Prisoners in Orissa state, India and in Sunsari District, eastern Nepal, are being deprived of proper sanitation and safe drinking paper, according to local newspaper reports. India, Orissa At a meeting in April 2011 on jail administration, Orissa's Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik asked officials... Read more...
India is sitting on 89.95 billion rupees (US$ 2 billion) of unused foreign aid for water supply and sanitation, according to a report by government auditor Comptroller and Auditor-General of India (CAG). As of 31 March 2010, unutilised committed external assistance for 16 sectors, including water... Read more...
The Global Scaling Up Sanitation project of the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) has developed a performance monitoring and benchmarking model to strengthen outcome-based management of the rural sanitation sector in India. This model has been adopted by the Government of Indian state of Himachal... Read more...
The Delhi Jal Board (city water board) has approved levying sewerage development charges on those premises which do not have a DJB water connection, or have a cut-off connection, but discharge sewage into its sewer system. The monthly levy will be in the range of 150 to 2,500 Indian rupees [US$ 3... Read more...
Senior Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar has joined hands with NDTV and Coca Cola to improve sanitation in rural India through the “Support My School” campaign which was launched in India at the end of January 2011. Read more...
Inadequate sanitation costs India US$ 53.8 billion, which is equivalent to 6.4 per cent of India’s GDP in 2006, according to a new report from the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP). Read more...