Only 13% of Rajasthanis have access to toilets
JAIPUR: In Rajasthan only 40% of rural household have toilets and less than 13% of the population in the state have access to it. Acting on this alarming situation, the state government has drafted
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Five Garo Hills districts pledge for Clean Meghalaya
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 improvement in sanitation.
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Second-phase Western Nepal Rural Drinking Water and Sanitation project launched
Babiyachour (Myagdi), May 9: The second-phase Western Nepal Rural Drinking Water and sanitation Project has been launched to increase access of Myagdi folks to drinking water and sanitation. The project
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Toward sustainable water and sanitation services in Sri Lanka: beyond sustainable development goals to supporting the national economic vision
Sri Lanka’s ambitious goals for economic growth and joining the community of uppermiddle-income countries call for setting high standards for the water supply and sanitation (WSS) sector. To support the
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Govt considering rural sanitation-NREGA link
Rural Development Minister C P Joshi said on Thursday that government was considering interlinking its rural sanitation programme with NREGA to eradicateopen defecation by 2010. Joshi said interlinking would lead to utilisation of funds available under material and labour components of NREGA and thereby expedite the programme.
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Nirmal Gram Puraskar guidelines 2012
Nirmal Gram Puraskar till 2011 was given by Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation, Government of India at all levels of PRIs that is Gram Panchayat, Block Panchayat and district Panchayat. It has
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Draft Environmental and Social Systems Assessment (ESSA) report: Swachh Bharat Mission- Gramin
Government of India (GoI) has recently launched Swachh Bharat Mission-Gramin (SBM-G) campaign and program to accelerate efforts to achieve universal sanitation coverage, improve cleanliness and eliminate
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Constitute Gram Sabha Swasthya Gram Tadarth Samiti in all villages
The Panchayat and Rural Development Department has issued directives to all district collectors and Chief Executive Officers of all district Panchayats to constitute
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Sulabh begins ‘toilet for every house’ drive from Badaun
Taking a cue from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Independence Day speech, Sulabh International on Sunday kick-started its nationwide ‘Toilet for Every House’ campaign from Katra Sadatganj village in Badaun
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NGOs urge govt to improve access to sanitation facilities
WaterAid and Plan International Pakistan along with other civil society organisations across Pakistan joined hands to launch a yearlong campaign calling for government to keep its promises to improve access
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Three new projects receive funding to improve safe sanitation
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
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Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India on Rejuvenation of River Ganga (Namami Gange)
The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has indicted the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG), a nodal central agency to implement the government's flagship 'Namami Gange' programme, for delay in
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Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India on Rejuvenation of River Ganga (Namami Gange)
The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has indicted the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG), a nodal central agency to implement the government's flagship 'Namami Gange' programme, for delay in
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Identifying the potential for results-based financing for sanitation
Results-Based Financing (RBF) refers to a broad family of financial instruments. With RBF, public funding is provided only if pre-specified results have been achieved. Its use in the sanitation sector
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CSR guideline for sanitation programme
The main objective of the CSR Guideline with regard to Sanitation would be as: To promote better human health and improve quality of life among people living in rural areas through improved sanitation
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Scaling up rural sanitation: findings from the impact evaluation baseline survey in Madhya Pradesh, India
<p>Efforts to monitor and verify the success of rural sanitation initiatives face many challenges.
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Eco loos to provide relief in rural G'barga
Govt, Infosys enter into an agreement to build 10,000 toilets designed by software engineer There’s relief in the pipeline for the residents of Gulbarga’s villages. For, their embarrassment of answering
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31% rural schools have toilets: WHO
Only 31 per cent of rural Indian households and schools are equipped with toilets, a WHO/Unicef survey has revealed. This is much lower than the government-compiled figure of 67 per cent.
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Coffee table book on Swachh Bharat
Union Minister for Rural Development and Drinking Water and Sanitation Shri Birender Singh said that the pace of construction of toilets in rural India has gathered momentum and within one year of the