There are more than 12 lakh households in Assam which have not had access to toilets. Despite the Total Sanitation Campaign, the practice of open defecation continues in the State.

The Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) or Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan (NBA) is a community–led total sanitation programme launched by the Government of India in 1999. It is a demand–driven and people–centred sanitation programme. The main goal of the Total Sanitation Campaign is to eradicate the practice of open defecation by 2017. Villages that achieve the ‘open defecation free’ status receive monetary rewards and high publicity under a programme called Nirmal Gram Puraskar.

A total of 1.05 million Austrians were at poverty risk in 2011, the latest available figures released in a report revealed yesterday, ORF reported.

The World Bank has come out with a multi-billion ($12-20 billion) four-year plan aimed at bringing down poverty levels in seven low-income Indian States, where a majority of India’s poor live, to j

The Assam Government has launched a humane healthcare scheme for children from below poverty line (BPL) and low-income families to help them undertake medical treatment for some critical diseases.

Rural development minister Jairam Ramesh has urged the state governments to improve and expedite existing land reform measures to address the needs of the poor and landless, a tacit recognition tha

The third ministerial-level meeting of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) member countries on poverty alleviation is scheduled to be held in the capital on April 5, Friday

JAMMU: Minister for Urban Development and Urban Local Bodies, Nawang Rigzin Jora today informed the Lower House that Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation (HUPA) has sanctioned two housing schemes for houseless families of slum areas for providing dwelling units and allied infrastructure facilities under LNNURM.

Replying to a question by Prof. Gharu Ram Bhagat, the Minister said that under Basic Services to Urban Poor for Mission Cities of Jammu and Srinagar five projects three for Jammu and two for Srinagar have been sanctioned and are under implementation.