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Decent living conditions remain a mirage for residents of Thiruvathavur refugee camp
1 day, 4 hours ago

Decent living conditions remain a mirage for residents of Thiruvathavur refugee camp

The Hindu  

Despite Madurai district having been declared open defecation-free in 2017, the conditions inside the Sri Lankan refugee camp at Thiruvathavur in Melur taluk look otherwise, says an activist. Though a large number of people, 555 families - 943 men, 800 women and 289 children - reside there, toilet facilities for this many are very poor in the camp, says A. …

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Kisan Diwas 2024: PM Kisan Yojana to Krishi Vikas Plan, check key govt schemes for farmers
2 weeks, 3 days ago

Kisan Diwas 2024: PM Kisan Yojana to Krishi Vikas Plan, check key govt schemes for farmers

India TV News  

New Delhi: Kisan Diwas or the National Farmers' Day is observed on December 23 to commemorate the birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Chaudhary Charan Singh. Take a look at some of the key government schemes for farmers: PM Kisan Samman Yojana The PM Kisan Samman Yojana is a central scheme launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modion February 24, 2019. …

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Over 90% villages in Punjab, three other states achieved ODF Plus status: Centre
4 weeks, 2 days ago

Over 90% villages in Punjab, three other states achieved ODF Plus status: Centre

Hindustan Times  

Over 90% of villages in Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar have achieved Open Defecation Free Plus status, the Jal Shakti ministry said on Tuesday. Open Defecation Free Plus is an advanced sanitation benchmark under the Swachh Bharat Mission, aimed at sustaining and enhancing the outcomes of ODF status.While the ODF status is achieved when a community eliminates open …

Waste Management Uttar Pradesh Management Mission Sanitation Status Punjab
Transforming Rural India: A Decade of the Swachh Bharat Mission
3 months, 1 week ago

Transforming Rural India: A Decade of the Swachh Bharat Mission

Hindustan Times  

A decade of the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) has yielded unprecedented gains in India, with the country achieving a significant milestone of 100% rural sanitation coverage. The mission, launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2014, has transformed India's sanitation landscape, leading to a significant reduction in open defecation and improved public health. The SBM has also had a positive …

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Revolutionising rural sanitation: India's Swachh Bharat Mission Grameen
1 year ago

Revolutionising rural sanitation: India's Swachh Bharat Mission Grameen

Hindustan Times  

India's sanitation landscape is undergoing a transformative change, with the Swachh Bharat Mission Grameen Phase II marking a remarkable achievement: five lakh+ villages have been declared Open Defecation Free Plus. The key to the success of Swachh Bharat Mission Grameen Phase I was an effective communication strategy that included mass awareness campaigns, behaviour change communication, and the formation of local …

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Embracing Incremental Steps for Monumental Sanitation Reforms
1 year, 1 month ago

Embracing Incremental Steps for Monumental Sanitation Reforms

News 18  

To understand the role of sanitation on our behavior and lives, it is pertinent to know about the broken window theory. The Bharat story, it’s tryst with building a movement around sanitation through Swachh Bharat Abhiyan stems out as a tale of triumph in the war field of mind and habits. The Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, initiated by our Honorable Prime …

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'Cleanliness movement has become people's movement', says Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri
1 year, 1 month ago

'Cleanliness movement has become people's movement', says Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri

India TV News  

Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Friday said that the cleanliness movement has brought revolutionary changes and become a people's movement. Speaking on World Toilet Day, he said, "Today as we observe World Toilet Day, we have over 63 lakh Individual and over 6 lakh Community and Public Toilets and urinals for citizens across Urban India. The total investments for …

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From Open Defecation to ODF Plus: Swachh Bharat Mission's Remarkable Journey Towards Total Cleanliness
1 year, 3 months ago

From Open Defecation to ODF Plus: Swachh Bharat Mission's Remarkable Journey Towards Total Cleanliness

News 18  

The Uttar Pradesh government, during the second phase of the Swachh Bharat Mission, proudly announced that all of its 95,767 villages had attained the ODF Plus status, marking a remarkable 100 per cent success rate for the state. Over 4.43 lakh villages, which is 75 per cent of all Indian villages, have voluntarily proclaimed their ODF Plus status, marking a …

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Swachh Bharat Mission: Uttar Pradesh villages declare themselves open defecation free plus
1 year, 3 months ago

Swachh Bharat Mission: Uttar Pradesh villages declare themselves open defecation free plus

The Hindu  

Uttar Pradesh has become the latest state to declare itself Open Defecation Free Plus joining a league of 10 other States that have achieved a similar status. An ODF+ model village is one which is sustaining its ODF status and has arrangements for both solid waste management and liquid waste management; and observes visual cleanliness, i.e., minimal litter, minimal stagnant …

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Chhattisgarh Assembly Elections 2023: CM Baghel questions Open Defecation Free status in letter to PM Modi
1 year, 4 months ago

Chhattisgarh Assembly Elections 2023: CM Baghel questions Open Defecation Free status in letter to PM Modi

India TV News  

Ahead of the assembly elections, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, questioning the state's Open defecation-free status. In his letter, Baghel said that there are still many villages in the state that do not have toilets and that the government's claims of ODF status are misleading. He also said that the government's survey methodology …

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Tamil Nadu NEET UG Counselling 2023: First Seat Allotment Result Released On tnmedicalselection.net
1 year, 5 months ago

Tamil Nadu NEET UG Counselling 2023: First Seat Allotment Result Released On tnmedicalselection.net

ABP News  

The Directorate of Medical Education and Research, Tamil Nadu, has released the first merit list of the Tamil Nadu NEET UG Counselling 2023 Round-1. Candidates who registered for the Tamil Nadu NEET UG Counselling 2023 can check and download the seat allotment result from the official website - tnmedicalselection.net. Earlier this month, the DMER Tamil Nadu invited online applications from …

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Linear regression: The Hindu Editorial on the government’s response to data on its policies
1 year, 5 months ago

Linear regression: The Hindu Editorial on the government’s response to data on its policies

The Hindu  

Even as the Union government suggests that there were prima facie reasons for the suspension of the Director of the International Institute for Population Sciences, K.S. Other surveys, i.e., the National Statistical Office survey from October 2018, the National Annual Rural Sanitation Survey of 2019-20 and the Multiple Indicator Survey released earlier this year, also indicated that many villages were …

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AP districts top Jal Jeevan Mission
1 year, 7 months ago

AP districts top Jal Jeevan Mission

Deccan Chronicle  

VIJAYAWADA: The YSR Kadapa and Visakhapatnam districts have won top ranks at national-level in implementation of the Jal Jeevan Mission – vis-a-vis the ‘best performing’ and ‘fastest moving’ categories. “The drinking water and sanitation department runs two major programmes to meet the drinking water and sanitation needs of the country – namely, the Swachh Bharat Mission- Gramin and the Jal …

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Top-notch ‘aspirational’ toilets to usher in change
1 year, 8 months ago

Top-notch ‘aspirational’ toilets to usher in change

The Hindu  

A quarter of all new public restrooms in Indian cities will soon have high-end features such as luxurious bath cubicles, touchless flushing, breast-feeding rooms, and automatic sanitary napkin incinerators. “A directive has been sent to all State governments to ensure that henceforth 25% of public toilet seats added in any city or urban unit are ‘aspirational toilets’,” sources in the …

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Telangana bags 13 National Panchayat Awards for 2021-22
1 year, 9 months ago

Telangana bags 13 National Panchayat Awards for 2021-22

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Telangana state has bagged 13 out of the 27 National Panchayat Awards 2023 for 2021-22 that the Centre announced on Friday. Unnder NDSPSVP category, the best block panchayat will get Rs 75 lakh and best district panchayat Rs 3 crore. Rama Rao tweeted, "Telangana shines again," and mentioned the panchayat awards, rise in per capital income and 100 per …

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Data | Another government survey debunks Swachh Bharat’s 100% ODF claim, count increases to four
1 year, 9 months ago

Data | Another government survey debunks Swachh Bharat’s 100% ODF claim, count increases to four

The Hindu  

Yet another recently released government survey has called into question the Central government’s claim in 2019 that all Indian villages are open defecation-free. For instance, according to data from the Swachh Bharat Mission, Gramin portal, villages in Madhya Pradesh and Tamil Nadu were declared 100% ODF by October 2018. However, according to NSO data, only 71% and 62.8% of rural …

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Punjab village receives \'Swachh Sujal Shakti Samman\' for waste management
1 year, 9 months ago

Punjab village receives \'Swachh Sujal Shakti Samman\' for waste management

Deccan Chronicle  

Chandigarh: Peroshah village in Punjab's Gurdaspur district, with a population of over 1,000, has earned national-level recognition for properly managing solid and liquid waste. Under the mission's guidelines, the ODF Plus title is given to a village that sustains its ODF status, ensure visual cleanliness and proper solid and liquid waste management. "Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann's dream is that every …

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Rs 15,961 crore spent on 141 municipalities: KTR
2 years ago

Rs 15,961 crore spent on 141 municipalities: KTR

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: In the last eight-and-a half years, the state government has spent Rs. 15,961 crore on development works in 141 municipalities, excluding GHMC, something no other state in the country has done, claimed municipal administration and urban development minister K.T. The minister told municipal commissioners, assistant collector local bodies, and others at a Pattana Pragathi workshop here on Thursday that …

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Telangana tops Centre’s ODF ranking
2 years, 4 months ago

Telangana tops Centre’s ODF ranking

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Telangana figured among the top five performing states where maximum number of villages have been declared as ODF Plus, according to the Centre's rankings released on Friday. The Centre released these rankings on the occasion of Swachh Bharat Mission Grameen, the flagship programme of the NDA government recording another milestone of 1,01,462 villages declaring themselves as ODF Plus on …

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Rights group says hundreds remain jailed over Uzbekistan unrest
2 years, 5 months ago

Rights group says hundreds remain jailed over Uzbekistan unrest

Al Jazeera  

Open Dialogue Foundation says more than 300 people remain detained after deadly unrest gripped the republic of Karakalpakstan this month. Hundreds of people are still in detention in Uzbekistan after deadly unrest this month in the republic of Karakalpakstan over a proposal to strip the region of its autonomous status, a rights group said. A state of emergency in Karakalpakstan, …

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Decoding India's 100% ODF Status
3 years ago

Decoding India's 100% ODF Status

News 18  

The Central government has recently rolled out Swachh Bharat Mission 2 after an unprecedented success of the first phase. In the first phase of Swachh Bharat Mission over 11 crore toilets were built in rural India in five years from 2014-2019. Today when the country has been declared free from open defecation, challenges like non-functioning toilets, inadequate drainage and sewerage …

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Residents of Jharkhand Village Forced to Defecate in Open Despite Having ODF Tag
3 years, 3 months ago

Residents of Jharkhand Village Forced to Defecate in Open Despite Having ODF Tag

News 18  

In October of 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared the ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan’. However, a village in the Garhwa district of Jharkhand was recently found to have been declared ODF despite its people still being forced to defecate outdoors. The local administration accepted the report without checking it, and the village was declared Open Defecation Free. People in this village, …

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Data | Three government surveys debunk Swachh Bharat's 100% ODF claim
4 years ago

Data | Three government surveys debunk Swachh Bharat's 100% ODF claim

The Hindu  

What is the share of the rural population in India that is not defecating in the open? The National Annual Rural Sanitation Survey The second comparison is between the SBM data on individual household latrine coverage as of March 2019 and the National Annual Rural Sanitation Survey data on rural households with access to their own toilets between Nov. 2019 …

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All Urban Areas in Haryana, Every City in Punjab Open Defecation Free: Govt
4 years, 4 months ago

All Urban Areas in Haryana, Every City in Punjab Open Defecation Free: Govt

News 18  

All urban areas in Haryana have been certified as open defecation free, the Union housing and urban affairs ministry said in a statement on Tuesday. It stated that all cities in Punjab have been certified ODF, while Chandigarh has achieved 100 per cent door-to-door waste collection. Chandigarh is currently processing 91 per cent of the 482 tonnes per day waste …

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