Mumbai: The Bombay High Court slammed a BMC executive engineer, Slum Sanitation Programme, for delaying construction of ...

Urban villagers tilt towards BJP, cite AAP’s ‘empty promises’In a major political shift, urban villagers across 360 villages ...

Jare, Executive Engineer (Slum Sanitation Program ... he is compelling citizens to resort to open defecation. This in our view, directly subverts the intent behind the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, thereby ...

As the quantity of rubbish grows, its nature and harms are changing too. Most of India’s waste used to be organic. Now the ...

Abayomi explained that the government is committed to educating the public on the importance of good hygiene practices, proper waste management, and the dangers of open defecation. He noted that ...

It said the lack of clean water in some of the affected districts, the practice of open defecation, and poor hand hygiene had ... Typical at-risk areas include peri-urban slums and camps for ...

This once-vital lifeline of Salcete now teeters on the brink of extinction, its vibrant flow reduced to a mournful trickle in some parts. Over the past 12 years ...

Seeking to dislodge the Aam Aadmi Party government in Delhi, the Bharatiya Janata Party has made a sweeping promise to slum dwellers in the capital: “Jahan jhuggi, wahan makaan” – a house ...

Bicycles are the wheels for the planet, say cycling enthusiasts "Go to the slums, find out what in what condition people are staying. States do not have money to provide affordable housing and we ...

To discourage open defecation, senior health professionals have called on the state and local governments to make public toilets usage free of charge for the populace. They noted that the required ...