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Indian embassy in Kathmandu and the Ministry of Federal Affairs and General Administration of Nepal signed four Memorandums of Understanding to undertake the developmental projects
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More than a quarter, 26 per cent of the world's population, comprising approximately 2 billion people, do not have safe drinking water and 3.6 billion or 46 per cent lack access to safely managed sanitation.
15th August 2019 was a landmark day when Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared from the Red Fort to take forward the Jal Jeevan Mission and announced that the Central and the State governments will jointly work on the Jal Jeevan Mission and promised to spend more than Rs. 3.50 Lakh Crores on this mission.
North Korea has banned its citizens from laughing, shopping or drinking, as part of a 11-day mourning period starting today on the tenth death anniversary of former leader Kim Jong-il.
National Jal Jeevan Mission urged UP to take measures to provide tap water to 78 lakh rural households this year
Amit Shah has expressed gratitude to PM Narendra Modi for ensuring supply of pure drinking water in all schools and Anganwadi Centres of J&K before scheduled date.
A unified web portal for monitoring the progress of GOBARDHAN activities across the nation has been launched. 'GOBARDHAN' is an important component of 'Swachh Bharat Mission Phase II' for organic solid waste management.
Attributing water conservation as one of the biggest problems that India has been facing these days, the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) study has released a report. The report highlights Mumbai as the highest in the quality of water among capital cities in states where samples of tap water were tested. Following Mumbai, Hyderabad is the second in the list. The report is a study on quality of piped drinking water being supplied in 21 cities across the country, Union Minister for Consumer Affairs, Food and
The Union minister addressed the event titled "Water Impact Initiative and Ambassadors' Dialogue with Minister of Jal Shakti" in the presence of ambassadors and diplomats from many countries including Australia, Germany, and France.
The Indian government is taking many initiatives under its newly-established water ministry. Now furthering the commitment of ‘Har Ghar Jal’, PM Modi announced the launch of ‘Jal Jeevan Mission’ with an outlay of Rs 3.5 lakh crore.
Taking a constructive step, a new sewage treatment plant is being built in Kodungaiyur area of Chennai which is going to be completed until this week. This plant will sent water to the industry, which will ensure the fresh drinking water reserved for residential use.
An all India drive named ‘Operation Thirst’ was launched on July 8 and 9 on the direction of DG/RPF, Railway Board, New Delhi with an aim of curbing the menace of unauthorized packed drinking water.
The Ministry of Jal Shakti has come up with a big dream to provide tap water to each and every household in the country by the year 2024. The Minister of Jal Shakti Gajendra singh Shekhawat made this announcement in a major press meet today in New Delhi.
The so-called ‘reputed’ news media agency Reuters published a story on Friday named “Modi proclaims a cleaner India, but the reality may be more murky”, highly criticizing the progress of Swachh Bharat Mission. Reuters published the story after approaching the MDWS and the Ministry had answered each and every question in detail. But the biased media tried to defame India’s globally recognized initiative. However, the Ministry in its official release has given convincing answers all the arguments made by Reu
Sanitation and drinking water has been at a priority for most of the states. Ensuring proper sanitation facilities and also drinking water for the people affected with scarce water, the government is taking initiatives to overcome these issues.
Assam government tabled Assam Excise (Amendments) Bill, 2017 which includes stern provisions like punishments for creating nuisance after drinking or even drinking in public may land you in jail. Under the proposed rules, consuming alcohol at public places will attract a fine of Rs 5,000 and if the offender creates a nuisance, the fine will be up to Rs 10,000 with a jail term of three months.
“Drinking in public places will soon be made a punishable offense with a fine of up to Rs 5000 to be imposed on those violating the rule,” says CM Manohar Parrikar while speaking on making the drinking laws strict in the state.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday inaugurated the projects worth Rs 2000 crore in Vadodara including ferry service between Ghogha and Dahej in the Gulf of Cambay, the Vadodara City Command Control Centre, the Waghodiya Regional Water Supply Scheme and the New Head Office Building of the Bank of Baroda.
To tackle malnutrition in children and mothers, India has taken several initiatives as NITI Ayog released National Nutrition Strategy focusing on interdepartmental convergence, targets & real-time monitoring. Pregnant women and lactating mothers will now receive five thousand rupees in cash on fulfilling basic conditions of health and nutrition.
The first ever National Conference on Under-Nutrition in the country by Women and Child Development (WCD) Ministry held on Tuesday in New Delhi. The main aim of this conference is to make India Malnutrition Free by 2022.
Remember the incident in Goa, where two drunk people came over the motorcycle at Petroleum Pump and started cracking fires? This would have gone fatal like it would have caused a blast at that petrol pump. To avoid such nuisance, Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar said that soon Goa will ban drinking in public spaces.
To give adequate attention to the ongoing cleanliness campaign of the centre, Information & Broadcasting Ministry on Sunday has advised Private television, FM and community radio stations.
