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India Matters: Demanding Toilets All India -Sutapa Deb

-NDTV Our journey takes us to five villages in Sehore district, Madhya Pradesh, to meet families that do not have a toilet at home. Nearly 65 per cent of households in rural areas of the state are without Toilets. Prema and Tanu belong to a Scheduled Caste family of daily wagers in Ahlada Kheda. Students of Class 9 and 10, they are exposed to children from different socioeconomic backgrounds at...

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Rajasthan HC: No recognition for schools without Toilets -Aarti Dhar

-The Hindu 36 per cent schools in Jaipur district do not have Toilets: study Jaipur (Rajasthan): The Rajasthan High Court has directed the State government not to grant recognition to new schools and colleges if they do not have basic facilities, including separate Toilets for boys, girls and staff and drinking water. The interim order was issued by a Division Bench of acting Chief Justice Sunil Ambwani and Justice Prakash Gupta on a...

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Evidence matters to policymaking -Howard White & Radhika Menon

-The Hindu The challenge for the Modi government is to evaluate what works in development programming before making large spending decisions Governments in India have always launched big-ticket social development programmes with ambitious goals. The Narendra Modi government is no exception. Swachh Bharat Abhiyan aims to make India open defecation-free by 2019. The Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana's financial inclusion programme set a target of opening 10 crore bank accounts by January...

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Arsenic-affected village now selling packaged drinking water

-PTI Cooperative society employing French technology to cater 2,000 litres of Sulabh Jal to over 300 families a day Gaighata (West Bengal): Once forced to drink arsenic-contaminated ground water, residents of a remote hamlet in West Bengal near the India-Bangladesh border are now purifying water from ponds and selling packaged safe drinking water to neighbouring villages. Using a new innovative technology from France, village co-operative society Madhusudankati Samabay Krishi Unnayan Samity has constructed...

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Sanitation in schools

-The Hindu The inequities in infrastructure could not be starker. While several schools continue to deny the most basic sanitation facilities for poorer children, a select band of them dangle air-conditioned classrooms and dormitories and other accessories before the more affluent ones. Repeated knuckle-rapping by the Supreme Court over the years has evidently had little effect on State administrations, as the case of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana illustrates. In October...

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