Clean India a shared responsibility claims PM Modi
29 Sep 2023 6:00 AM GMTPrime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday called upon people to join a nationwide cleanliness drive at 10 am on October 1, saying a clean India is a...
SDMC records at odds with ground reality
24 July 2012 2:29 AM GMTThe residents welfare associations and councillors in South Delhi have given the thumbs down to South Delhi Municipal Corporation’s (SDMC) claim of...
Despite death, Ghaziabad to leave drains open
14 July 2012 1:08 AM GMTAmid demands to cover open drains in the wake of an incident in which a four-year-old boy drowned in a drain and died on Thursday in Vashundara, the...
Sulabh, 13 other NGOs under scanner
6 July 2012 1:02 AM GMTSulabh International is among 14 NGOs whose work is under scrutiny in 22 districts of Uttar Pradesh where these agencies had constructed toilets under...
Private firm fails, locals to collect garbage
6 July 2012 12:50 AM GMTNow that the contracting private company experiment to collect the garbage has flopped, the South Delhi Municipal Corporation [SDMC] has decided to...
Mayor's dharna to protest lack of sanitation
4 July 2012 1:51 AM GMTAt a recent ground level inspection by the ruling BJP councillors, sanitary condition in Delhi was found to be wanting.On Tuesday, the east Delhi...
The stink of corruption
3 July 2012 1:52 AM GMTThere appear to be no end of scams in the construction of toilets for the rural poor in Uttar Pradesh. Now Sulabh International and three other NGOs...
Never in the open
2 July 2012 2:20 AM GMTThe government has done right to have set a goal of 10 years to turn India into an open-defecation-free country. The rural development ministry has...
Jairam sets target to make India ‘clean’
1 July 2012 4:33 AM GMTThe union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh said on Saturday that India has embarked on a 10-year mission to turn into an open-defecation-free...
Sewer workers’ daily battle with death
25 Jun 2012 12:28 AM GMTHe knows it may prove fatal, yet 55-year-old Uday Ram does not hesitate to enter the narrow manhole filled with fermented faeces, urine and other...
Clean India Campaign launched
22 Jun 2012 2:36 AM GMTThe tourism department has set out to change the image of India as a dirty country. On 19 June, Union Tourism Minister Subodh Kant Sahai launched the...
Hygiene major cause of concern: Sahay
20 Jun 2012 1:24 AM GMTUnion Tourism Minister Subodh Kant Sahay has said that lack of hygiene and cleanliness in India are a major cause of concern for domestic and...
