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Contamination, Pollution and Quality
Budget 2019 allocates income support package for farmers
Posted on 05 Feb, 2019 06:12 PMIdentify farmers for income support scheme: NITI Aayog to states
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Demolish illegal prawn gheries in wetlands: HC to Odisha
Posted on 30 Jan, 2019 10:50 AMHC orders demolition of illegal prawn gheries in Odisha wetlands
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Operating community toilet complexes
Posted on 29 Jan, 2019 03:42 PMLaunched in 2015, Project Raahat, an initiative by students of a management institute, Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies (SSCBS), Delhi University has been working on eradicating open defecation and providing safe sanitation in urban slums of India.
![Project Raahat is a fully sustainable project under the umbrella of Enactus SSCBS in collaboration with the Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board. (Image: Project Raahat, Enactus SSCBS)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/rahaat1.jpg?itok=mDN2jek3)
Committee for action against water contamination
Posted on 15 Jan, 2019 10:20 AMDevise time-bound plan to address water contamination: Parliamentary committee
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Gangetic river dolphin habitats under threat
Posted on 11 Jan, 2019 12:45 PMA five-year study conducted in the Sundarbans region has found that the rising water salinity level is threatening the habitat of Gangetic river dolphins.
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When water kills
Posted on 09 Jan, 2019 03:54 PMWaterborne diseases are diseases transmitted through
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Manual scavengers get under-reported
Posted on 07 Jan, 2019 06:55 AMStates resort to under-reporting of manual scavengers in the final verification stage
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Kerala, HP, TN top development goal index
Posted on 26 Dec, 2018 03:08 PMHimachal, Kerala, TN front-runners in NITI Aayog index on development goals
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Out of 41 study points, the Ganga clean at only one
Posted on 26 Dec, 2018 02:59 PMOut of 41 study points, the Ganga clean only at the Haridwar barrage location: CPCB
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Industries to pay for groundwater extraction from June
Posted on 19 Dec, 2018 12:07 PMIndustries to pay water conservation fee for extraction of groundwater
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