Jairam Ramesh Toilet

• India Tops in Open Defecation, Says WHO; Jairam Ramesh Calls it a 'Huge Shame'

  India still has the largest number of people defecating in open in the world, according to a new United Nations report. The report has prompted the Indian Government to admit it as a "huge shame".

• Now Nitish Kumar stakes claim to 'toilets first' policy

  While Narendra Modi and the Congress squabble over copyright for the "toilets first, temples later" idea, Nitish Kumar has said that those who do not have a toilet in their home will not be allowed to contest local body elections in Bihar.

• Jairam Ramesh's latest dig at Narendra Modi over toilet remark

  Union Minister Jairam Ramesh today taunted Narendra Modi over his recent controversial remark on toilets, saying that the Congress-led government had initiated programme of building lakhs of toilets "when some leaders had not attained enlightenment."

• Inventing a better toilet for India, funded by Bill Gates

  The remarks over toilets may have led to war of words between Narendra Modi and Jairam Ramesh, but the issue of sanitation, which was at the core of this tussle, seems to have finally found the attention that it deserves.

• Narendra Modi got his enlightenment 22 years late: Jairam Ramesh on 'toilets before temples' remark

  Jairam Ramesh has launched an acidic attack on Narendra Modi for his "more toilets than temples" comment, saying it is borne out of his "blind desire for the Prime Minister's position."

• 'Toilets before temples': Good for Narendra Modi, so why not me, asks Jairam Ramesh

  What's good for Narendra Modi, ought to have been good for Jairam Ramesh, says the Congress of the Gujarat Chief Minister's "more toilets than temples" comment, which earned him much applause from his audience of 7000 college students in Delhi yesterday.

• Toilets before temples, says Narendra Modi; how BJP has changed, says Congress

  Narendra Modi earned a round of loud applause and much cheering when he told 7000 college students in a Delhi stadium on Wednesday that he would build more toilets in India before he would build temples.

• Manual scavenging still a reality in India: Jairam Ramesh

  Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh on Monday admitted manual scavenging was still a reality in India and wished social reformers like Raja Rammohan Roy and Lord Bentinck had given it as much attention as they did to abolishing Sati.

• Wardens bang drums to halt peeing in public

  Volunteers in Rajasthan's Jhunjhunu district armed with drums and whistles are to lead a crackdown on going to the toilet in public under a new scheme, a report said Monday.

• No toilet, no bride, says Jairam Ramesh

  Days after he kicked up a row by stating that there are more temples than toilets in India, Union Minister Jairam Ramesh today urged women not to get married into families which do not have toilets in their homes.

• Jairam Ramesh's remark on toilets and temples stirs controversy

  Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh's remark that the country needs more toilets than temples has stirred a political row. While the BJP hit out at Mr Ramesh for hurting the 'fine fabric of faith and religion' in the country, his own party, the Congress, disapproved of it.

• States fudging data, taking money but not building toilets: Jairam Ramesh

  People of 67 per cent households in rural India defecate in the open and several states "fudge" data on building of toilets, the government told the Rajya Sabha today.

• Indian rail is world's largest 'open toilet': Jairam Ramesh

  Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh has proposed projects worth $130 million project to rid India of the scourge of open defecation and clean up a rail system he described as the world's "largest open toilet", reports said on Friday.

• Budget 2012 could give more for sanitation: Jairam Ramesh

  Sanitation in rural India would get a boost with a likely 40 per cent increase in the budget this year for toilet construction, he said.

• Women demand mobile phones, not toilets: Jairam Ramesh

  Minister's remarks come after a tribal woman was honoured for her campaign to get a public toilet built in her husband's village.