Livestock Census is a regular quinquennial exercise of Department of Animal Husbandry & Dairying (DAHD). The first Livestock Census was conducted in the year 1919 and last census i.e. 20th Livestock Census was conducted in 2019. The 21st Livestock Census exercise has been launched across the country on 25th October, …
The event also had superstar Amitabh Bachchan, the brand ambassador for Swachh Bharat, in attendance. Maharastra’s new campaign against open defecation, Darwaza Band, was launched on Tuesday at the Yashwantrao Chavan Auditorium. Part of the Swachh Bharat Mission, the campaign is aimed at eradicating open defecation across the state. Speaking …
Court was hearing PILs seeking direction to prevent vector-borne diseases The Delhi High Court on Tuesday said the Aam Aadmi Party government should run awareness programmes on dengue and chikungunya the way the pan-India campaign on Swachh Bharat is being run. A Bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and …
Activist Anthony Dias said the presentation was actively attended by senior citizens and the educated class On a day when Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his 'Mann Ki Baat' radio programme, urged the nation to participate in waste management, activists in Goregaon took a step towards creating awareness on waste …
Aurangabad: The civic body — facing sharp criticism from various sections of the society for it poor performance in the recently national level survey held under Swatch Bharat Mission — on Saturday said that people should not draw parallels between Aurangabad and Indore that emerged on top. The city dropped …
The three municipal corporations have once again fared abysmally in the Swachh Survekshan 2017. East corporation was placed at 196, south at 202 and north at 279 among 434 cities. Last year, 73 cities had been ranked and south had occupied the 39th rank, north was ranked 43rd while east …
Nashik: The city which stood 31st in terms of cleanliness and sanitation among the 73 cities surveyed last year, has been ranked 151 among the 434 cities surveyed this year. The list was released by the Union ministry of urban development on Thursday following a 'swachh survekshan survey' undertaken in …
The state capital has fared poor with 269th rank in Swachh Bharat Ranking 2017, scoring only 43% marks in overall score of 2000. Despite being capital of UP it ranked 10th in the state, much below other cities like Varanasi, Aligarh, Jhansi, Kanpur and Saharanpur etc. Major setback for the …
NEW DELHI: Indore has been ranked as the cleanest city in India+ while Gonda in Uttar Pradesh has been ranked the dirtiest among 434 cities, a government survey has found. Bhopal, another city from MP has been ranked second while Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh and Surat in Gujarat have emerged …
CHENNAI: After a muck show in 2016 - when the city was 37th among cities the Centre surveyed, coming behind Trichy, Madurai and Coimbatore - Greater Chennai Corporation is keeping its fingers crossed ahead of Thursday's Swachh Survekshan 2017 announcement results, hoping for a better ranking on the back of …
A total of 6.60 lakh hollow cement blocks, 3.60 lakh concrete cement rings and 30,000 cement bags were utilised for the purpose.A total of 6.60 lakh hollow cement blocks, 3.60 lakh concrete cement rings and 30,000 cement bags were utilised for the purpose. TRICHY: In an attempt to equip all …
Dehradun: A ‘Swachh Survekshan’ undertaken by the Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD) to rank cities based on their progress under the Swachh Bharat Mission has started. Quality Council of India (QCI) assessors will rank seven cities, including Dehradun, in Uttarakhand on their sanitation. Ravneet Cheema, commissioner, Dehradun nagar nigam said, …
Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Thursday announced that polythene would be banned in the state from May 1. "Cleanliness campaign is being undertaken after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the state. One of the prime obstacle in keeping cities clean is the use of polythene, …
Nearly 43 per cent of India’s rural population defecate in the open, according to the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation. As per a report published in 2015, 59.43 per cent of the world population defecating in the open live in India, Minister of State for Drinking Water and Sanitation …
KOCHI: At a time when the ‘Swachh bharat abhiyan’ programme is busy igniting minds about keeping one’s locality clean, the Nithya Sahaya Matha Church, Cheranalloor, had long since taken up the initiative to dispose off plastic waste in effective ways. In what appears to be a collective mission undertaken by …
A third of the 2·5 billion people worldwide without access to improved sanitation live in India, as do two-thirds of the 1·1 billion practising open defecation and a quarter of the 1·5 million who die annually from diarrhoeal diseases. The researchers aimed to assess the effectiveness of a rural sanitation …
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, is straining to achieve the desired results. There is a struggle to bring in the much required behavioural change among people …
National Consultation on Rural Sanitation hosted by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) in New Delhi calls for triggering mindset change, but lack of credible data on health and sanitation is a challenge There has been a huge political and financial investment on the Swachh Bharat Mission by Prime …
Amid the World Bank report claiming air pollution in 2013 led to 1.4 million deaths, experts from 17 institutions put forward 10 solutions to "breathable air" in Indian cities, urging the launch of a "National Clean Air Mission" on the lines of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. The experts at World Sustainable …
City declared free from open defecation Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC) on Wednesday added another feather to its cap. The Quality Council of India (QCI), a third party agency identified by the union ministry of urban development, awarded the ‘Swachhata Certificate’ to Mangaluru for being an open defecation-free (ODF) city. The …
CHENNAI: At least 17,325 houses in various parts of the city are yet to get toilet facilities. The Greater Chennai Corporation has issued orders to begin work on construction of toilets utilising funds under Swachh Bharat Mission. As per data compiled by the civic body, most of the 6,281 applications …
