Tag: Toilets

Transgenders of UP to get first toilet in Varanasi

Sportspersons Prashanti Singh and Rahul Singh have taken up the initiative to open the first toilet for transgenders in Uttar Pradesh.

August 25, 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, …

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July 20, 2018

Woman sells cow in Bihar to construct toilet

The woman said she had approached block-level officials for funds but they ignored her

April 17, 2018

Women seek toilets on Intl Women’s Day event

On International Women’s day the rural women of Murshidabad district made a decent appeal for construction of toilets at their homes. Rural women~all working as silk farmers at Mallikpur- Diara village in Murshidabad district~have to defecate in the open as they have no toilets at home. Yesterday, they attended a programme for celebrating International women’s …

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March 10, 2018

Alipurduar town to get 4000 toilets

In bid to spread the message of cleanliness among the people and to promote sanitation, the Alipurduar municipality is all set to construct 4000 thousands toilet for families living under the below poverty line. The decision was taken after the municipality received a fund of Rs 8 cores under the Mission Nirmal Bangla project from …

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February 21, 2018

Sikkim NIT pupils seek basic facilities; go on hunger strike

Institute of Technology (NIT) Sikkim at Ravangla on Sunday launched a hunger strike in the NIT campus, demanding basic facilities like water and toilets. There are 192 students in the NIT Ravangla in south Sikkim who come from different parts of the country. “We are not being given the basic facilities like water to drink …

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February 13, 2018

Top official told to take remedial steps on community toilets

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal directed the Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUSIB) CEO Shurbir Singh to take immediate steps to improve the situation of community toilets. The directive was issued after the Chief Minister conducted an emergency meeting following complaints related to water and power supply in community toilets. Kejriwal also directed the CEO …

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February 11, 2018

Plans to built toilets for every household fails

The individual house hold latrine construction under Swacch Bharat scheme has failed to adhere to its time line in Deogaon block with 80 per cent of household yet to get a toilet. Report say during base line survey out of 26,789 family in the block only 1,245 found using toilet. At a Latter stage when …

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January 30, 2018

Who took the toilets?

Some time ago, this columnist was tipped-off about a man in India who reported a stolen hole in the ground.

November 18, 2017

Lack of toilets, water pumps complicating Rohingya crisis

The lack of toilets and well-maintained manual water pumps have complicated the Rohingya crisis in Bangladesh, according to a UN report. The report released on Sunday said that 30 per cent of the 4,370 manual pumps installed are in poor condition and 36 per cent of the 24,773 latrines were about to overflow in southeastern …

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October 30, 2017

Bharti Foundation to construct 50,000 toilets in Amritsar

Bharti Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Bharti Enterprises, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Punjab government to jointly provide over 50,000 toilets for rural households in Amritsar district. The MoU was signed on Wednesday by the Foundation with the Department of Water Supply and Sanitation of Punjab government, a spokesperson said here. …

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September 14, 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 …

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August 3, 2017

Why India needs to count its broken toilets

In 2016, as many as 96.5 per cent of rural elementary government schools had toilets, but more than one in four (27.79 per cent) were dysfunctional or locked, according to data collected for the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER). Only about 68.7 per cent of schools had working toilet facilities for students. In 2016, …

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July 19, 2017

Chhattisgarh women want cops to trace their ‘stolen’ toilets

In a bizzarre incident, a Chhattisgarh mother-daughter duo lodged a complaint with the police alleging that toilets in their home had gone missing, leaving the cops bewildered. Bela Bai Patel, 70 and her daughter Chanda, 45 living in Amarpur village in Bilaspur, filed the complaint last week alleging that the two toilets, proposed under the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, had been constructed …

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May 11, 2017

Google Maps app to help find toilets near you

Taking a step towards making India cleaner, Minister of Urban Development (MoUD) M. Venkaiah Naidu on Thursday launched a Google Map toilet locator to help people find access to clean public restrooms. The app, designed by Google, will make information available through a mobile application about thousands of public toilets throughout two locations now — …

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December 22, 2016

Govt releases Rs.315 cr for building toilets along Ganga

The Union Water Resources Ministry has released Rs.315 crore for construction of toilets along Ganga river. The Ministry released the money to Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation for building toilets as per an action plan under Swachh Bharat campaign (Gramin) during 2016-17. The Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Ministry had released Rs …

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September 23, 2016

130 villages declared declared open-defecation free

Though listed as one of the backward districts of the country with a dominant tribal population, 130 villages of 14 blocks in the district have been declared open-defecation free (ODF) as the villagers have started using pucca toilets at home.  "The construction of toilets alone cannot ensure the open-defecation free tag for a village. It’s …

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September 18, 2016