-The Hindu Pit emptying must become central to India’s efforts to eliminate open defecation Both Ambedkar and Gandhi protested the practice of untouchability by encouraging upper castes to deal with their own Waste. Last weekend, the Secretary of the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation, Parameswaran Iyer, took up their call for action by emptying the decomposed Waste from a twin-pit latrine in Warangal district, Telangana. Mr. Iyer deserves praise for calling...
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A first-of-a-kind campaign in Pune creates awareness about sanitary Waste segregation -Richa Agarwal
-Down to Earth The Red Dot Campaign by SWaCH cooperative is sensitising people about the importance of proper handling and disposal of sanitary Waste SWaCH (Solid Waste Collection and Handling), a Pune-based wholly-owned cooperative of self-employed Waste workers, in collaboration with the Kagad Kach Patra Kashtakari Panchayat (KKPKP) and Rotary Pune, launched a ‘Red Dot campaign’ to help Waste pickers avert health hazards due to mishandled sanitary Waste. The campaign is the...
More »Public money Wasted, not a drop of Ganga cleaned: NGT
-PTI New Delhi: “Not a single drop of river Ganga has been cleaned so far,” the National Green Tribunal on Monday observed, rapping the government agencies for “only wasting public money” in the name of the cleaning project. The tribunal asked the government agencies about how they were executing the Prime Minister’s ambitious ‘Namami Gange project’ and said it does not want the “drama” regarding complaints between the Centre and Uttar Pradesh...
More »How land use affects climate change -Sujatha Byravan
-The Hindu The interaction between people and land is as old as human evolution. When early hunter-gatherers started to settle down in the Neolithic transition and practise agriculture, they began to change their relationship with land in a major way. Starting with the Holocene, approximately 11,500 years ago, many plants were domesticated for agriculture. These and the associated social and technological changes led to dense human settlements that then paved the...
More »Child malnutrition on rise but funding falters -Komal Ganotra
-Down to Earth Almost 40 per cent of India's population is minor but the budget allocated to them is a meagre four per cent of the Union budget It was a mid-winter morning when we first met her at the anganwadi centre of Mai, a small village by the bank of the River Ganga in Bihar’s Munger district. The breakfast session at the anganwadi centre was just over, though some of the...
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