Having achieved the milestone of an ODF India in a time bound manner during the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM(G)) Phase I, efforts on access to improved sanitation for all and behaviour change communication
As many as 13 panchayat presidents from Vellore district received the ‘Nirmal Gram Puraskar’ award. The award is given by President of India to the presidents of panchayats that did well in maintaining hygiene in their respective villages by operating women sanitary complexes well, preventing open area defecation, maintaining school hygiene etc.
The state government would organise street plays and musical skits to spread awareness against open defecation and to encourage ruralfolk to construct toilets in their homes. On Thursday, panchayati
Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Minister H K Patil on Friday said six lakh community toilets would be constructed in rural areas during the current financial year. Patil told mediapersons here that
The Centre has approved the state government’s Rs 10,392-crore plan for implementation of sanitation and waste management projects in rural areas. The plan will be implemented in 27,902 villages across
Nearly 73 per cent households in rural India practice open defecation despite sanitation drives launched by the government, according to an independent evaluation by the Planning Commission. The study
Most people living in rural Indian villages defecate openly outside, without using a toilet or latrine. In 2004, as a supplement to its ongoing Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC), the government of Maharashtra
Toilets are yet to be considered an integral part of houses in rural areas of Namakkal Superstitious beliefs, religious sentiments and vasthu shastra are making construction of toilets in rural areas of Namakkal district in Tamil Nadu an uphill task. P. Aruna (32) and her husband Periyasamy (45), a truck driver of Parali panchayat, stopped constructing a toilet and filled up the leach pit with debris. “An astrologer came to our house and told us that we should not dig any pit or else our five-year-old boy will have a bad time,” the couple said.
This is the latest publication by the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation. The report details global progress towards the MDG target for drinking water and sanitation,
As part of a programme being implemented by the Aruvankadu-based non governmental organisation, the Rural Development Organisation (RDO), to enhance awareness about the benefits of individual toilets among people in the rural parts of The Nilgiris district, a book titled ‘A Revolution in Sanitation in The Nilgiris’ was released here on Monday. Participating as the chief guest, Marie Larose, director, Recruitment and Awards, York University, Canada, released the book.
It may be hard to believe, but it is true. Anyone travelling the length of the rural belt of Delhi that stretches from Badarpur border in South-East Delhi all the way to Narela in the northern periphery of the city, will not find a public toilet along the way. The reason being: all these years no one constructed any. And while many believe the rural population knows best how to use the fields and forests for answering the call of nature, such an approach has not helped the cause of rural women, for whom not a single public toilet exists.
