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No toilets for girls in one-fifth of India?s schools, enrolment on decline
Dip in number of schools providing midday meals to their students
“About 20 per cent schools in India still lack toilet facilities for girls,” says a re...
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Hindustan Zinc to spend Rs. 8.6 crore to build 30,000 Toilets in Rural Rajasthan
Hindustan Zinc, a Sesa Sterlite company in Zinc-Lead-Silver business has signed MoU with the State Government of Rajasthan to build 30,000 rural toilets for BPL families un...
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Fixing India?s Sanitation Problem Requires More Than Toilets
Here is a number most of you know: more people practice open defecation in India than anywhere in the world – more than 600 million individuals. Moreover, 60% of hous...
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Why do millions of Indian defecate in the open?
Its early morning and local commuters are queuing up for tickets at the Kirti Nagar railway station in the Indian capital, Delhi. Along the tracks, another crowd is gatheri...
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Duchess Of Cornwall Meets With Angelina Jolie To Discuss Helping Rape Victims
The Duchess of Cornwall and Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie – both champions of the plight of rape victims – met last week for informal discussions about their...
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City drinking water not fit for human consumption
Thirty-five out of 62 water samples collected in last three days have been found unfit for drinking. This also includes six out 20 water samples collected from different ci...
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Air we breathe is dense with pollutants
Level of air pollution in the city is higher than it was in previous pre-monsoon assessments. Ambient air quality prior to onset of rains, according to report released by t...
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Will access to toilets guarantee women's security in rural India?
The Badaun rape incident shows how vulnerable women are to sexual violence when there are no toilets in homes The shocking incident of gang rape and murder of two minor gir...
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Loo and behold, India’s dirty secret is out in the open
The country has the largest number of people defecating in the open With as many as 597 million people practising open defecation, India still has the largest number of peo...
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Burden of birth
Maternal deaths in Bihar go unreported, while state claims maternal mortality ratio has decreased Urvi Devi, 20, was in her ninth month of pregnancy. She woke up one night ...
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