-The Indian Express Mewat (Haryana): Mewat district Villages: 443 Population: 10.9 lakh Literacy: 56.1% (women 37.6%) Sanitation status: Lack of toilets in schools identified as main reason for high dropout among girls, over a thousand toilets built in 2008-12. Rajakiya Kanya Madhyamik Pathshala in Mewat district's Shah Chaukha village has 786 girls on the rolls between nursery and Class VIII. In 2008, a toilet was constructed, but within months, it shut down for lack of...
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Government to spend about 2 lakh Crore rupees for Swachh Bharat Mission: More than 11 crore toilets will be built in 5 years
-Press Information Bureau/ Ministry of Rural Development The Union Minister of Rural Development and Drinking Water and Sanitation Shri Nitin Gadkari said that Swachh Bharat Mission will be converted into a mass movement to make India an open defecation free country in Five Years. Addressing a Joint Press conference with the Urban Development Minister Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu here this afternoon, Shri Gadkari said, one lakh thirty four thousand crore rupees...
More »National Optical Fibre Network plan likely to miss first target -Shauvik Ghosh
-Live Mint State-run companies laying cable at speed of 500km a month, much slower than 30,000km per month rate needed New Delhi: The Rs.20,000 crore National Optical Fibre Network plan that aims to connect 250,000 gram Panchayats (village councils) across the country with high-speed Internet access is likely to miss its first target of linking 100,000 gram Panchayats by March. The three state-run companies tasked with the job of laying optical fibre...
More »More men among toilet-sceptics in India -Rukmini S
-The Hindu The figure for households without toilets is 47 per cent for Hindu households as against 31 per cent for Muslims and 16 per cent for Christians and Sikhs, according to NSS data. Extensive new evidence shows that building toilets alone will not eliminate open defecation in India as not everyone who has access to toilet, especially men, believe that it's important to use it. Not having a toilet remains the major...
More »Tribals Being Shortchanged by ‘Shahukars’ -VKL Gayatri
-The New Indian Express PADERU (VISAKHAPATNAM DT) : It looks like there is no end to the plight of tribals in Agency areas of the district. They are being fleeced, cheated and robbed almost in every sphere of their lives. Here is a classic example of how the ‘shahukars' or the money-lenders loot the tribals with the banned instruments of measuring foodgrains. The ‘shahukars' shortchange the tribals as the latter barter their...
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