Visakhapatnam: The Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation is all set to introduce biometric attendance system for sanitation workers from Monday. 
Initially, the system would be implemented in

If you thought RT Nagar, Sultanpalya, Kaval Byrasandra and surrounding “posh” localities were free of problems, visiting them would soon disillusion you. Huge craters and heaps of garbage are piled u

A major step to make India open defecation free was taken on Thursday with the ministry of rural development headed by minister Jairam Ramesh joining hands with the ministry of defence under defence m

Decrying the lack of proper sanitation facilities, Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh on Friday said toilets built over the last 10 years across the country are being used for storing food grain

With few contractors coming forward to take up the rural water supply and sanitation works on tender basis, the state government has mooted selective joint ventures. The government plans to take up ab

Launching green toilets very close to country's missile test-firing facility, Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh on Sunday said there is no use blasting Agni missiles if the sanitation problem i

Unhygienic restaurants may cause food-borne diseases and so regular inspections at kitchens of hotels and eateries should be conducted, said Dr Krishnaraj, deputy director of health services, who is a

Sanitation in rural India would get a boost with a likely 40 per cent increase in the budget this year for construction of toilets in village homes, Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh has said.

"Women demand mobile phones, they are not demanding toilets," lamented Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh on Friday in remarks that could create a controversy.

"Sanitation is the much more

An Indian woman has been rewarded for her 'bold' decision to leave her marital home within days of the wedding to protest the lack of a toilet in the household, an official said on Thursday.

Anita Na