Sanitation Programmes

Social media chatter has been picking up steadily since morning today when India's massive vaccination programme against COVID-19 started with a sanitation worker getting the first shot of the two-dose vaccine. The country is prioritising nurses, doctors and other frontline medical staff since they run the highest risk of getting infected.

IIT Kharagpur said that it has planned to deploy the vehicle on campus as the administration expects to face a shortage of sanitation staff even after lockdown opens.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will pay homage to Mahatma Gandhi on his 149th birth anniversary today and attend programmes related to sanitation and renewable energy. The emphasis will be on the 'Swachhata Hi Seva' mission as the day marks the beginning of the 150th year of Mahatma Gandhi's birth.

The annual report is produced by the World Health Organization/UN Children's Fund Joint Monitoring Programme, or JMP, which has been monitoring global progress on drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) since 1990.

About 30 per cent increase in upstream tree cover in rural watersheds could have a comparable effect to improved water sanitation, such as the addition of indoor plumbing or toilets.

NDTV-Dettol Banega Swachh India is a five-year 360-degree campaign aimed at spreading awareness about sanitation, empowering citizens with better hygiene and sanitation facilities across the country.

To make the open defecation free campaign successful and create awareness about sanitation in the deistrict, the Zila Swachchhata Samiti (district committee for sanitation) has started a programme "Anokhi Amethi Ka Anokha Bhai".

With various types of fevers affecting over two lakh people across Kerala and leaving more than 100 dead, an all-party meet today appealed to the public to join the government's massive cleaning programme to check further spread of the disease. The meeting, chaired by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, appealed to the people to make the three-day san...

Banega Swachh India in its third year aims to get the entire nation to come together once again at the Rashtriya Swachhta Diwas with a 12-Hour Cleanathon. A day where we urge all Indians to take up swachhta as their personal responsibility and join our movement. The agenda of the campaign this year is to motivate the masses to clean up India with s...

Only 17 of the 686 districts in the country have become open-defecation free so far, even as the government said rural sanitation programme was picking up under the Swachh Bharat Mission.

The World Bank has approved a near Rs 10,000 crore (USD 1.5 billion) loan for the ambitious clean India campaign to support the government in its efforts to ensure all citizens in rural areas have access to improved sanitation and end the practice of open defecation by 2019.

Union Water Resources Minister Uma Bharati today called for sustained co-operation from the Human Resource Development Ministry for ensuring successful implementation of the 'Namami Gange' programme, by intervening in areas like rural sanitation and adult education on environment.

The country's sanitation programmes have failed to achieve the desired targets largely due to planning level weaknesses even as large-scale diversions, wastages and irregularities were detected, the Comptroller and Auditor General said today.

In the words of an expert, Prof. Dean Spears, "Modi's Swachch Bharat Abhiyan is essentially the Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan of the previous government and the Total Sanitation Programme with a new name".

Odisha has asked its district collectors to complete the construction of new toilets and operationalise all old toilets under school sanitation programme by July 31, said an official today.

Social media chatter has been picking up steadily since morning today when India's massive vaccination programme against COVID-19 started with a sanitation worker getting the first shot of the two-dose vaccine. The country is prioritising nurses, doctors and other frontline medical staff since they run the highest risk of getting infected.

IIT Kharagpur said that it has planned to deploy the vehicle on campus as the administration expects to face a shortage of sanitation staff even after lockdown opens.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will pay homage to Mahatma Gandhi on his 149th birth anniversary today and attend programmes related to sanitation and renewable energy. The emphasis will be on the 'Swachhata Hi Seva' mission as the day marks the beginning of the 150th year of Mahatma Gandhi's birth.

The annual report is produced by the World Health Organization/UN Children's Fund Joint Monitoring Programme, or JMP, which has been monitoring global progress on drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) since 1990.

About 30 per cent increase in upstream tree cover in rural watersheds could have a comparable effect to improved water sanitation, such as the addition of indoor plumbing or toilets.

NDTV-Dettol Banega Swachh India is a five-year 360-degree campaign aimed at spreading awareness about sanitation, empowering citizens with better hygiene and sanitation facilities across the country.

To make the open defecation free campaign successful and create awareness about sanitation in the deistrict, the Zila Swachchhata Samiti (district committee for sanitation) has started a programme "Anokhi Amethi Ka Anokha Bhai".

With various types of fevers affecting over two lakh people across Kerala and leaving more than 100 dead, an all-party meet today appealed to the public to join the government's massive cleaning programme to check further spread of the disease. The meeting, chaired by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, appealed to the people to make the three-day san...

Banega Swachh India in its third year aims to get the entire nation to come together once again at the Rashtriya Swachhta Diwas with a 12-Hour Cleanathon. A day where we urge all Indians to take up swachhta as their personal responsibility and join our movement. The agenda of the campaign this year is to motivate the masses to clean up India with s...

Only 17 of the 686 districts in the country have become open-defecation free so far, even as the government said rural sanitation programme was picking up under the Swachh Bharat Mission.

The World Bank has approved a near Rs 10,000 crore (USD 1.5 billion) loan for the ambitious clean India campaign to support the government in its efforts to ensure all citizens in rural areas have access to improved sanitation and end the practice of open defecation by 2019.

Union Water Resources Minister Uma Bharati today called for sustained co-operation from the Human Resource Development Ministry for ensuring successful implementation of the 'Namami Gange' programme, by intervening in areas like rural sanitation and adult education on environment.

The country's sanitation programmes have failed to achieve the desired targets largely due to planning level weaknesses even as large-scale diversions, wastages and irregularities were detected, the Comptroller and Auditor General said today.

In the words of an expert, Prof. Dean Spears, "Modi's Swachch Bharat Abhiyan is essentially the Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan of the previous government and the Total Sanitation Programme with a new name".

Odisha has asked its district collectors to complete the construction of new toilets and operationalise all old toilets under school sanitation programme by July 31, said an official today.