New Delhi: Sanitation programmes launched by the government over the last few years have failed to achieve the desired targets, the Comptroller and Auditor-General (CAG) of India said on Tuesday.A CAG report which was submitted
Gurgaon: Vivek Oberoi dedicates his birthday to a cause every year, and this year it was no different. The actor-philanthropist, who turned 39 on Thursday, announced a sanitation initiative under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Swachh
New Delhi: US Ambassador to India Richard Verma on Thursday said his country is committed to extending its support in initiatives for clean water and sanitation and to help realise India's call. He lauded Sulabh International
New Delhi: In an effort to make AIIMS here more patient-friendly, union health minister J.P. Nadda will on Wednesday inaugurate a campaign that aims at upgrading several areas, including sanitation, digitisation and staff management at
New Delhi: Bringing relief to residents in localities swamped with garbage, the sanitation workers of East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) called off their strike on Friday. The strike came to an end on a day
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on 12th june has directed the city government to release due salaries of the East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) employees by June 15.A division bench of Justice S. Murlidhar
New Delhi: The Lieutenant Governor of Delhi Najeeb Jung today met all the three Mayors and Commissioners of the Municipal Corporations to inform them that the Delhi government would be releasing Rs. 493 Crores today
New Delhi: Garbage continued to pile up in parts of Delhi amid ongoing strike by municipal sanitation workers here, even as a section of them protested in front of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's residence ahead
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Minister Mohd Azam Khan has alleged that the sanitation drive launched by the Central government was only for publicity.“The amount being spent by the central government on sanitation campaign in media since
Meerut: Sanitation workers of Meerut Municipal Corporation, who are on strike since April 16 demanding a hike in honorarium, today threatened to convert if their demands were not met.If the administration tries to create unnecessary
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday directed civic bodies to submit a status report on projects to build proper sanitation facilities in various areas of the capital.A bench of Justice BD Ahmed and
New Delhi: In a village of 1,200 people not having toilets, each inhabitant has to indirectly consume through contaminated food about three grams of each other's faecal matter every day, says a government report.The ‘Elementary
New Delhi: In order to check whether people are using toilets as part of his cleanliness drive Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch a nationwide online programme from next month. Officials-in-charge will use mobiles and
Jaipur: India can replicate Singapore's success story with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Clean India campaign as it will help its people and the country to be more productive, according to noted sanitation activist Jack Sim.Sim
Brisbane: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said India has made its policies transparent and predictable and clearly defined the procedures for businesses. “We have made our policies transparent and predictable. We have made our procedures
Hyderabad: Emphasising that sanitation remain the first challenge for urban administration, President Pranab Mukherjee said clean environment is the ‘right of every citizen' and it should be treated as a ‘non-negotiable requirement'.Speaking at the valedictory
New Delhi: Menstruation is still a taboo in rural India. A menstruating woman in villages, even towns is treated indifferently by the people. Till now, they are told not to sleep on bed; their belongings
New Delhi, Oct 28: Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh, who brought sanitation issue into limelight by launching nationwide campaign to end open defecation—often attracting controversies with his comments including the one on temple and toilets,
New Delhi, Sep 18: “If Uttar Pradesh becomes open defecation-free in 10 years, I can accept that Sai Baba is alive,” Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh on Tuesday said expressing doubts about the state achieving
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