With an aim to encourage new ideas and approaches to accelerate safe and affordable access to sanitation for everyone, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is providing $42 million in new grants. The grant will fund toilet innovations, including research into new methods of capturing, storing, and processing waste into fertilizer, energy, and drinkable water….
The disturbing revelations of a study, done by research company AC Nielsen along with NGO Plan India, highlight the dismal state of hygiene in the country. In a shocking revelation, it is found that only 12 per cent of over 335 million menstruating women in India use sanitary napkins. The study made known that more than…
Evaluation by National Aids Control Organization (NACO) says that non-government organizations (NGOs) in Mumbai and other parts of Maharashtra have not been able to meet key parameters to prevent spread of HIV or AIDS. The organization termed the NGOs’ efforts as ‘failure’. Eight NGOs handling about 13 projects in Mumbai, Nagpur, Aurangabad, and Jalna were…
‘You cannot have two Indias. What is this stark contradiction in our whole approach in eradication of malnutrition? You say you are a powerful country but at the same time, starvation deaths are taking place in various parts of the country.’ That was a rejoinder from the Supreme Court on the matter of increasing number…
Setting the foundation stone of the campus of IIT Patna at Bihta, on April 19, Union Minister for Human Resources Development Kapil Sibal said political parties, civil society and media must reach a consensus for formulation of policies to take forward higher education in the country. ‘Our country cannot make progress without providing education to…
The status quo remains – reformer Anna Hzare continues to fast, and the anti-corruption campaign that he started is steadily gaining momentum garnering more support across the country – as the committee for drafting an anti-graft law rejected two major demands of the anti-corruption campaigners. The campaigning civil society leaders had asked the government to…
Here is the full text of the letter written by Anna Hazare to the Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, Hon’ble Prime Minister of India New Delhi Dear Dr. Manmohan Singh ji, We were invited for talks by Shri Kapil Sibal yesterday (7th April, 2011). Swami Agnivesh and Arvind Kejriwal went and met him twice. Following…
To identify and count the homeless in the Delhi, census enumerators had joined hands with NGOs to carry out a massive mapping exercise. The enumerators, nearly 30,000 of them (half of them women), and NGOs were involved in the process of counting the homeless after 8:30 pm. The homeless generally return to sleep at…
Social outfits and members from the minority community shared their experiences of the 2002 Gujarat riots at a public hearing jointly organized by various NGOs on February 22. ‘The public hearing was organized in response to Maulana Vastanvi’s statement where he meant that everything was hunky-dory for the Muslims in Gujarat. He never condoned the…
‘We are aware that it has been the government’s endeavour to engage this sector (NGOs) in policymaking, to improve the delivery of public goods and services to the people and help in strengthening accountability of public agencies and public officials,’ said Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee in a meeting with several non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to get…
