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August 10, 2024 While citizens need to play their part to prevent diseases such as Zika, municipal bodies/urban area authorities need to pull their socks up and set right the poor governance mechanisms that are slowly turning cities into hotbeds of diseases, filth and mismanagement.
The Aedes aegypti mosquito, the culprit for causing Zika (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
July 28, 2024 The budget allocation for the Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation reflects a steady upward trajectory, underscoring the importance of scaling financial commitments to meet the growing demands of the WASH sector.
Child drinking water from handpump in Guna, Madhya Pradesh (Image: Anil Gulati, India Water Portal Flickr)
November 17, 2023 Women's struggle for sanitation equity in rural areas and urban slums India
A training exercise on water and sanitation, as part of an EU-funded project on integrated water resource management in Rajasthan. (Image: UN Women Asia and Pacific; CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 DEED)
October 20, 2023 A holistic approach to Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) initiatives
Shantilata uses a cloth to filter out the high iron content in the salty water, filled from a hand pump, in the village Sitapur on the outskirts of Bhadrak, Bhubaneshwar, Odisha (Image: WaterAid/ Anindito Mukherjee)
July 12, 2023 A collective impact effort, the first of its type in India that provides informal waste pickers a chance to live safe and dignified lives, with particular emphasis on gender and equity.
Waste pickers and sorters working hard to extract recyclable value from the waste we throw out (Image: Vinod Sebastian/ Saamuhika Shakti)
June 26, 2023 While governmental efforts have contributed greatly to improving urban sanitation in the country and are much discussed in literature, systematic documentation and critical analysis of efforts made by nongovernmental institutions continues to be invisible in the discourse on sanitation and needs to be acknowledged, argues this book.
Urban sanitation, a growing challenge in India (Image Source: India Water Portal Flickr photos)
Thumbs up for the land bill in Rajya Sabha
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

Rajya Sabha passes the land bill

Revised land acquisition bill that does not provide for social impact assessment for irrigation projects clears in the Upper House. The bill returns to the Lok Sabha for approval of amendements made in it.

Jal Satyagrahis still determined despite govts repression
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

MP govt enforces curfew to suppress Jalsatyagrah

State government issues arrest orders against the evacuees staging protest against raising water level in the Indira Sagar Dam and demanding compensation. 

Unbalanced: Bangalores water supply and demand
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

Water consumption varies based on many factors – how much water is available, where one lives, one’s personal habits, the weather, the seasons and so on and so forth. Each of these contributes to varying usage patterns.

Can we keep blaming dengue on climate change
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

Shantamma woke up one morning with a high fever. She also had a sudden pain at the back of her eyes and severe joint pain. She had been finding it very difficult to move around and go on with her daily routine. And it was quite a tedious routine, which began at 5 a.m. She was a house maid and worked at multiple houses every day.

IAS officer suspended for targeting illegal sand mining
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

IAS officer in Uttar Pradesh suspended for action against sand mining

The Dongria Kondhs tribals bring the judiciary down on its knees
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

Dongria Kondh tribals stand firm against mining of Niyamgiri

Extreme weather warning
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

We sat in a plush climate-controlled room and deliberated climate change as the outside world collapsed around us..

Floods in Assam affect one lakh people: Dhemaji worst hit
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

 Flood fury hits Assam

 

2001 Census: Household Tables
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

Please refer to these public links for access to the census.

Get the Household tables for the whole country here.

2011 Census: Household Tables
Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

Please refer to these public links for access to the census.

 - Rest of India

 - Karnataka

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