made the twin commitments replying to a question in the …
GUWAHATI President Pratibha Devisingh Patil here on Monday called for sustainable village development and solid waste management. She blamed the low sanitation facilities responsible for the large number of school dropouts in rural India. Giving away Nirmal Gram Puraskar to the village heads of 1,059 villages of 13 states in …
Creating awareness: C.K. Veeranan, Project Officer, Krishnagiri District Rural Development Agency, showing pamphlets explaining the conditions of National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
