As the rather unprecedented year comes to an end, here are some of the important lessons about health and sanitation that were learnt and must be taken along in 2021 and beyond ...
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As part of its water supply and sanitation initiative, Dehradun based NGO Himmotthan Society is helping people living rural areas of Uttarakhand get access to drinking water and basic hygiene care ...
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Experts recommend that in order to contain the ongoing pandemic and prevent the future ones, it is important to strengthen people’s access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in the country ...
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Resonating with this year’s theme of ‘Sustainable Sanitation and Climate Change’, politicians, celebrities, organisations and other netizens took to social media on the occasion of World Toilet Day to urge people to adopt good sanitation and toilet habits ...
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Vimarsh Aryan, First Secretary, India's permanent mission to United Nation's Office at Geneva (UNOG), at the 45th Session of the Human Rights Council Speaking said that the fulfilment of the human rights to water and sanitation cannot be accomplished in a short time frame and is often dependent on the availability and use of resources ...
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According to Pratap Jena, Minister for Housing and Urban Development, the newly launched scheme GARIMA will provide social security and financial benefits to sanitation workers and their families ...
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Actor Anushka Sharma has come forward to raise awareness on the need to maintain hygiene and sanitation at a time of coronavirus pandemic in the country ...
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A lookback at the rural sanitation journey and how Swades Foundation constructed over 20,000 toilets benefiting over a 1,00,000 people through the years ...
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The TwoBinsLifeWins campaign is a part of Tata Trusts’ Mission Garima which urges citizens to segregate waste at the source, to make the lives of the sanitation workers better, more dignified ...
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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitaraman announced her second Union Budget on February 1, with an allocation of Rs. 12,300 crores for the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan which is down from last year ...
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While Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman stressed on the need for waste management in last year’s budget, experts talk about the on-ground reality and their expectation from budget 2020
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2019 was the big deadline India set itself for going 100 per cent open defecation free (ODF) under the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, with over 10 crore toilet construction rural India was declared ODF while over 94 per cent of the urban local bodies (ULBs) are ODF ...
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