http://www.dasra.org/dasra http://indiasanitationportal.org/18564
http://gatesfoundation.isebox.net/water-sanitation-hygiene/reinvent-the-toilet-fair-india http://abettertoilet.org/delhi/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0CMtwfNIa4
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Thursday, January 15, 2015
Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Nani (M.P.) bats for bio-toilets
- January 13th, 2015
Special Arrangement
MP Kesineni Nani addressing the participants of Youth Parliament, organised by ‘Vijayawada Needs U’, in the city on Saturday.
Vijayawada MP
Kesineni Srinivas (Nani) has said that he is intended to introduce
bio-toilets using DRDO’s bio-digester technology.
At a meeting
organised in connection with the first Youth Parliament, organised by
Vijayawada Needs U, a city-based student organisation, the MP said: “I
want to introduce at least 1,000 bio-toilets before my term ends.”
He was speaking at a
meeting organised in connection with the first Youth Parliament,
organised by Vijayawada Needs U, a city-based student organisation.
Admitting that
populist schemes introduced by the TDP in its last tenure had failed to
reach the grass roots level, which had kept the party out of power, he
said: “This time, Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu ensured a good
balance between the two important factors. A State should be
investor-friendly while the needs of the sections in the lower strata of
society should be given equal importance,” he said.
Referring to the poor
sanitation of the residents living on the hill slopes in One Town area,
he said that nearly 10,000 people were using a few community toilets
and the sanitation of this area should be improved.
Speaking about
Gollamandala in A. Kondur mandal of Krishna district, a remote village
he has adopted, he said that efforts would be made to groom it into a
model village in the country.
Municipalities help Vijayawada Railway Division in its cleanliness drive
www.thehindu.com January 13th, 2015
Vijayawada Railway
Division officials sought the help of 25 municipalities in keeping its
tracks and boundaries clean as part of the ongoing Clean India Mission
(‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan) and all of them came forward to make workers
available and also material to some extent. On its part, the Railway
Division is pressing earth-movers and its own personnel into service for
cleaning up the mess.
Some of the municipal
commissioners have come for inspections on railway trolleys and seen
for themselves what they could do to improve the conditions around
stations and tracks, said Divisional Railway Manager Pradeep Kumar.
Addressing media
persons here on Friday, Mr. Kumar said on-board house keeping was
provided in seven pairs of trains that originate in the division at
Vijayawada, Kakinada, Machilipatnam and Narsapur and bio-toilets were
functional in 168 coaches in three originating trains (Machilipatnam -
Secunderabad Express, Machilipatnam-Yeswanthpur Kondaveedu Express and
Narsapur-Nagarsol Express. Construction of a bio-toilet was just
finished at Ongole station and another one was planned for
Machilipatnam.
Vijayawada and
Guntakal stations which were Clean Train Stations were paid the
attention they deserved. Supervisors were deputed to take care of
cleanliness in all trains that originate in the division and
pass-through trains at Vijayawada and Tenali where trains halt for 10 to
15 minutes. RALLY: Nearly 500 officers and staff would take out a rally
from Electric Traction Training Centre at Satyanarayanapuram to the
railway station as part of the cleanliness drive which is going on
throughout the country on September 30.
Friday, January 9, 2015
Students test sanitation system in India using breathable fabric technology
A team of researchers led by Steven K. Dentel, professor of civil and
environmental engineering (University of Delaware), has been working for several years on a
breathable fabric that can be used to line pit toilets and other basic
sanitary facilities in developing nations.
Approximately 2.5 billion people around the world are still without adequate sanitation, which leads to water contamination responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths each year. About a billion people still have to defecate in the open, without any privacy or sanitary facilities.
The fabric Dentel and his team are developing is similar to that used in sports jackets and raincoats; it only allows tiny water vapor molecules through.
Dentel realized this could be a valuable way to filter out liquid water from human waste, letting the pure water escape while retaining everything else. Sewage placed in a container of this fabric would become dehydrated and therefore less hospitable to bacteria and other disease-causing organisms.
Funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the project has been in the works for some time. The lab results look promising, but must still be tested in the field.
On Dec. 28, a small group led by doctoral student Shray Saxena headed to India to begin the first field test of the new fabric.
"A lot of people in India right now don't have improved toilet systems," says Saxena. "Even in cities like Kanpur, which are really quite developed, people do not have these facilities available to them."
Because sanitation in these cities is often decentralized, an advantage of this disposal system is that it does not require connection to central water or sewage lines.
Families in two cities, Kanpur and Puri, are trying out the new "eco-vapor" toilet system, with sewage collected in 55-gallon drums lined with the breathable fabric, allowing water vapor to evaporate.
The group is observing how the fabric performs under varying conditions of heat and humidity, which affect the rate at which water diffuses through the membrane. If external humidity is high, the lined drums may fill up before enough of the water can evaporate.
The nongovernmental organization WaterAid India is partnering with the research group on site selection and implementation of the pilot project.
In addition to Saxena, the team that went to India included Paul Imhoff, professor of civil and environmental engineering, doctoral student Babak Ebraziakhshayesh and two undergraduate students, Kelsey McWilliams and Dianna Kitt.
Approximately 2.5 billion people around the world are still without adequate sanitation, which leads to water contamination responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths each year. About a billion people still have to defecate in the open, without any privacy or sanitary facilities.
The fabric Dentel and his team are developing is similar to that used in sports jackets and raincoats; it only allows tiny water vapor molecules through.
Dentel realized this could be a valuable way to filter out liquid water from human waste, letting the pure water escape while retaining everything else. Sewage placed in a container of this fabric would become dehydrated and therefore less hospitable to bacteria and other disease-causing organisms.
Funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the project has been in the works for some time. The lab results look promising, but must still be tested in the field.
On Dec. 28, a small group led by doctoral student Shray Saxena headed to India to begin the first field test of the new fabric.
"A lot of people in India right now don't have improved toilet systems," says Saxena. "Even in cities like Kanpur, which are really quite developed, people do not have these facilities available to them."
Because sanitation in these cities is often decentralized, an advantage of this disposal system is that it does not require connection to central water or sewage lines.
Families in two cities, Kanpur and Puri, are trying out the new "eco-vapor" toilet system, with sewage collected in 55-gallon drums lined with the breathable fabric, allowing water vapor to evaporate.
The group is observing how the fabric performs under varying conditions of heat and humidity, which affect the rate at which water diffuses through the membrane. If external humidity is high, the lined drums may fill up before enough of the water can evaporate.
The nongovernmental organization WaterAid India is partnering with the research group on site selection and implementation of the pilot project.
In addition to Saxena, the team that went to India included Paul Imhoff, professor of civil and environmental engineering, doctoral student Babak Ebraziakhshayesh and two undergraduate students, Kelsey McWilliams and Dianna Kitt.
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The above story is based on materials provided by University of Delaware. Note: Materials may be edited for content and length.
The above story is based on materials provided by University of Delaware. Note: Materials may be edited for content and length.
Monday, January 5, 2015
Open defecation-free country became national slogan in 2014
Press Trust of India@ibnlive.com Jan 01, 2015
New Delhi: The Narendra Modi government undertook a significant step in 2014 to make the country free from open defecation under an ambitious plan of around Rs 2 lakh crore.
The year also saw the government deciding to implement the Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project for Low Income States (RWSSP-LIS) of Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh with World Bank assistance over a period of six years (from 2013-14 to 2019-20).
The project is aimed at providing improved piped water supply covering approximately 17,400 habitations in 2,150 gram panchayats in 33 districts of the four States.
Open defecation-free country became national slogan in 2014
The Swachh Bharat Mission aims at attaining a 100 per cent open defecation free India by 2019, the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.
Wielding the broom himself, Mr. Modi launched 'Clean India' campaign on October 2 and was joined by Chief Ministers, lawmakers, prominent personalities from various fields.
The Swachh Bharat Mission (Gramin) aims at attaining a 100 per cent open defecation free India by 2019, the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.
The main objective of the programme is to bring about an improvement in the general quality of life in the rural areas, by promoting cleanliness, hygiene and eliminating open defecation and accelerate sanitation coverage in rural areas.
The main activities under the mission are incentives for individual household latrines, construction of community sanitary complexes, solid and liquid waste management projects, information education and communication, capacity building, monitoring and evaluation.
Mr. Modi, while launching the programme, asserted that Swachh Bharat mission is "beyond politics" and inspired by "patriotism". He invoked Gandhi's vision of a "clean and developed" India as he formally kicked off the five-year-long campaign.
The tech-savvy Prime Minister even launched his own version of ALS ice bucket challenge, nominating nine eminent personalities including Sachin Tendulkar, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, industrialist Anil Ambani along with several actors like Salman Khan, Priyanka Chopra and Kamal Hassan to spread awareness on the issue and asked them to continue the chain.
The ministry also launched a nationwide real-time monitoring of use of toilets on Thursday. The monitoring system was unveiled to give a big push to Swachh Bharat Mission.
People across the country will be mobilised to check and verify the use of toilets in the rural areas through mobile phones, tablets or iPads and upload the same in case of any discrepancy on the ministry's website in tune with online citizen monitoring.
Earlier, the monitoring was done only about the construction of toilets, but now the actual use of toilets will be ascertained on a sustained basis.
According to a parliamentary panel report tabled in the Lok Sabha recently, the practice of open defecation in India is due to combination of factors, the most prominent of them being the traditional behavioural pattern and lack of awareness of people about the associated health hazards.
In its report on Drinking Water and Sanitation, the Standing Committee on Rural Development even noted the fact that sanitation is mainly a mindset issue based on socio-cultural issues and habit.
New Delhi: The Narendra Modi government undertook a significant step in 2014 to make the country free from open defecation under an ambitious plan of around Rs 2 lakh crore.
The year also saw the government deciding to implement the Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project for Low Income States (RWSSP-LIS) of Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh with World Bank assistance over a period of six years (from 2013-14 to 2019-20).
The project is aimed at providing improved piped water supply covering approximately 17,400 habitations in 2,150 gram panchayats in 33 districts of the four States.
Open defecation-free country became national slogan in 2014
The Swachh Bharat Mission aims at attaining a 100 per cent open defecation free India by 2019, the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.
Wielding the broom himself, Mr. Modi launched 'Clean India' campaign on October 2 and was joined by Chief Ministers, lawmakers, prominent personalities from various fields.
The Swachh Bharat Mission (Gramin) aims at attaining a 100 per cent open defecation free India by 2019, the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.
The main objective of the programme is to bring about an improvement in the general quality of life in the rural areas, by promoting cleanliness, hygiene and eliminating open defecation and accelerate sanitation coverage in rural areas.
The main activities under the mission are incentives for individual household latrines, construction of community sanitary complexes, solid and liquid waste management projects, information education and communication, capacity building, monitoring and evaluation.
Mr. Modi, while launching the programme, asserted that Swachh Bharat mission is "beyond politics" and inspired by "patriotism". He invoked Gandhi's vision of a "clean and developed" India as he formally kicked off the five-year-long campaign.
The tech-savvy Prime Minister even launched his own version of ALS ice bucket challenge, nominating nine eminent personalities including Sachin Tendulkar, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, industrialist Anil Ambani along with several actors like Salman Khan, Priyanka Chopra and Kamal Hassan to spread awareness on the issue and asked them to continue the chain.
The ministry also launched a nationwide real-time monitoring of use of toilets on Thursday. The monitoring system was unveiled to give a big push to Swachh Bharat Mission.
People across the country will be mobilised to check and verify the use of toilets in the rural areas through mobile phones, tablets or iPads and upload the same in case of any discrepancy on the ministry's website in tune with online citizen monitoring.
Earlier, the monitoring was done only about the construction of toilets, but now the actual use of toilets will be ascertained on a sustained basis.
According to a parliamentary panel report tabled in the Lok Sabha recently, the practice of open defecation in India is due to combination of factors, the most prominent of them being the traditional behavioural pattern and lack of awareness of people about the associated health hazards.
In its report on Drinking Water and Sanitation, the Standing Committee on Rural Development even noted the fact that sanitation is mainly a mindset issue based on socio-cultural issues and habit.
Sunday, January 4, 2015
Automated, self cleaning e-Toilets for Tirupati
- January 4th, 2015
THE HINDU
Workers giving finishing touch to e-toilets in front of the Tirupati Railway Station. Photo: K.V. Poornachandra Kumar
Compact steel
structures, currently under construction at three major locations of the
temple city, seem to have sparked a sense of inquiry among denizens and
devotees. Failing to blend in with the surroundings, these futuristic
cabins have garnered a stream of curious onlookers, who have
interrogated the workers repeatedly about its function. These are
nothing but the state-of-the-art, fully automated e-Toilets, soon to be
introduced by the Municipal Corporation of Tirupati (MCT).
These toilets,
developed by a private company – Eram Scientific, will be set up at
three arterial junctions in the city – two cabins each (for men and
women) at Central Bus Station and near pilgrim amenities complex –
Vishnu Nivasam i.e., opposite to Railway Parcel Office. The third one,
comprising of a single cabin, will come up at Urban SP Office near NTR
Circle.
Speaking to The
Hindu, Municipal Engineer B. Chandrasekhar welcomed the introduction of
automated toilets and explained about their functioning. The unit, which
costs Rs.5.5 lakh, houses all the information about its usage, in local
languages. It has exits and hooters to alert people outside in case of
any emergency.
“People can use these
toilets by inserting a nominal amount of Rs.2/5, which is yet to be
finalised by the Municipal Corporation. Subsequently, the door is opened
and occupancy of the cabin is displayed outside. After every five uses,
it automatically flushes the floor and has tissues/napkins for the
people using it,” he added.
Mr. Chandrasekhar
said that the toilets would require less human intervention as inbuilt
sensors monitor the situation of the cabins. “The corporation is
building tanks at the respective facilities to address water shortage
and the company’s service engineer would be training engineers and
workers for six months,” he maintained.
The project was a
result of an extensive survey conducted in the city and the officials
are contemplating to introduce more units based on the feedback of
present ones.
Saturday, January 3, 2015
Now, a dedicated office to monitor Swachh Abhiyan
Vew of the porta-cabin dedicated to the
cleanliness campaign inside the Delhi BJP office in
New Delhi. Photo: Sushil Kumar Verma
How the city gets cleaned under Prime Minister Narendra
Modi’s pet project – Swachh Bharat Abhiyan – will now be monitored from
a porta-cabin at the Delhi BJP office on Pt. Pant Marg. The office
which has been set up under a chairman will create awareness of the
cleanliness drive by involving social wings in the Capital.
According
to Satish Garg, chairman of the committee, the cleanliness drive is
“not a political but a social movement” which he says is articulated in
the pledge that was administered by Mr. Modi when he launched the event
on October 2.
The committee has also prepared a Power-point presentation that will soon be uploaded on the Delhi BJP
website which will explain to people how to make this campaign
effective.
Senior leaders and former legislators
have also been appointed to monitor the functioning of different civic
bodies. Kulwant Rana, former BJP MLA from Rithala, will monitor North
Delhi; Manoj Shokeen will oversee activities in East Delhi while Subash
Sachdeva will monitor South Delhi. Sources say the BJP is working
towards setting right the people’s perception of the party-run civic
bodies that have been seen as failing in their duty to clean up the
city. This could also involve increasing manpower to clean Delhi, he
said.
Thursday, January 1, 2015
Times of India Survey on Swatch Bharat project
- January 1st, 2015
NEW DELHI: In a survey conducted exclusively for TOI by IPSOS in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune and Ahmedabad, PM Narendra Modi's big cleanliness scheme has caught the nation's imagination.
Of all the Modi government initiatives in its first seven months in office, the Swachh Bharat campaign is most appreciated by the metropolitan middle class.
Asked which initiative they liked most, 56% respondents picked the cleanliness drive, 18% said the foreign policy initiatives were the best thing and 15% chose Jan Dhan Yojana, the financial inclusion scheme.
Narendra Modi participates in the 'Swachh Bharat Campaign' at Assi Ghat in Varanasi. (PTI photo)
The survey polled a little over 1,200 men and women aged 18 and above. The purposive sample was divided equally between men and women and between the cities.
The age groups 18-29, 30-45 and 45-plus were equally represented in the sample as were socio-economic groups SEC A1, A2, B1 and B2. The fieldwork, in the form of face-to-face interviews, was done on December 27 and 28.
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