Tag: open defecation
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UP man kills younger brother over ‘open defecation’
Puranpur Station House Officer (SHO) Harish Vardhan said, "Premraj Rathore was killed by his elder brother Baburam and his three sons after a heated argument. Baburam is in our custody and we are searching for the sons."
August 30, 2021 -
Let’s make toilets fashionable, says World Toilet Organisation founder Jack Sim
Recently in India to attend the World Toilet Summit, Sim called for a comprehensive behavioural change strategy to focus on transforming mindsets of people and also provide sustainable solutions for easy access.
June 15, 2019 -
Sanitised, Sensitised
Total sanitation is one of the major challenges confronting the Government for a long while. The Government at the Centre and in the states have experimented with a variety of ideas, schemes and programmes to fix the sundry issues related to better sanitation and hygiene. Between the Total Sanitation Campaign and the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan,...
July 20, 2018 -
Bihar teachers asked to ‘monitor’ open defecation, up in arms
A Bihar government directive to school teachers to “monitor” open defecation in their areas has raised a stink, with affected staff up in arms over the order which they dubbed as “against teachers’ dignity”. The Education Department is said to have issued orders to teachers of government high schools to check open defecation in the...
November 22, 2017 -
Won’t stop talking about issue of open defecation: Akshay Kumar
Actor Akshay Kumar, whose latest movie Toilet: EK Prem Katha has surpassed Rs 80 crore at the box office since its release, says he will not stop talking about the issue of open defecation, which the movie deals with. Akshay on Tuesday took to Twitter to share a video talking about the film and open defecation....
August 16, 2017 -
UP to build 44,000 toilets/day to meet ODF target
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's announcement that 30 districts of the state would be open defecation free by December 31 and the remaining 45 by October 2, 2018, has set a punishing task for the bureaucrats and officials in the state. The target is 1.55 crore toilets. To meet the deadline the state will...
August 3, 2017 -
Addressing a social evil
Akshay Kumar’s forthcoming film, Toilet: Ek Prem Katha is now getting a lot of pre-release publicity in the media, obviously because the film’s story is on the age-old social evil of our country — open defecation. According to one estimate, more than 600 million people in India still defecate in the open. Thus, the lack...
July 1, 2017 -
Holy trees to stop unholy practice of open defecation in Gonda
One of the dirtiest places in India – Gonda – is going green to stop open defecation with the administration planting trees having religious significance in the hope of putting an end to the menace. The plan is already underway with plantation of saplings of Peepul, Mango, Neem, Banyan, Shami and Basil. They are being...
June 13, 2017 -
‘Open defecation polluting Goa rivers’
The Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB), in its annual report has held that high levels of fecal matter resulting from open defecation is one of the major causes of river pollution in the coastal state. The report comes in the backdrop of the recent announcement made by Goa Governor Mridula Sinha to make the...
June 7, 2017 -
NGT bans open defecation, waste dumping on Yamuna floodplains
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Friday banned open defecation and dumping of waste on the floodplains of the Yamuna and announced an environment compensation of Rs.5,000 for those who violated the diktat. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar also constituted a committee headed by Delhi Jal Board CEO to oversee the...
May 19, 2017 -
Get rid of open defecation, win Singapore trip!
The Osmanabad Zilla Parishad in Marathwada region of Maharashtra has hit upon a novel idea to achieve its target of making all 621 villages in the district open defecation free by October 2. "We will select tehsil-level winners from the villagers who take early initiative in building toilet at home and send them on an...
March 28, 2017 -
Over 100 open defecation free districts in country: PM
The Clean India mission has become a mass movement and over 100 districts across the country have become open defecation free (ODF), Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Wednesday. "I am glad that the Swachh Bharat Mission is a mass movement, with over 100 districts now open defecation free," he said on Twitter. There are...
March 8, 2017