Govt mulls boost for rural sanitation
The state government would organise street plays and musical skits to spread awareness against open defecation and to encourage ruralfolk to construct toilets in their homes. On Thursday, panchayati
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World Bank awards another sanitation project to Punjab
Enthused by the completion of a project worth Rs 1,280 crore six months before schedule, the World Bank has sanctioned another Rs 2,200 crore rural water supply and sanitation project for Punjab. Water
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57L families don't have toilets in rural Maharashtra: Sanitation minister
The Narendra Modi-led government may have launched its ambitious Swacch Bharat Abhiyan which has the elimination of open defecation as one of its objectives, but in an indication of the tough task it has
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Namibia: Karas Residents Eagerly Await End to Bucket Toilet System
Kosis — Disposing of human waste has become a part of her life - she must empty the bucket when it is full of human faeces and she washes the bucket to use it again when nature calls. The bucket system
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22 villages declared open defecation-free
A total of 22 village panchayats have been declared ‘open defecation-free’ in Erode district during the gram sabha meeting last week. Common toilets To curb the practice of open defecation, every
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Scheme to build toilets for BPL families far from target in Jind
The inefficiency of government authorities may deprive scores of the district’s below poverty line (BPL) families of seeing construction of a toilet in their homes this year as well. A look at the figures
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No data-led changes in Swachh Bharat: CSE
Prime Minister Narendra ModiPrime Minister Narendra Modi There has been a huge political and financial investment on the Swachh Bharat Mission by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The programme, however,
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Pathway to success: compendium of best practices in rural sanitation in India
<p>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’.</p>
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Sacosan VII: financing universal access to sanitation and hygiene by 2030 in South Asia
The paper draws significant inputs and builds on the thematic Sector Financing WASH paper prepared by the Secretariat for SACOSAN VII, Ministry of Climate Change, Government of Pakistan. The paper identifies
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Letter from Rajesh Bhushan (Joint Secretary) Ministry of Rural Development regarding Swatch Bharat movement for clean India to all Secretaries, Principal Secretaries of Nodal Departments (PMGSY)
Letter from Rajesh Bhushan (Joint Secretary) Ministry of Rural Development regarding Swatch Bharat movement for clean India to all Secretaries, Principal Secretaries of Nodal Departments (PMGSY).
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Workshop on rural sanitation improvement held
The workshop for "Early Recovery Programme for Rural Sanitation in flood-affected districts of Pakistan, Phase III," was held here on Thursday to increase mutual understanding between the partners and
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Safely managed sanitation in high-density rural areas: turning fecal sludge into a resource through innovative waste management
Safely managed sanitation is a focus of the SDGs and central to stunting reduction and early childhood survival, both identified by the World Bank's Human Capital Index as critical for humans to develop
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Financing universal access to sanitation and hygiene by 2030 in South Asia
The paper draws significant inputs and builds on the thematic Sector Financing WASH paper prepared by the Secretariat for SACOSAN VII, Ministry of Climate Change, Government of Pakistan. The paper identifies
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Policy and sector reform to accelerate access to improved rural sanitation
The Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) has provided technical assistance to support government efforts to scale up rural sanitation since 2007 through Scaling Up Rural Sanitation (TSSM). One of the central
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HC asks gram panchayat to keep village clean
Gujarat high court on Monday ruled that it is the duty of a local authority to ensure proper sanitation so as to avoid problem of diseases like dengue and swine flu. The HC also maintained that the
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Review of health data in selected ODF and non-ODF districts under the SBM
This was a preliminary observational study which aimed to examine whether there are any early observed differences in the health outcomes of the children from the selected ODF villages vis-à-vis. the selected
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59.4 rural households do not have toilet facilities
With the effort put into the sanitation programme, the coverage in rural areas has gone up from one per cent in 1981 to 32.70 per cent as per Census 2011, and to 40.60 per cent. (Reuters) With the effort
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NHRC seeks action-taken report on inefficacy of bio-toilets
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)
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61 village panchayats in Namakkal declared open-defecation free
Of the total 322 village panchayats in the district, all the houses in 61 villages have individual household latrines. The villages have been declared as open defecation-free by the village panchayats.
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Learning from ODF districts in Mozambique
Mozambique has committed to achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6.2 to achieve access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all and end open defecation by 2030. Much progress