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. …
Chief Minister seeks technical support on various projects With the World Bank coming forth to fund projects for the promotion of religious, heritage, health and ethnic tourism, State Government was on Tuesday asked to work out various modalities so that Punjab was placed as a global destination on the international …
Swachchh Bharat by 2019 - need for convergence in communicating the messages on sanitation. Letter from Joint Secretary, Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation to all chief secretaries and administrators.
Punjab Government has strengthened its drive to provide sanitation facilities to village households through sanctioned Rs20 crore to construct toilets free of cost in rural areas for the families living below the poverty line. “The department’s proposal has been approved by the Punjab Government with an aim to provide sanitation …
National Human Rights Commission has asked the Odisha Government to furnish an action taken report on alleged inefficacy of ‘bio-toilets’ developed by Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and lack of adequate toilets leading to mass open defecation in Bhadrak district. The Commission issued the notice after taking cognisance of …
The ministry has finalized targets for the first 100 days of the new government under various components of Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan (NBA). consequently targets have been fixed for each of the States/UTs to be achieved by 31st August, 2014.
The authorities in Fatehabad have set a target of constructing toilets in 4,964 house under the Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan. Speaking to mediapersons after reviewing the progress of Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan in the district, Deputy Commissioner DK Bahera said the authorities had already achieved the 73 per cent of the target …
The rape and murder of two teenaged girls in Uttar Pradesh has put the focus back on lack of access to private toilets in villages, forcing women and girls to go out to defecate in the open which makes them vulnerable to sexual violence. Lack of toilets is also a …
While the Union Government led by Naredra Modi has embarked upon a target of setting up two lakh toilets for women in 5,000 villages under a Mahatma Gandhi Clean India Programme, use of toilets in Odisha is very poor and the State deserves more attention in this regard, feels a …
The Government of Assam today launched the Rs 1,474 crore Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project for Low Income States (RWSSP–LIS) in seven districts of Assam. The World Bank is supporting this project with an International Development Association (IDA) credit of Rs 737 crore (US $240 million). IDA is the …
AHMEDABAD: In the wake of recent gang rape and murder of two teenage girls in Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat chief minister Anandi Patel today asked the rural women to get toilets built in their houses through a government scheme. "I request all the women to take up a mission to build …
The case of Badaun rape and murder has exposed the lack of toilet facilities in the country. In Rajasthan, too, the sanitation facilities are in a pathetic state. As per Census 2011, in rural Rajasthan about 80% households do not have toilet facilities. The state's position is slightly better than …
Since 1990, almost 2 billion people globally have gained access to improved sanitation, and 2.3 billion have gained access to drinking water from improved sources. Some 1.6 billion of these people have piped water connections in their homes or compounds, according to a new WHO/UNICEF report, entitled Progress on drinking …
Carved out of RDPR, it will function by August 15 A new department will be carved out of Rural Development and Panchayat Raj (RDPR) Department to take care of drinking water and sanitation requirements in rural areas. The department will come into existence by August 15. RDPR Minister H K …
Five districts of Garo hills today pledged to ensure an aggressive approach towards meeting the mandate of Nirmal (Clean) Meghalaya by 2017. The deputy commissioners of the five districts gave presentations at the two day consultative workshop on “Nirmal Meghalaya” highlighting the substantial gains, which have been made to increase …
Meghalaya, which is still facing the problem of open defecation, has set a target for nirmal (clean) state for the year 2014-15. Giving a presentation at a two-day consultative workshop towards achieving “Nirmal Meghalaya” organised here today, Meghalaya PHE additional chief engineer P.K. Pandey said the target set componentwise for …
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Three projects have received funding support from the Sanitation Financing Partnership Trust Fund, created last year by the Asian Development Bank, in recognition that complex urban and coastal environments require new approaches to septage management. The Fund had been created to provide safe sanitation to families in Asia’s cities and …
The Ministry, with the assistance of Water and Sanitation Program (WSP), has put together a second volume of Compendium of Best Practices on Rural Sanitation titled ‘Pathway to Success’. This is in continuation with the first volume, titled ‘From Dreams to Reality’, released in 2010. The 16 success stories documented …
The change in mindset of rural people alone will bring about a change in society and yield desirable results in total sanitation programme, according to Collector N. Venkatachalam. Addressing the gathering after flagging off an awareness rally on public health and clean environment here on Tuesday, he said offering funds …
