75 per cent Indian villages declared ODF Plus: Jal Shakti ministerAccording to Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, 75% of India's villages, approximately 4.4 lakh, have achieved the "ODF Plus" st...
Over 1.8 lakh villages ODF+, govt hoping to double it this year: Official"As we move forward on all these issues, the need for convergence between various sources of funds, especially MGNREGA, Fifteenth Finance C...
West Bengal may get ODF tag in November, a year later than the rest of urban IndiaAbout 45 urban local bodies of the state had been standing in the way of urban India being ODF. Despite repeated reminders by the ministry ...
Rural India achieved 100 pc ODF status: GovtThe Centre launched Swachh Bharat Mission(Grameen on October 2, 2014 with the aim to attain Open Defecation Free (ODF) India by October 2, ...
December 31 set as new deadline for urban India to get ODF statusOn October 2, PM Modi had declared rural India Open Defecation Free (ODF). However, 40 urban local bodies of West Bengal are standing in th...
Urban India to be declared open defecation free tomorrowSpeaking to ET, Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban) director VK Jindal said, “West Bengal has not participated in Swachh Bharat Mission. We have ...
‘Non-ODF areas 13 times more prone to ground water pollution’Villages where people still defecate in open face nearly 13 times higher risk of faecal contamination of ground water as compared to open d...
11 states are now open defecation free: GovernmentThe government is taking various steps under the SBM to make all states in the country ODF, the minister of state in the Ministry of Drinki...
IT capital gets that stinking feeling as it slips in SBM rankEven after three years of the launch of Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM), not a single municipal ward in Bengaluru has been declared open defeca...
All eyes on Bihar as other laggard, UP promises to go swachh by 2018Bihar’s ODF coverage as on date is just 29%, up marginally from 22% on October 2, 2014 when the programme began with a 5-year deadline and ...
75% villages along banks of Ganga are open defecation-free: PM ModiModi said since the government launched the Swachh Bharat Mission in October 2014, over 1,80,000 villages across 130 districts have been de...
Uttarakhand, Gujarat and Haryana in race to join Swachh ClubSix districts out of 33 and all 170 towns of Gujarat have gone ODF while five out of the 21 districts in Haryana have turned ODF as on date.
Modi government infuses fresh urgency into implementation of Swachh Bharat Rural schemeBarely 11% of India's 6.38 lakh villages have turned open defecation free, with only 17 of the 683 districts declared ODF 22 months after t...
Union government has given uniform definition given to Open Defecation FreeThe Union Government, which is running a high voltage campaign to free the country from open defecation, has now given a uniform definition...
Mamata, UNICEF push defecation inside Nadia homesWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today declared Nadia as the first Open Defecation Free (ODF) district in the country.
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