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Barring Modi, no other PM has spoken about building toilets: Kovind

Former president Ram Nath Kovind on Sunday said barring Narendra Modi, who spoke about building toilets from the ramparts of the Red Fort, no other prime minister had laid stress on the subject. Kovind was speaking at the National Conference on Sociology of Sanitation where Modi's message was also read out. The prime minister's message said: "Making people aware of the transformational outcomes of sanitation and cleanliness will also help in preparing domain-specific professionals and generate more opportunities for employment and self-employment." Speaking at the event, Kovind recalled the words of Mahatma Gandhi, who had always prioritised cleanliness. "Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi used to say cleanliness is next to godliness. Just like when the heart is not pure, one cannot gain god's blessings, in the same way, if our body is not clean, we cannot gain god's blessings. "How can one's body be clean when one is staying in an unclean place?" he asked. The former president

G20 summit: MCD to repair old toilets, build new facilities in Delhi

New toilets will be built and old ones will be repaired across five zones of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi as part of the civic body's preparations for the G20 summit, officials said on Saturday. India assumed the year-long presidency of G20 on December 1. More than 200 meetings will be held at 55 locations in India and the summit will take place in the national capital in September 2023. The G20 comprises Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey, the UK, the US and the European Union. Several roads and parks will be beautified, trees illuminated and public art will be installed at many locations in Delhi, according to civic officials. Work for the construction of new community toilet complexes (CTCs) and public toilets (PTs) and to repair the old ones has been intensified, the MCD said in a statement. The work would be carried out in five zones -- Ka

5.7 mn individual household toilets built during 2020-21, 2021-22: Govt

A total of 56,97,228 individual household latrines have been constructed under the Swachh Bharat Mission-Grameen during 2020-21 and 2021-22, the Ministry of Jal Shakti said on Monday

India's fact checking on toilets rests on asking the right questions

Accurate data on sanitation behaviour and toilet use can be captured if surveys ask questions on sanitation practices of all individuals in a household instead of one member, say experts

India's interventionist state: Reduce its scope, increase capability

Govt is increasingly keen to deliver even specific items like toilets, water, gas cylinders, where it can show the beneficiary immediate results. This new welfarism helps win polls but not development

NFHS data puzzles: Why do we have more toilets but more child stunting?

Decline in GDP of 2020 will adversely affect purchasing power of many households and also five key health outcome measures

22nd Law Commission, Rs 4,558 cr for dairy farming: Key Cabinet decisions

The second phase of Swachh Bharat will start soon, Javadekar added

This 18-year-old Gurugram student built two community toilets in a village

She started by conducting three workshops on using the toilets, besides spreading awareness about the best hygiene practices, especially among women

Over 16 crore rural households have access to toilets: Govt tells LS

Shekhawat said out of the over 16.34 crore rural households which have access to toilets, 2.84 crore are in Uttar Pradesh, 1.59 crore in Bihar and 1.37 crore in West Bengal

Rural India open defecation free? Not quite, shows NSO survey report

In 2014, NDA govt had set a target of making rural areas open defecation free by October 2, 2019 by launching the Swachh Bharat Mission to "provide access to toilet facilities to all rural households"

A laudable achievement

But Swachh Bharat could have been more than building toilets

Explained in numbers: How govt saved on costs by building toilets

The economic benefits of having a toilet

Cheering for toilets but with caution

Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation (MoDWS) commissioned two private consultancies, IPE Global and Kantar, to conduct a nationwide survey to verify India's ODF status

Find the nearest loo on Google maps; 45,000 toilets added in 1700 cities

The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs joined hands with Google to launch the Loo Review campaign in September 2018 to encourage all local guides in India to rate and review public toilets on Googl

21,977 govt schools in India do not have toilets for girls: Parliament told

4.17 lakh toilets including 1.91 lakh girls' toilets were constructed/made functional in 2.61 lakh government schools in one year period up to August 15, 2015

Modi govt to states: Call toilets 'Izzat Ghar' to instil pride in families

'Izzat Ghar' will protect dignity of the house

Restaurants, hotels to open their toilets to women, kids in South Delhi

Civic authorities will test the efficacy of this initiative on a "trial basis"

Need to pee urgently? Pay Rs 5 to use toilets in South Delhi's restaurants and hotels from April

People would be able to use this facility by paying just Rs 5

Delhi govt to build 17,000 toilets in city's JJ clusters

A grant of Rs 150 crore has been sanctioned for building 17,000 toilets