The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
The WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation (JMP) monitors progress towards the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target to halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation. The JMP publishes a report every two years, which presents an update …
As many as 176 villages will be benefited from 30 surface water schemes. The zilla panchayat engineering division of Dakshina Kannada has proposed to draw more water from the River Nethravathi. It is for supplying drinking water to 176 villages in Dakshina Kannada using surface water from other rivers such …
Maharashtra is the first state in the country to launch state-wide reforms by empowering communities represented by Village Panchayat and VWSC to plan, design, execute and manage investment in drinking water and sanitation sector. This has entailed moving from top driven to bottom driven decision-making and involving beneficiaries at all …
JAMMU: Committee on Estimates (EC) of Legislative Assembly today asked the officers and engineers of Public Health Engineering (PHE) Department to gear up the field functionaries and identify the those habitations which have not been provided drinking water facilities so far. The Committee stressed upon them to prepare Detailed Project …
PURULIA, 4 DEC: Around 1,500 students of several primary and upper primary schools in Ayodhya hills have been studying in classrooms that do not have either electricity or proper drinking water facilities for many years now due to lack of funds. There are around 22 primary and upper primary schools …
Acting on a petition filed in public interest blaming Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal of indulging in favouritism in setting up water purifiers mostly in areas falling under his own constituency, the Punjab and Haryana High Court today issued a notice to the state of Punjab. No scientific basis …
DIBRUGARH: With an aim to implement water security and safety plan, the Public Health Engineering (PHE) Department, Dibrugarh has entrusted the NESYPM, an Non–Government Organization (NGO) with the task to survey the status of drinking water in the rural areas of Lahoal and Barbaruah block in Dibrugarh District. An awareness …
Ranchi, Oct. 27: The Planning Commission has set a December deadline for the Jharkhand government to complete a majority of the projects launched under the Centre’s Integrated Action Plan (IAP) in the 14 Naxalite-hit districts of the state. Planning Commission senior consultant Ranjan Chatterjee, who arrived in Ranchi this morning, …
This standard operating procedure will include all functions pertaining to disaster prevention, institutional mechanism, preparedness, early warning, relief, recovery and rehabilitation. This standard operating procedure will apply to RWSS Department/PHED/PRED/Sanitation departments/ Board dealing with rural water supply and sanitation for natural disasters that the state is prone to. It shall …
Bhubaneswar: The war of letters between Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh and chief minister Naveen Patnaik over expenditure under National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP) intensified further on Monday with the latter blaming the Centre for delaying release of funds to the state. The state government could not spend …
Jairam Ramesh on Monday broke off from his CAG-bashing ministerial colleagues and asked the agency to audit the over . 1,00,000-crore annual allocation by his department to rural development schemes. In a letter to the CAG, Jairam Ramesh has sought the appointment of special accountant generals to oversee audit of …
This report deals with environmental assessment and environmental management framework for the World Bank supported Jalanidhi-2 programme of the Kerala Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Agency (KRWSA), an important player in rural water supply and sanitation sector of the state. The agency was constituted to implement “Jalanidhi” Project and has …
The Orissa government’s off-and-on encounter on administrative lapses in the Central fund utilisation, implementation of some flagship programmes and strict enforcement of environment laws with regard to industrial project commissioning continues as ever. Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh in his latest move has asked the Orissa government to demand …
To meet the drinking water needs of Dehra, Khundian, Jaisinghpur and Palampur, Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal on Thursday commissioned Himachal’s biggest rural drinking water supply augmentation scheme in the traditionally water-starved Changer areas of Kangra at Kangehan. The scheme will cost the state Rs 68.33 crore. The drinking water …
Mumbai Loans disbursed to state governments by the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) crossed the Rs 1,00,000 crore mark cumulatively and stood at Rs 1,02,844 crore as on September 30. NABARD has crossed a disbursement of Rs one lakh crore for the creation of rural infrastructure in …
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government has decided to appoint 314 junior engineers under the Rural Development Department, one each in 314 blocks of the State, to monitor the provision of drinking water. Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik approved a proposal of the Department in this regard on Tuesday. The junior engineers will …
NOIDA: The water supply in the city is expected to improve after the Noida Jal Board on Monday commissioned a new underground reservoir in sector 63 with a capacity of 1,500 kilolitres. "This reservoir will supply water exclusively for residents of Bahlolpur, a village near sector 63," said an official. …
NEW DELHI, Sep 18 (IANS): Assam has been allocated $2.5 million by a UN body to help improve hygiene in rural areas, stressing on the economic gains that would follow "when people spend less money on preventable sanitation-related diseases". India is among 10 countries - seven African and three Asian …
Arbout 26 per cent of the water samples collected by the Bathinda health authorities in eight months (between January and August) have failed the bacteriological test during first testing, conducted to check the presence of E-coli bacteria at the Public Health Lab, Chandigarh. The health authorities collected 393 water samples …
All rural households have access to piped water supply in adequate quantity with a metered tap connection providing safe drinking water, throughout the year, that meets prevalent national drinking water standards, leading to healthy and well nourished children and adults and improved livelihoods and education. Continuous uninterrupted water supply is …
