GUWAHATI

President Pratibha Devisingh Patil here on Monday called for sustainable village development and solid waste management. She blamed the low sanitation facilities responsible for the large number of school dropouts in rural India.

The Union Rural Development Minister Dr Raghuvansh Prasad Singh, on Sunday, said that one of the main aims of the government would be to put North East on the fast track for achieving total sanitation.

The Union Minister further divulged that Sikkim is likely to become the first State to receive the Nirmal Rajya Award for 100 per cent sanitation coverage.

Asserting that the Total Sanitation Campaign was becoming a people

Sikkim to become first state with total sanitation coverage
Guwahati, Oct 20: The tiny Himalayan State of Sikkim is all poised to win the prestigious

GUWAHATI, Oct 20: President Pratibha Devisingh Patil today gave a clarion call to implement the

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HISSAR: President Pratibha Patil on Friday issued a clarion call for implementing the

BHUBANESWAR: Yesterday's pledge by hundreds of students on Global Hand-washing Day (GHD) at Janla Nodal UP School might be just another event for many.

But the school certainly has become a role model to spread the message of total sanitation.

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Creating awareness: C.K. Veeranan, Project Officer, Krishnagiri District Rural Development Agency, showing pamphlets explaining the conditions of National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme

Jamshedpur, Oct. 12: People of East Singhbhum district are a proud lot.

For the second consecutive year the district has bagged the Nirmal Gram Award for successful implementation of Total Sanitation Campaign.

Successfully adhering to basic sanitation and cleanliness guidelines of the government, 13 panchayats of East Singhbhum district have received this award.