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Steps to boost health services in State

The State Government today introduced The Assam Public Health Bill, 2010, in the Legislative Assembly with a view to protecting and fulfilling the rights of the people in matters related to health and well-being, health equity and justice.

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AMC undertakes survey to check manual scavenging

Ahmedabad: Perhaps for the first time, Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation has taken up cudgels to make the city free of open defecation spots (ODs) and manual scavenging.

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12 Garo villages rewarded for total sanitation movement

TURA: The Meghalaya Government has given rewards of fifty thousand rupees each to twelve Garo villages in East Garo Hills district for successfully undertaking the Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) of the central government achieving the target goal of hundred percent.

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Sulabh not to run MCD toilets

NEW DELHI: Sulabh International, which operates public toilets across the country, has refused to take up any work offered by the MCD for the maintenance of public toilets in the Capital in view of upcoming Games.

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Disposable toilet can help grow crops

A Swedish entrepreneur is trying to market and sell a biodegradable plastic bag that acts as a single-use toilet for urban slums in the developing world.

Once used, the bag can be knotted and buried, and a layer of urea crystals breaks down the waste into fertilizer, killing off disease-producing pathogens found in feces.

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Sanitation complex in poor shape

Miscreants have removed the doors of the toilets

Not in use: The Integrated Women and Children Sanitary Complex in Pudur Agraharam in Veerapandi Union lacks basic facilities such as water. —

SALEM: An integrated women and children sanitation complex in Periyar Nagar of Pudur Agraharam in Veerapandi union remains unused for the past six years. The reason is ‘no water.’

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Toilet that can be used as fertiliser

New York, March 2: A Swedish entrepreneur is planning to mass produce Peepoo, a biodegradable plastic bag that acts as a single-use toilet, which may help millions of urban slum dwellers in develop- ing countries like India.

The bag, which is current- ly undergoing field trials in India and Kenya, is the brainchild of Anders Wil- helmson, an architect and professor in Stockholm.

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In the market for proper sanitation

Poor sanitation helps spread disease, yet efforts to provide subsidized toilets have been resisted for cultural reasons in many developing countries. To improve the rate of uptake, some people are now advocating a market-based approach.

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Green ride gets green light

Mamta Banerjee tried to colour the railways green in her budget on Wednesday announcing that the biggest employer in the country would distribute 2.6 million energy efficient CFL bulbs to its housing colonies and officials.

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New garbage stations, public utilities for New Delhi

To save on construction and maintenance costs as well as earn revenue, the New Delhi Municipal Council proposes to set up 85 new garbage stations and public toilet utility blocks on a public-private partnership basis north of Rajpath.

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