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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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- 12/03/2010
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- Assam Tribune (Guwahati)
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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.
- Date:
- 12/03/2010
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- Times Of India (Ahmedabad)
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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.
- Date:
- 11/03/2010
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- Shillong Times (Shillong)
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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.
- Date:
- 08/03/2010
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- Hindu (New Delhi)
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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.
- Date:
- 03/03/2010
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- Times Of India (New Delhi)
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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.’
- Date:
- 03/03/2010
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- Hindu (Chennai)
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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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- 03/03/2010
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- Asian Age (New Delhi)
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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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- Mar 2010
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- Bulletin of the World Health Organization Vol: 88 Issue: 3 pp: 167-168
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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.
- Date:
- 25/02/2010
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- Times Of India (New Delhi)
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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.
- Date:
- 25/02/2010
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- Hindu (New Delhi)
