-The Times of India NEW DELHI: India Inc is slowly moving towards meeting the Swachh Bharat targets for building toilets across the country and is adopting innovative tools to meet the goals and stay within reasonable cost. While public sector companies such as Coal India and NTPC are way ahead of the private sector, Bharti, Infosys, Mahindra, TCS and Toyota are leading the pack, together building 8,000 toilets so far. M&M is...
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Socio Economic Caste Census: Has It Ignored Too Many Poor Households? -NC Saxena
-Economic and Political Weekly A survey to identify who the poor are and how many are actually poor is necessary if programmes and benefits targeted at the needy are to reach them. The Socio Economic Caste Census, of which partial results have been published, was intended to do this. Yet, even a cursory look at the figures indicates that they call for a willing suspension of disbelief. N C Saxena (naresh.saxena@gmail.com) was...
More »Government racing against time for PM Narendra Modi’s promise of school toilets
-PTI With barely three weeks left for Independence Day celebrations, Parliament was informed last week that 2.86 lakh toilets have been constructed so far Government seems to be racing against time to fulfill Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s promise of ensuring toilets in all schools across the country in a year as about 1.94 lakh toilets are yet to be made operational as against the target of 4.19 lakh toilets. Modi had in his...
More »India Inc fails to touch 50% mark on PM's toilet target -Akshaya Mukul
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Corporate India and public sector undertakings are likely to fail Narendra Modi government's ambitious plan to have toilet in each and every school. With the August 15 deadline fast approaching, HRD ministry has decided to take help of state governments and if need be get directly involved in construction of toilets. A senior HRD official said, "Eleven big corporates, 67 public sector undertakings including banks had...
More »Nagaland produces India’s first bamboo toilet
-TheNorthEastToday.com DIMAPUR: Nagaland Governor P.B. Acharya formally inaugurated India`s first bamboo toilets here on Wednesday. The inauguration took place at the Nagaland Bamboo Resource Centre in Dimapur as part of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (Clean India Mission). The two prototype bamboo toilets inaugurated by Acharya are an outcome of a five-day training on “bamboo toilets for private use and for the community” jointly organised by Nagaland Bamboo Development Agency (NBDA) and South Asia...
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