-Hindustan Times New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s pet Swachh Bharat initiative may be celebrating two years with much fanfare on Sunday but just a fifth of the respondents in a recent nationwide survey say local municipalities have improved garbage collection or cleanliness. The study found the hygiene has visibly improved in only four states – three of them ruled by the BJP while the rest of India reported marginal or no...
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Clean India cannot be achieved by budget allocation alone: PM
-PTI Invoking Mahatma Gandhi’s Satyagraha against the colonial rule, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today mooted ‘Swachhagraha’ movement for a clean India which he said is not something that can be achieved by budget allocations alone. He also took a jibe at those who claim that the ‘Swachh Bharat’ campaign launched by him has failed by showing pictures of garbage on roads and other places, saying at least there is awareness now on...
More »The Ganga has practically disappeared in West Bengal -Jayanta Basu
-Scroll.in Stretches of the original channel of the Ganga in the state have been submerged under rubbish, illegal buildings and a metro line. Adi Ganga, the nearly 75 km long original channel of national river Ganga, has been hijacked at several places. Three centuries back, this was the main outflow of the Ganga to the Bay of Bengal. Today it is a sewer buried under garbage and the Metro rail network, encroached...
More »Delhi stung by 412 cases of chikungunya in a week -Anonna Dutt
-Hindustan Times New Delhi: More than 400 cases of chikungunya were recorded in Delhi in the past week, health officials said on Monday, as the mosquito-borne disease that causes debilitating joint pain threatened to replace dengue as the Capital’s most widespread monsoon ailment. Officials said 412 new cases of chikungunya were reported last week, taking the total this year to 432. The same period saw 176 new dengue cases, taking the number...
More »In a garbage-infested Noida village, fevers have been claiming lives this monsoon -Menaka Rao
-Scroll.in But the district health administration refutes claims of a 'mystery virus'. The causes of death were different in each case, they say. Just 10 minutes of rain in Sarfabad village in Noida township caused floods in its bylanes. Children who decided that it was time to play wading in the blackish sewage water. The roads are lined with mounds of garbage. On Friday, civic authorities had removed silt from the gutters...
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