Dams/ Irrigation

Cabinet amends law to check canal water theft

In a bid to check the theft of canal water, the Punjab Cabinet today approved amendments to Section 70 of the Northern India Canal and Drainage Act, 1873, to make it far more stringent and punitive

Publication Date: 
24/04/2012
Tribune (New Delhi)
Tags:
Canal Irrigation, Punjab, Water Supply, Rural Sanitation, Jalandhar (D), NGO
Sanitation

Sanitation scheme in utter disarray

An important scheme to improve the health and lifestyle of residents in rural pockets around Tambaram and also to improve access to proper sanitation is in disarray owing to neglect on the part of State government agencies.

The Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) of the Ministry of Rural Development aims at elimination of open defecation in rural areas and ensuring that all households, schools and Children's Centres of Integrated Child Development Services or government-run creches have toilets. The scheme also mandates the construction of at least one integrated sanitary complex in every rural local body.

Publication Date: 
23/04/2012
K. Manikandan
Hindu (Chennai)
Tags:
Chennai (D), Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan (Total Sanitation Campaign), Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), Panchayats, Rural Sanitation, Health, Sanitation, Tamil Nadu
Sanitation

Jairam to rope in ASHAs for constructing toilets

Having kicked up a controversy by saying women in villages demand mobile phones and not toilets, Minister for Rural Development Jairam Ramesh on Monday announced that his ministry has decided to us

Publication Date: 
17/04/2012
Indian Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Ministry Of Rural Development, Toilets, Sanitation, Women, National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), Telecommunication, Rural Sanitation
Sanitation

The economic impacts of inadequate sanitation in Pakistan: an overview

The Water and Sanitation Program undertook this study to conduct evidence based research to help advocacy in the sanitation sector. The study aims to empirically estimate the economic impacts of current poor sanitation conditions in Pakistan as well as the economic benefits of options for improved conditions.

Publication Date: 
01/04/2012
Water and Sanitation Program
Tags:
Sanitation, Pakistan, Rural Sanitation, Urban Sanitation, South Asia, Finance, Health Effects
Water Resources

For just a drop of water - Sanskar of sanitation and conservation

India is young and young people don't like to be sermonised. Slogans would not help conserve water. But taking small steps, practising a few things daily, and auditing one's own behaviour will make one more responsive to his/her inner call. Once the call for conservation and hygiene emanates from within, perhaps change will follow inevitably. But the inner call will call for authentic appeal. Mizos can help us.

Publication Date: 
01/03/2012
Anil K Gupta
Governance Now
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Tags:
Water Conservation, Roof Top Water Harvesting, Rural Sanitation, Mizoram, North East, Sustainable Development, Public Participation
Sanitation

Tribal bride protests bad sanitation, gets award

BHOPAL/ BETUL: A tribal woman from Madhya Pradesh's Betul district, who ran away from her husband's house barely two days after her marriage over lack of sanitary facilities, has become a brand amb

Publication Date: 
18/02/2012
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Awards, Tribals, Rural Sanitation, Toilets, Betul (T), Madhya Pradesh, Sulabh International, Women
Sanitation

Indian woman rewarded for tough ‘toilet’ stand

An Indian woman has been rewarded for her ‘bold’ decision to leave her marital home within days of the wedding to protest the lack of a toilet in the household, an official said on Thursday.

Publication Date: 
17/02/2012
New Age (Bangladesh)
Tags:
India, Women, Toilets, Sanitation, Sulabh International, Madhya Pradesh, Rural Sanitation
Economy

Ramesh chants rural development mantra

2200 gaon panchayats in Assam to be developed as ‘Nirmal Gaon’ in the next five years

GUWAHATI: While setting the target, Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh told Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi and Panchayat and Rural Development Minister Rakibul Hussain to take steps to develop 2200 gaon panchayats in Assam as ‘Nirmal Gaon’ in the next five years and reiterated that the Central Government would bear all the expenses in that regard.

Publication Date: 
13/02/2012
Sentinel (Guwahati)
Tags:
Ministry Of Rural Development, Panchayats, Rural Sanitation, Drinking Water, National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), Corruption, Development, Asian Development Bank (ADB), Rural Roads, Economy, Assam
Sanitation

Handbook on technical options for on-site sanitation

Provision of adequate sanitation to all communities has been a major challenge in India. This is also due to the fact such communities have full spectrum of variations in sociocultural and economic conditions. It is said that in India near stone -age civilization coexists with atomic –age civilization.

Publication Date: 
01/02/2012
P.K.Jha
Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation
Tags:
Sanitation, India, Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan (Total Sanitation Campaign), Health Effects, Diseases, Environment, Eco Sanitation, Rural Sanitation, Technology
Sanitation

89% schools have separate toilets for girls and boys

JAIPUR: Eighty-nine percent of primary and upper primary schools in the state have separate toilets for both girls and boys while there are only six schools which don't have any toilet facilities a

Publication Date: 
16/01/2012
Times Of India (Jaipur)
Tags:
Supreme Court, Toilets, Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan (Total Sanitation Campaign), Rural Sanitation, Sanitation, Rajasthan

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