In a bid to make Indore single-use plastic-free, the Municipal Corporation of Indore is bringing back ‘lotas’ and metal utensils in government offices and is setting up ‘Bartan Banks’ from where the citizens can borrow reusable utensils to serve food at parties and return later ...
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Swachh Bharat Mission
Swachh Bharat Mission
While addressing a gathering at Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences President Ram Nath Kovind said that lack of access to health services, malnutrition and neglected tropical diseases act as constraints to the development of the nation ...
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Swachh Survekshan Grameen 2019: Union Government To Evaluate Status Of Sanitation In 17,000 Villages
Through the 'Swachh Survekshan Grameen 2019’, the central government aims to reach out to as many as three crore people to assess sanitation, waste management, pollution from plastic waste, and faecal sludge management ...
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During the launch the Swachh Sarvekshan 2020, the fifth edition of the annual cleanliness survey to rate the cities, Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said the country is on track to achieve 100 per cent open defecation free status in the country by October 2 this year ...
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Addressing the Lok Sabha in the Parliament House, Speaker Om Birla asked the Members of Parliament to work towards the fulfillment of Mahatma Gandhi's vision by taking his message of cleanliness to each citizen of the country for a healthy future ...
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Replying to a question in Rajya Sabha, Jal Shakti minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat said that the government does not promote a particular technology and so states and Union Territories can choose appropriate toilet technology for safe disposal of human excreta ...
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According to the Economic Survey 2018-19, 30 States and Union Territories have been 100 per cent covered with individual household latrine and 5.64 lakh villages have been declared open defecation free ...
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In a bid to make the Garhwal region of Uttarakhand clean and green, the tourism department of Uttarakhand has launched ‘Swachh Bharat Swachh Garhwal’, a cleanliness drive and ‘Smriti van’, a tree-plantation campaign during the ‘Char Dham Yatra’ of 2019 ...
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The study conducted by UNICEF found that government initiatives like Swachh Bharat Mission that focus on improving hygiene practices, as well as generate awareness around safe sanitation practices can help reduce the risk of contamination ...
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"When I looked into the septic tank, I saw that all the five persons were lying there. I started shouting, but nobody came to rescue," wife of one of the victims said ...
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As per an RTI response from the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, as many as 3,409 wards in Andhra Pradesh and 10,831 wards in Uttar Pradesh are implementing the practice of door-to-door garbage collection under the Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban) ...
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Mahesh Kumar from Ahmedabad had to pay a fine for violating public health laws, after he was caught spitting tobacco in a CCTV camera ...
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