सिर्फ एसटीपी की जांच के लिए चार हफ्ते खुला रहेगा हज हाउस

उत्तर प्रदेश प्रदूषण नियंत्रण बोर्ड की ओर से जांच रिपोर्ट के बाद ही यह तय होगा कि हज हाउस का ताला खुलेगा या नहीं।

भोपाल का कचरा लील रहा है अर्जुन नगर गांव को

अब तक गांव विकास योजनाओं या बड़े बांधों के निर्माण के कारण उजड़ते थे लेकिन अब गांवों के उजाड़ने का कारण शहरी कचरा बनता ...

Govt launches new framework to sustain India’s ‘100% ODF status’

The Centre will proclaim India to be 100% ODF on October 2 and the new framework envisages its strategy to maintain that status

What’s holding back India’s complete ODF status?

A few laggard states needing appropriate technology and behavioural intervention are the final hurdle in order to achieve 100% household coverage …

No more N-I-M-B-Y

Our excessive reliance on 'others' to manage 'our' waste has let the situation go out of hand

Access to safe water, sanitation has improved, says WHO-UNICEF report

Some 2.5 billion people still use unimproved sanitation facilities; can the world achieve MDG target by 2015?

Filthy art

Exhibition>> Dirt • The UK

DD social service ads preach, but rarely convert

How does public interest advertising work on Doordarshan? Even more to the point, does it work at all?

TIMELY GIFT

Keeping track

Following up on sustainable development summits

Simple, bare necessities

To what extent are basic household amenities available to India's people?

Global aid on sanitation is southward bound

Our country, our mess

How's India doing in providing basic social services?

Managing water locally - a good model

In the Water and Sanitation Project implemented by the Tamil Nadu government with assistance from the Danish International Development Assistance,…

Over 300 million Indians still defecate in the open: WHO-UNICEF report

Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan do much better in improving access to sanitation

World Toilet Day: India now aims to build one toilet every two seconds

The country needs to play a major role in reducing open defecation

Centre launches bio-toilets to curb open defecation

Around 100,000 toilets to be built in next two years in 300 gram panchayats

Swachh Survekshan 2020: Indore is the cleanest city 4th time in a row

Surat in Gujarat and Navi Mumbai in Maharashtra ranked second and third among the cleanest cities with more than a million population  &…

उत्तर प्रदेश में मिशन पूरा पर परिवार से अलग युवाओं के घर में नहीं हैं शौचालय

अब नहीं होना होगा शर्मसार, खुले में शौच से मिली मुक्ति-3 : डाउन टू अर्थ ने स्वच्छ भारत मिशन की सफलता की पड़ताल के ...

बन गए 5 साल में 10 करोड़ शौचालय, लेकिन...

अब नहीं होना होगा शर्मसार, खुले में शौच से मिली मुक्ति-2: सवाल यह है कि क्या शौचालयों का निर्माण करते वक्त ऐसी तकनीक अपनाई ...

Swachh Bharat Mission: Nilgiris sets example of community effort

More than 100,000 tribals, dalits and women raised a loan of Rs 20 crore to build toilets, after the incentive of Rs 12,000 per household was …

Despite toilets in place, a quarter of rural population stuck to open defecation

New study on changes in open defecation in rural North India says pace of toilet construction increased under Swachh Bharat Mission, but there …

When Indian women negotiate with local authorities to improve their lives in a slum

Women in a settlement in the north-eastern peri-urban part of Indore learnt that gentle, perseverant negotiation was the best way forward

Dirty air and water increase cradle deaths in India

While absolute level of pollution increases risk, vulnerability is enhanced due to resource poverty

Water stress to increase, but so will water-related jobs, says UN report

According to the report, the lack of sufficiently skilled labour in water and sanitation has contributed to the estimated leakage of 30 per cent …