Mangaloreans have a reason to cheer for it has bagged the 8th place on the clenliness index in India.

Out of the total 423 cities including 24 from Karnataka where the survey was conducted, Mysore has bagged the 2nd place while Bangalore has been pushed to 12th place. The other cities which find a place within 50 include Mandya (15), Bidar (22) and Udupi (43).

New Delhi: They may not have the glamourous tag but when it comes to cleanliness and sanitation, smaller cities like Chandigarh, Mysore, Surat, Tiruchirapalli and Jamshedpur have beaten the metros in the sanitation ratings released by the Union urban development ministry on Monday.

NDMC, Delhi Cantt Find Place In Centre

The ratings exer cise for cleanliness, curb on open defecation, provision of clean drinking water and waste disposal, carried out by the ministry of urban development, has revealed that none of the 423 Classcities in the country could qualify for the "green" category, which was the best cat egory, and only four cities could make it to the nex best "blue" category.

PRASHANT PANDEY
NEW DELHI

The capital has scored poorly on the sanitation and waste management in the ratings of the union urban development. Though two of Its urban local bodies figured among the top five, the third and the biggest urban local body, the MCD, figured very poorly on the ratings.

Union human resource development (HRD) minister Kapil Sibal on Tuesday announced that health and wellness clubs will be set up in all the schools of the Central Board of Secondary Education as part of the

Actor Aamir Khan was on Tuesday declared the brand ambassador for the National School Sanitation Initiative launched jointly by the Human resource Development Ministry (HRD) and the Urban Development Ministry (UDM).

Ahmedabad: Pleased with the progress Jnnurm projects have made in Gujarat, Union urban development secretary M Ramchandran said the state was ahead in terms of certain key reforms and some cities have met their deadlines for projects.
Ramchandran was in Ahmedabad on Monday to review the progress of JnNURM projects and had convened meetings with officials of Rajasthan and Goa.

The Ministry of Railways is planning a special scheme to improve connectivity in far flung areas of the country. Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee said here on Thursday that she would soon write to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to launch Pradhan Mantri Gram Rail Yojana. This would be on the lines of the existing Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana.