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- Monitoring Committee leads campaign for making Manjakui village shit free
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India The Block Administration of Budni (Madhya Pradesh) aims to transform all 138 villages into ODF communities before the end of 2012. With support of UNICEF , the Block ...
11/05/2012 - 12:02
- 'Shit talk' initiates transformation of Sumer village
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India The District Administration of Guna in Madhya Pradesh, together with UNICEF and Knowledge Links started implementing CLTS . CLTS is now being implemented in all ...
11/05/2012 - 11:55
- Bollywood actress becomes India’s sanitation brand ambassador
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Vidya Balan, who received the Best Actress National Film Award for her role in 2011 Bollywood hit ‘The Dirty Picture’, will now play a role to alter the real dirty picture in India. Union Minister of Rural Development Jairam Ramesh has named the ...
08/05/2012 - 15:32
- Myanmar: Fighting open defecation one village at a time
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The Burmese government declared three villages in western Bago Division ODF , a first in Myanmar, following the first year of a CLTS effort launched by UNICEF and the Ministry of Health.UNICEF and the government have been working in 20 ...
04/05/2012 - 17:10
- Start with sanitation
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Improved health practices and sanitation are an obvious starting point for improving health in rural Cambodia, writes John Macgregor. And CLTS is grabbing villagers’ attention. Read more Source: The Phnom Penh Post 10th April 2012 ...
18/04/2012 - 14:12
- No toilets for 53% of population of world’s third biggest economy
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In India, virtually every second person is defecating in the open, every third person is drinking unsafe water and at least 1,000 children are dying every day due to a preventable disease like diarrhoea. This grim picture of the world’s third fastest ...
02/04/2012 - 10:08
- India’s Minister for Sanitation Promises End to Open Defecation in a Decade
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Last week, India’s Minister for Sanitation, Jairam Ramesh announced the goal to make India an open defecation free nation in ten years. “There is a need for a social revolution to remove this blot from the society,” said Jairam Ramesh, according to a ...
29/03/2012 - 14:29
- Sanitation drive: A policy mismatch
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Twelve years into the Government of India’s Total Sanitation Campaign ( TSC ), a review by the Accountability Initiative, Centre for Policy Research in Delhi, using government data from the TSC website, shows no correlation between the amount ...
29/03/2012 - 11:15
- “India will achieve sanitation goals only by 2054”
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Going by the present pace of progress, India will achieve the millennium development goals ( MDG s) on sanitation only by 2054. While some States had already achieved the target and some are close to it, other populous States such as Madhya Pradesh ...
29/03/2012 - 11:09
- Sanitation: India can’t meet target before 2054
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The WHO /UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for water supply and sanitation has said that at its present pace, India would take time till 2054 to meet its MDG 2015 on sanitation. Source: The Indian Express, 28th March 2012 (Asia, ...
29/03/2012 - 11:04
