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While ODF status on paper is an achievement, premature ODF status declaration has its own set of adverse consequences.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi must be assessed by the success or failure of his major decisions that have been taken since he assumed power in May 2014
Direct budgetary support for urban sector schemes do not show any appreciable increase.
Open defecation (OD), an age-old practice in India, impacts the health of individuals as well as their communities. To tackle the problem, the Government of India launched the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) in 2014, aimed at making the country open-defecation free (ODF) by October 2019 by giving more attention to community-based approaches. However, while such approaches have helped solve the sanitation riddle in many countries, curbing OD in India
Unless India takes up urban planning with the seriousness it deserves, the future of some of the mega projects of the incumbent government such as the
When it comes to the Budget, we should ask ourselves two questions: Is there a rationale behind it? Is there implementation on ground?
Sanitation challenges will continue to persist in urban centres until there is an expansion in the managerial, financial, and technological capacities
Despite the success of the Swachh Bharat Mission, there is a need for a paradigm shift in the approach to slum sanitation in Mumbai
The commitment towards local economic development, sustainable development, ease of living, etc. must be showcased by inviting reputed countries of th
Figures speak for themselves in India’s most populous city. Census 2011 data revealed that nearly 42% of Mumbai’s total population of nearly 1.3 c
Despite acknowledging the detrimental effects of manual scavenging, no concrete effort to make any real change has been witnessed over the years.
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