New Delhi: First it was Vidya Balan and now it is Bill Gates who has come forward to extend support to Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh's sanitation drive. Gates, who has supported India's battle against polio, will now help alter behavioural patterns connected with sanitation. Talking to reporters after the meeting, Ramesh said, "We discussed how the Gates Foundation can support us in bringing behavioural changes along the lines of...
10:19 PM, May 30, 2012
Award winning actor of 'The Dirty Picture', Vidya Balan, will now play a role to alter the real dirty picture on the ground in India. She has accepted Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh's offer to become the brand ambassador in his campaign for improving sanitation. Manual scavenging is the worst face of India's shocking story on sanitation and Vidya has an enormous challenge on her hands - that of...
12:14 PM, May 05, 2012
New Delhi: Vidya Balan, who on Thursday received the Best Actress National Film Award for her role in 'The Dirty Picture', is the new brand ambassador for the sanitation drive launched by Union Minister for Rural Development Jairam Ramesh. "I can't remember when was the last time I did anything without conviction," said Balan, when asked if she was convinced about the cause. With manual scavenging still a reality and...
09:17 PM, May 03, 2012
Greek philosopher Socrates once said, "It is not living that matters, but living rightly." As the clock is inching towards the 2015 deadline of the ...
09:12 AM, May 03, 2012
Rome: Governments are failing to fund projects to improve access to toilets and other sanitation services in poor countries because the subject remains "taboo", a director at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said on Monday. "Who wants to talk about shit?" asked Frank Rijsberman, Director of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene at the $ 34 billion charitable foundation, during an interview with Reuters on Monday. "It's the last big taboo...
08:49 AM, May 01, 2012
Patna: Nearly 56 per cent of families in Bihar have a mobile or landline connection, but about 77 per cent of the population lack toilets, says a census report, highlighting the paradoxes in the state which has taken big leaps in development but also lagged behind in key areas. "Till 2001, only 2.2 per cent families were using any kind of telecom facility in Bihar, now over half of its...
02:42 PM, Apr 20, 2012
New Delhi: In the upcoming budget to be presented on the March 16, Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation may see a hike in allocation that could be anything between 40 to 60 per cent, which means that the allocation could go up from approximately Rs 9500 crore to at least Rs 14,000 crore. Speaking at the 2nd meeting of National Drinking Water and Sanitation Council, the minister for Drinking...
09:59 PM, Feb 21, 2012
Jairam Ramesh on Friday expressed concern that the government's Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) is being seen as a 'token sanitation campaign' and rued that women were demanding mobile phones but not toilets. ...
04:07 PM, Feb 18, 2012
New Delhi: The Human Development Index (HDI) in the country rose by 21 per cent, says a report while cautioning that health, nutrition and sanitation remained key challenges for India. India Human Development Report, 2011, prepared by Institute of Applied Manpower Research, placed Kerala on top of the index for achieving highest literacy rate, quality health services and consumption expenditure of people. Delhi, Himachal Pradesh and Goa were placed at...
05:08 PM, Oct 21, 2011
Poor sanitation in India is costing annual losses of $54 billion. ...
09:58 AM, Dec 23, 2010
India's sanitation report card says 190 cities are on the brink of an environmental emergency. ...
10:12 AM, May 11, 2010
India's sanitation report card says 190 cities are on the brink of an environmental emergency. ...
10:12 AM, May 11, 2010
The actor will promote cleanliness in all CBSE schools across India ...
04:31 PM, Apr 27, 2010
About half of the country’s population doesn’t have access to toilets. ...
11:30 PM, Jul 18, 2008
Sanitation experts at the 7th world toilet summit speak on the toilet toil. ...
01:02 AM, Nov 02, 2007
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