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Centre Allocates Rs 74,226 Crore Budget For Drinking Water, Sanitation
The Centre has allocated Rs 74,226 crore for the Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation in the Union Budget 2025-26, with most of it allotted to the Jal Jeevan Mission which aims to provide tap water connections to rural households.
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Centre's New Draft Guidelines On Water Supply For Differently-Abled
Foot-operated pedals to turn on taps, hand rails or grab bars at drinking water points and braille indication on taps are among the features included in the Centre's draft guidelines on accessible piped water supply for persons with disabilities.
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More Than Rs 1 Lakh Crore Funds Under 15th Finance Commission For Rural Areas
The 15th Finance Commission has tied grants of Rs 1,42,084 crore to ensure more funds to gram panchayats to make their water supply and sanitation-related plans, the Ministry of Jal Shakti said on Sunday.
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2 Sanitation Workers Suffocate To Death In Sewage Pipeline In Ahmedabad
Two sanitation workers died of suffocation, while another went missing after they entered a sewer line without wearing any safety equipment in Gujarat's Ahmedabad city on Thursday, police and fire department said.
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Department Of Drinking Water And Sanitation To Hold Essay Competition For School Children Online
The winners of the essay and painting competition will be felicitated on October 2, 2020, at the national level.
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IIT Madras Faculty Partners With Industry To Develop Touchless Sanitizer Dispenser For Vehicles
IIT Madras, along with Industry partners, has developed a touchless sanitizer dispenser that can be deployed in running vehicles such as cars, vans, buses and even auto rickshaws.
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COVID-19: DST Supported Startup To Make Alcohol Free Sanitizer
A startup funded by the Department of Science and Technology (DST) will manufacture natural, alcohol-free sanitizer for hands and surfaces which would have long-lasting antibacterial and antiviral effect.
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NIT Karnataka Produces Hand Sanitizers
The chemistry department of National Institute of Technology-Karnataka (NIT-K) here has started producing hand sanitizers in view of its shortage in the market after the coronavirus outbreak.
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COVID-19: IIT Guwahati Prepares Hand Sanitizers, Protective Gears
Since the initial days of this outbreak, IIT Guwahati has prepared hand sanitizers at its various departments and academic centres and is in the process of preparing at least 5000 sanitizer bottles and provide them to Guwahati Medical College and Hospital and Assam government.
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IIT Hyderabad Researchers Make Their Own Hand Sanitizer For The Institute Community
This has been developed by Dr Shivakalyani Adepu, who was a research scholar at the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering, IIT Hyderabad along with Dr Mudrika Khandelwal, Associate Professor, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering, IIT Hyderabad.
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BJP-Run Municipal Corporations Have Failed Swachh Bharat Abhiyan: Satyendar Jain
Blaming civic bodies for the poor sanitation conditions of Delhi, Public Works Department (PWD) Minister Satyendar Jain said on Monday that the BJP-run municipal corporations have "miserably failed" Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Swachh Bharat Abhiyan.
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AAP Ministers Use Brooms In Delhi, Sanitation Workers Block Clean-Up Team
Hours after the Delhi's ministers descended on Delhi's roads armed with brooms, striking sanitation workers had a face-off with Public Works Department or PWD staff, who had been pressed into the clean-up job. Garbage has been piling up on Delhi's roads following the indefinite strike started by sanitation workers five days ago.
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Cleanliness Drive Till August 15 in All Central Government Offices
The Union Government has decided to continue up to August 15 the "cleanliness drive" in all central government offices, public sector institutions, including banks and other departments as Prime Minister Narendra Modi "desired" so.
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Dengue Claims Four Lives in Odisha
With dengue claiming four lives in Odisha, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today sounded alert in seven districts and directed departments concerned to intensify sanitation drive with focus on industrial and mines areas that showed high incidence of the disease.
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Faridkot: 8-year-old boy drowns in abandoned water tank
An eight-year-old boy drowned in an abandoned water tank of sanitation department in a village in Faridkot.
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Centre Allocates Rs 74,226 Crore Budget For Drinking Water, Sanitation
The Centre has allocated Rs 74,226 crore for the Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation in the Union Budget 2025-26, with most of it allotted to the Jal Jeevan Mission which aims to provide tap water connections to rural households.
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Centre's New Draft Guidelines On Water Supply For Differently-Abled
Foot-operated pedals to turn on taps, hand rails or grab bars at drinking water points and braille indication on taps are among the features included in the Centre's draft guidelines on accessible piped water supply for persons with disabilities.
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More Than Rs 1 Lakh Crore Funds Under 15th Finance Commission For Rural Areas
The 15th Finance Commission has tied grants of Rs 1,42,084 crore to ensure more funds to gram panchayats to make their water supply and sanitation-related plans, the Ministry of Jal Shakti said on Sunday.
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2 Sanitation Workers Suffocate To Death In Sewage Pipeline In Ahmedabad
Two sanitation workers died of suffocation, while another went missing after they entered a sewer line without wearing any safety equipment in Gujarat's Ahmedabad city on Thursday, police and fire department said.
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Department Of Drinking Water And Sanitation To Hold Essay Competition For School Children Online
The winners of the essay and painting competition will be felicitated on October 2, 2020, at the national level.
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IIT Madras Faculty Partners With Industry To Develop Touchless Sanitizer Dispenser For Vehicles
IIT Madras, along with Industry partners, has developed a touchless sanitizer dispenser that can be deployed in running vehicles such as cars, vans, buses and even auto rickshaws.
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COVID-19: DST Supported Startup To Make Alcohol Free Sanitizer
A startup funded by the Department of Science and Technology (DST) will manufacture natural, alcohol-free sanitizer for hands and surfaces which would have long-lasting antibacterial and antiviral effect.
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NIT Karnataka Produces Hand Sanitizers
The chemistry department of National Institute of Technology-Karnataka (NIT-K) here has started producing hand sanitizers in view of its shortage in the market after the coronavirus outbreak.
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COVID-19: IIT Guwahati Prepares Hand Sanitizers, Protective Gears
Since the initial days of this outbreak, IIT Guwahati has prepared hand sanitizers at its various departments and academic centres and is in the process of preparing at least 5000 sanitizer bottles and provide them to Guwahati Medical College and Hospital and Assam government.
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IIT Hyderabad Researchers Make Their Own Hand Sanitizer For The Institute Community
This has been developed by Dr Shivakalyani Adepu, who was a research scholar at the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering, IIT Hyderabad along with Dr Mudrika Khandelwal, Associate Professor, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering, IIT Hyderabad.
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BJP-Run Municipal Corporations Have Failed Swachh Bharat Abhiyan: Satyendar Jain
Blaming civic bodies for the poor sanitation conditions of Delhi, Public Works Department (PWD) Minister Satyendar Jain said on Monday that the BJP-run municipal corporations have "miserably failed" Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Swachh Bharat Abhiyan.
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AAP Ministers Use Brooms In Delhi, Sanitation Workers Block Clean-Up Team
Hours after the Delhi's ministers descended on Delhi's roads armed with brooms, striking sanitation workers had a face-off with Public Works Department or PWD staff, who had been pressed into the clean-up job. Garbage has been piling up on Delhi's roads following the indefinite strike started by sanitation workers five days ago.
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Cleanliness Drive Till August 15 in All Central Government Offices
The Union Government has decided to continue up to August 15 the "cleanliness drive" in all central government offices, public sector institutions, including banks and other departments as Prime Minister Narendra Modi "desired" so.
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Dengue Claims Four Lives in Odisha
With dengue claiming four lives in Odisha, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today sounded alert in seven districts and directed departments concerned to intensify sanitation drive with focus on industrial and mines areas that showed high incidence of the disease.
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Faridkot: 8-year-old boy drowns in abandoned water tank
An eight-year-old boy drowned in an abandoned water tank of sanitation department in a village in Faridkot.
