Five districts of Garo hills today pledged to ensure an aggressive approach towards meeting the mandate of Nirmal (Clean) Meghalaya by 2017.

The deputy commissioners of the five districts gave presentations at the two day consultative workshop on “Nirmal Meghalaya” highlighting the substantial gains, which have been made to increase improvement in sanitation.

Meghalaya, which is still facing the problem of open defecation, has set a target for nirmal (clean) state for the year 2014-15.

Three projects have received funding support from the Sanitation Financing Partnership Trust Fund, created last year by the Asian Development Bank, in recognition that complex urban and coastal env

The change in mindset of rural people alone will bring about a change in society and yield desirable results in total sanitation programme, according to Collector N. Venkatachalam.

In a country ranked poorly on the health and environment front, Sikkim has done remarkably well to become India’s first State with 100 per cent sanitation coverage, according to a report of the dri

Gandhigram Trust has motivated people to avoid open defecation

The Gandhigram Trust has adopted three blocks – Batlgundu, Nilakottai and Athoor – in the district for ensuring total rural sanitation with community participation.

ALLAHABAD: A five-day training programme titled Rural Sanitation Technology and Wastewater Management was inaugurated at seminar Hall situated at Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, (MN