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Rural tap water coverage reaches nearly 82 pc under Jal Jeevan Mission, claims government documentIndia has achieved remarkable progress in providing tap water to rural households, claims government. The Jal Jeevan Mission has connected ...
"Modi Govt putting integrity of Census at risk": AIMIM chief Asaduddin OwaisiIn a post shared on X, Owaisi said, " lies, damned lies, and statistics. Census data is essential for delimitation, development schemes, an...
How Toyota's CSR initiative taught rural Karnataka hygiene habitsToyota Kirloskar Motor's ABCD program transformed rural Indian schools by tackling hygiene beliefs. Children became agents of change, promo...
'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...
94 local bodies stand in the way of Open Defecation Free IndiaOf the 4,378 urban local bodies, 4,284 have been declared and certified as open defecation free.
Mamata Banerjee declares rural Bengal open defecation freeAround 1.35 crore households in rural Bengal have been covered by the 'Mission Nirmal Bangla', which aimed at making all villages open defe...
Jharkhand to be open defecation free by 2018: Raghubar DasStating that the state is rich but the people are poor, the chief minister said that the government was making efforts to develop basic ame...
2 lakh villages declared open-defecation freeWhile for rural areas the next challenge is to deal with the liquid waste generated, the situation across cities and towns seems to be gett...
Over 100 districts have become open defecation free: PM Narendra ModiThere are three ODF states, 101 such districts and 1,67,226 such villages in the country.
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.
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
Kerala becomes open defection free stateThe announcement was made on the state's foundation day today. Earlier, Himachal Pradesh and Sikkim had declared themselves Open Defecation...
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...
110 villages in Chhattisgarh declared 'open defecation free'The Union Minister added that Centre will allocate a sum of Rs 2 lakh crore to each gram panchayats over the next five years for various de...
Swachh Maharashtra Mission: 19 cities become free of open defecationNineteen cities in the state have achieved the status of being free of open defecation under the government's 'Swachh Maharashtra Mission'.
India has made 'moderate' progress in reducing open defecation rates: UNIn India's case, there has been a reduction by 31 per cent in open defecation, a progress termed as "moderate" by the report.
India has highest number of people practising open defecationUNICEF said the call to end the practice of open defecation is being made with growing insistence as the links with childhood stunting beco...
Bihar sets 2019 as target to free state of open defecationThe Bihar government today admitted it has fallen way behind its target of constructing toilets and said a roadmap was being prepared to ma...
- Left Parties should focus on open-defecation: Amartya Sen
Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen today urged Left parties to fight for eradication of the practice of open defecation and open toilets, in additi...
India will get rid of open defecation in 10 years, says Jairam RameshJairam Ramesh today launched the 'Nirmal Bharat Yatra' to make the country free from open defecation, in Sewagaram Ashram.