Days after he broke away from the NDA over choice of the presidential poll nominee, Bihar CM Nitish Kumar has managed to get the Centre to double the special assistance package to Rs 20,000 crore during the 12th five year (2012-17) plan. The state will get Rs 4,000 crore every year as central package. Although the assistance was promised at the time of its separation from Jharkhand, it was pegged at...
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With toilets in place, brides return home-Gaurav Saigal
No toilet at home, no marriage - this had been the position of three would-be brides. Now that their demand has been accepted, and each one of them were rewarded with a cash award of Rs. 2 lakh on Wednesday by Sulabh International, an organisation in the forefront of the Sanitation movement. "I was embarrassed to know women relieve themselves in the open and worried something unpleasant might happen to me. Though...
More »Sanjay Wijesekera, UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Chief of Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene interviewed by UN News Centre
-The United Nations 20 June 2012 – World leaders, along with thousands of participants from governments, the private sector, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and other groups have come together in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to take part in the UN Sustainable Development Conference (Rio+20). In our Seven Issues, Seven Experts series, UN officials tell us more about the key issues being discussed at the conference and how we can contribute to make our...
More »New law to be enacted to prohibit manual scavenging
-ANI The Centre is in the process of formulating a new law for 'Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation', revising the existing Schemes for Rehabilitation of Manual Scavengers and Total Sanitation Campaign. A new scheme for conversion of insanitary latrines in urban areas is also being formulated. Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Mukul Wasnik announced this while addressing the recently held meetings on rehabilitation of manual scavengers. Wasnik called upon...
More »A more caring touch-Harsh Mander
-The Hindustan Times There is a widespread perception of policy paralysis in the corridors of power. The two remaining years of the UPA's term is still not too short to reverse the current drift, but time is rapidly running out. The damaged economy needs urgent fixing as does restoring the credibility of an executive racked by scandals and the absence of a sense of direction. The people of the country long...
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