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'Era of Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao, Beti Badhao': Delhi CM Rekha Gupta backs Nari Shakti Vandan AdhiniyamParliament will convene for a special session to advance the Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam. This move introduces a 33 percent reservation fo...
Congress, TMC members spar in Lok SabhaCongress and TMC members sparred in the LS over holding of regular meetings of a coordination committee on district development in West Ben...
Three years of Swachh India: Rural India numbers showing progressIn three years of Swachh Bharat, rural sanitation coverage has increased to 69% from 39%, more than 230-million people in villages have sto...
India expected to be open defecation free by Oct, 2019: Rajnath SinghThe home minister said for cleanliness, the central government was implementing a Rs 12,000-crore action plan through 76 ministries and dep...
Swachh survekshan 2017: Fewer public dustbins pulls down Bengaluru's rankBengaluru failure to declare itself 'open-defecation free' was another reason for its poor performance in the rankings.
Big B on the line! Soon, you may receive a call from Amitabh Bachchan regarding open defecationThis will be a pilot project of the drinking water and sanitation ministry.
43 per cent of rural population defecate in open: GovernmentAs per a report published in 2015, 59.43 per cent of the world population defecating in the open live in India, Minister of State for Drink...
Centre aims 200 open defecation free districts by November next yearSo far, 61 districts and more than 1,14,332 villages have been declared Open Defecation Free
5 towns in Maharashtra, Telangana declared open defecation freeA total of 141 towns in 7 states have claimed to have become Open Defecation Free including 100 in Maharashtra. These claims are under veri...
$1.5 billion loan from World Bank to be given to states depending on performance in building toiletsThe Centre will kick off the annual National Rural Sanitation Survey from August 15 to measure the performance of states on three indicator...
No more subsidy for constructing toilets in Haryana: GovernmentNavraj Sandhu said efforts will be made to change the mindset of the people so that they could feel the need to have a toilet in their hous...
1000 toilets to be installed in slums around railway stationsContinuing with the Swachh Bharat drive, Union Urban Development Ministry has taken initiative to install 1000 toilets in the market places.
Under new initiative, government to honour 100 swachh achieversThese achievers will be special invitees at Republic Day celebrations in 2016 and will get to meet PM Modi, officials said.
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...
Realtime monitoring system of toilets to be launched tomorrowA nationwide "realtime monitoring" system of toilets constructed under Swachh Bharat Abhiyan will be launched tomorrow, government today sa...
Women relieving themselves in open face risk of rape: Government"There is an immediate need to provide adequate number of toilets separately for boys and girls in all schools of the country," says govt
Narendra Modi's dream project 'Swach Bharat' impossible by 2019Modi's dream project of creating a ‘Swach Bharat' by 2019 is a distant dream, say govt officials who have been working to create road map f...
Focus on making India open defecation free, not Congress free: Jairam Ramesh to Narendra Modi'India won't progress by making it Congress-free but it will progress a lot if we get rid of open defecation," Jairam Ramesh said.
Jairam Ramesh wants all trains to be fitted with bio-toiletsJairam Ramesh today offered that his Ministry would bear half the cost of retrofitting eco-friendly bio-toilets in all 50000 coaches in fiv...
- India to be open-defecation free in ten years: Ramesh
Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh today said India has embarked on a ten-year mission to make India an open-defecation free co...