Sanitation
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Budget 2025: Centre allocates Rs 74,226 crore for drinking water and sanitation
India | Feb 01, 2025, 07:06 PM ISTThe allocation marked a substantial rise from the revised estimates of Rs 29,916 crore for 2024-25 for the Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation.
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UN report reveals 26% of world population lacks clean drinking water, 46% sanitation
World | Mar 22, 2023, 12:48 PM ISTThe report gives a clear picture that the gap needs to be filled to meet UN goals to ensure all people have access to clean water and sanitation by 2030.
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Uttarakhand government hikes honorarium of sanitation workers to Rs 500 per day
India | Apr 03, 2022, 12:36 PM ISTOn Jan 5, Dhami had announced that the honorarium of sanitation workers will be raised from the existing Rs 350 per day to Rs 500 per day. Dhami also assured solving other problems of the sanitation workers.
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UN Chief Antonio Guterres urges countries to keep promise to deliver health, sanitation to all
World | Nov 20, 2021, 09:18 AM ISTWorld Toilet Day, which falls on Nov 19 annually and has been commemorated since 2013, aims to break taboos and make sanitation for all a global development priority, Xinhua news agency reported.
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Locals hail Jammu Municipal Corporation's door-to-door garbage collection initiative
News | Oct 01, 2020, 06:27 PM ISTIn a bid to improve cleanliness in Jammu, about 150 door-to-door garbage collection vehicles have been assigned with duties.
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Over 2 billion people without proper sanitation at high COVID-19 risk
Health | May 21, 2020, 12:50 PM ISTThe study revealed that in 46 countries, more than half of the people lacked access to soap and clean water.In India, China, Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Bangladesh, Pak
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People felicitate sanitation workers in WB's Asansol to express gratitude
News | Apr 07, 2020, 07:54 AM ISTEver since coronavirus has hit the country, sanitation workers have continued their work with full dedication despite all odds. People in West Bengal's Asansol expressed their gratitude towards sanitation workers.
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Tamil Nadu 100 per cent free of open defecation, reveals data
India | Oct 02, 2019, 06:44 PM ISTTamil Nadu has achieved 100 per cent Open Defecation Free (ODF) status as per data uploaded on the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) website. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on October 2, 2014, had announced the SBM for five years.
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Set up emergency response sanitation unit on lines of fire services: Centre to states
India | Jul 16, 2019, 02:24 PM ISTAimed at preventing sewer deaths in the country, the Centre has asked all states to set up an emergency response sanitation unit (ERSU) on the lines of fire services.
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'Nal se Jal' plan: Water, sanitation may attract Rs 6.3 Lakh crore investment in next 5 years, says report
Business | Jul 14, 2019, 02:22 PM ISTAccording to JM Financial Institutional report, the government's new 'Nal se Jal' scheme, which aims to provide piped water connection to every household by 2024, will likely lead to a massive jump in the investment in water and sanitation.
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Sanitation coverage in rural India reached 92% under Swachh Bharat Mission: Govt
India | Sep 06, 2018, 07:22 PM ISTThe sanitation coverage in rural areas was 39 per cent as on October 2, 2014 when the Swachh Bharat Mission was launched.
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India made rapid progress in increasing access to sanitation in schools: UN report
India | Sep 03, 2018, 10:07 AM ISTWASH in schools programmes provide an entry point for the education, awareness-raising and behaviour change required to achieve the SDG6 target of ending open defecation by 2030, the report said.
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Insanitation costing India over Rs 3.45 lakh crore a year: Unicef official
India | Sep 18, 2017, 09:31 PM ISTA study from the World Bank shows that the total economic impacts of inadequate sanitation in India was amounting to $53.8 billion per year, equivalent of 6.4 % of India's Gross Development Production in the same period.
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Good News: On Raksha Bandhan, men in Amethi offer toilets as gift to sisters
Good News | Aug 17, 2017, 12:02 AM ISTBrothers in Uttar Pradesh's Amethi district offered toilets as gift to their sisters on Raksha Bandha this year.
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Three sanitation workers die of asphyxiation in Delhi's Lajpat Nagar
India | Aug 06, 2017, 08:11 PM ISTThree sanitation workers died allegedly due to asphyxiation while cleaning a drain in southeast Delhi's Lajpat Nagar today.
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AIIMS Delhi hospital wins Rs 5 crore for maintaining sanitation
India | Feb 16, 2017, 10:30 AM ISTMaintaining the high standards of sanitation and hygiene, the premier health institute All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi has won the first prize and a cash reward of Rs 5 crore under
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Delhi stink gets worse; after East, North Delhi's civic employees go on strike
India | Jan 10, 2017, 06:03 PM ISTIn protest against non-payment of salaries, a section of the North Delhi Municipal Corporation (north-MCD) employees today went on strike, an employees union official said. This happened even as East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) employees,
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Woman mortgages 'Mangalsutra' for building toilet at home, becomes ambassador of sanitation programme
India | Jul 18, 2016, 09:42 PM ISTSasaram: In a praiseworthy move, a woman in Barahkhanna village mortgaged her 'Mangalsutra' to construct a toilet in her house. Recognising her effort, the Rohtas district administration made her the brand ambassador of total sanitation
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Sanitation Workers in Delhi Protest Outside Sisodia's Residence
National | Jan 28, 2016, 11:25 AM ISTNEW DELHI: Scores of municipal sanitation workers today staged a protest outside Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia's official residence here, demanding "immediate" release of funds for their salaries.They also threatened to suspend work for an
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Swachh Bharat: World Bank to lend US$1.5 bn to build toilets in India
India | Dec 17, 2015, 07:22 PM ISTNew Delhi: The World Bank has approved a loan of US$1.5 billion to help the government in its efforts to provide toilets in villages as part of the Swachh Bharat (Clean India) programme.The loan, which will