While launching the Phase-II of Swachh Bharat Mission (Grameen), Union Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat said that this phase will ensure that effective solid and liquid waste management is instituted in every gram panchayat of the country ...
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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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Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUSIB) built approximately 19,000 community toilets throughout Delhi in the past four years, and yet most of the people living in slums visited by NDTV's Banega Swasth India team, choose to defecate in the open, here’s a ground report ...
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Pink toilets are more than just about the shade of the paint on these toilets. Meant for only women, these toilets do more than provide privacy to women. Here’s an on-ground report of some pink toilets in Delhi ...
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How is Delhi faring on the sanitation front now that the open defecation free (ODF) deadline set under the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan is done and dusted? ...
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In a city of over 20 million population, access to toilets remains an issue in the city of Delhi. Despite constructing dozens of public toilets, the on ground reality remains questionable as citizens continue to be hesitant to use them blaming it on their condition. Here is NDTV’s on ground report on the condition of public toilets in the city ...
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24-year-old sanitation worker, Ravi died when he along with another 35-year-old sanitation worker entered a sewer in CBD ground in Delhi’s Karkadooma to clean it ...
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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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Through his lens CS Sharada Prasad, an engineer turned into social scientist researching on sanitation access in low and middle-income countries, has dived into the world of sanitation workers ...
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Handwashing Day 2019: While almost all households in India (as high as 97% according to National Family Health Survey 4 – 2015-16) have washbasins, only richer and more educated households in urban areas use soap to wash hands ...
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As per the Madhya Pradesh government scheme, brides belonging to economically backward sections of the state are eligible to receive Rs 51,000, if they prove that their groom's house has a toilet before the wedding by clicking a selfie of the groom while standing in the toilet in his residence ...
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