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  Budget 2025: Centre allocates Rs 74,226 crore for drinking water and sanitation

  India | February 01, 2025 19:06 IST

  The 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 | March 22, 2023 12:48 IST

  The 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 | April 03, 2022 12:36 IST

  On 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 | November 20, 2021 9:18 IST

  World 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 | October 01, 2020 18:27 IST

  In 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 IST

  The 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 | April 07, 2020 7:54 IST

  Ever 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 | October 02, 2019 18:44 IST

  Tamil 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 | July 16, 2019 14:24 IST

  Aimed 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 | July 14, 2019 14:22 IST

  According 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 | September 06, 2018 19:22 IST

  The 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 | September 03, 2018 10:07 IST

  WASH 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 | September 18, 2017 21:31 IST

  A 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 | August 17, 2017 0:02 IST

  Brothers 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 | August 06, 2017 20:11 IST

  Three 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 | February 16, 2017 10:30 IST

  Maintaining 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 | January 10, 2017 18:03 IST

  In 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 | July 18, 2016 21:42 IST

  Sasaram: 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

  Politics | January 28, 2016 11:25 IST

  NEW 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 | December 17, 2015 19:22 IST

  New 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