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Squatting rights - Study by Dasra highlights the issue of access to toilets in urban India
Posted on 10 Oct, 2012 08:11 PM
Dasra, a strategic philanthropy foundation in collaboration with Omidyar Network and
"Plastic trash fish to highlight coastal pollution at Hyderabad CBD COP" - Roundup of the week's news (1 - 7 October, 2012)
Posted on 09 Oct, 2012 04:10 PMPlastic trash fish to highlight coastal pollution at Hyderabad CBD COP
Bacterial contamination in water affects more than half of Chennai
Posted on 09 Oct, 2012 03:44 PMChennai formerly known as Madras, the capital of Tamil Nadu is the sixth most populous city in India with 4.68 million residents as of 2011. Until 1870, it had no piped water supply within the city and people were dependent on public and private wells. The construction of a piped water supply system was started in 1872. This laid the foundation for the present water supply system.
The Nirmal Bharat Yatra - My Yatra Your Yatra Our Yatra - Jairam Ramesh, Union Minister, Rural Development inaugurates the event from Bapu’s Wardha
Posted on 08 Oct, 2012 11:47 AM5 Oct 2012, Helipad Ground, Wardha, Maharashtra.
The Nirmal Bharat Yatra - A different mindset, a different thought - The story of Goonj
Posted on 06 Oct, 2012 12:57 AMThe basic facilities that the government promises is food, shelter and clothing; but so many a times in the midst of fulfilling the food and shelter criteria, they forget about the clothing aspect which actually is one of the most important of them all. But one such NGO realized it’s importance and took it in their hands to ensure that this aspect was taken care of.
Annual Health Survey (AHS) bulletins 2010-2011- Data on health aspects of nine states by Ministry of Home Affairs
Posted on 03 Oct, 2012 07:49 PMThis data sheet on health aspects by Ministry of Home Affairs provides district wise (rural and urban) statistics of nine Indian states on the following issues:
The Nirmal Bharat Yatra - Stop 1 -"We don’t talk about it at all !" The taboo of menstruation in rural Maharashtra, a major deterrent in achieving menstrual hygiene
Posted on 02 Oct, 2012 05:40 PMPriyanka, 13 and a chirpy adolescent girl studying in a government school in a village called ‘Rohini Gaun’ 25 kms from Wardha in Maharashtra blushes and says, "We don’t talk about it at all!".
Floods completely cut off North Sikkim, as death toll mounts in the North East - News roundup for the week ending September 23, 2012
Posted on 24 Sep, 2012 03:09 PMFloods completely cut off North Sikkim, as death toll mounts in the North East
GM crops are just not the right solution for our country, says a report of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Agriculture
Posted on 19 Sep, 2012 12:31 PMThe Parliamentary Committee on Agriculture, in its August 2012 report has recommended a total ban on the field trials of all GM crops. The report titled “Cultivation of genetically modified food crops – Prospects and effects” is based on views and suggestions on the subject from the various stakeholders.
Guidelines for the green development of Kerala - Draft report on the outcomes of the Kerala State Environmental Convention organised in Trivandrum (2nd and 3rd September 2012)
Posted on 15 Sep, 2012 05:31 PMThis draft report by the Kerala Paristhithi Aikya Vedi is an outcome of the Kerala State Environmental Convention, a two day convention that was organised in Trivandrum, Kerala by calling upon various environmental and social organisations, concerned citizens, experts, political leaders in the state to discuss the environmental crisis that the state has been facing in recent years.