The Swajal projects are aimed at providing clean drinking water for communities in water scarce villages and towns ...
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Drinking Water and Sanitation
Drinking Water and Sanitation
Minister for Drinking Water and Sanitation Narendra Singh Tomar said that the central government has released Rs 800 crore so that community water purification plants could be set up ...
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Union Minister S S Ahluwalia have been visiting the states facing drinking water and sanitation problems and recently visited Odisha also ...
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In the recent cabinet shuffle that took place on September 3, former minister for Ganga Rejuvenation and Water Resources, Uma Bharti was given the Ministry Of Drinking Water and Sanitation ...
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The Central Rural Sanitation Programme was the first nationwide sanitation programme launched to address rural sanitation problems and had a comprehensive plan of bettering the sanitation scenario in rural India ...
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The decade of 1980s can be called the first real game changer for sanitation in India as the government took concrete steps to address toilet construction and community participation in addressing sanitation issues ...
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Nearly 30 years after independence, sanitation once again become a priority for the administration and was identified as a minimum human need, ensuring government focus and slight improvement by the end of the decade ...
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Despite independent India’s economic struggles, the Five Year Plans of the 1950s focused on sanitation and allocated decent amounts for improvement of sanitation, though the policies saw sporadic improvement in few villages and urban towns ...
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Some 3 in 10 people worldwide, or 2.1 billion, lack access to safe, readily available water at home, and 6 in 10, or 4.5 billion, lack safely managed sanitation, according to a new report by WHO and UNICEF ...
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Strong financial and civic performance resulted in good ratings for the Pune Municipal Corporation and gave the civic body enough confidence to issue municipal bonds
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