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Garbage piles up as East Delhi sanitation workers continue strike
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct 6 (ANI): Residents in East Delhi have been dealing with piles of garbage strewn around on roads as East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) sanitation workers continued with their strike over non-payment of their dues on Friday.
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Notice to Centre, Delhi govt on water, sanitation facilities for traffic p
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct 4 (ANI): The Delhi High Court has issued a notice to the Centre and the Delhi government on a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking drinking water and sanitation facilities for the Traffic Police.
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Sanitation workers intensify strike; protest outside Kejriwal residence
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct 4 (ANI): Sanitation workers of East Delhi Municipal Corporation intensified their strike on Thursday with scores of them marching to the residence of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.
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Sanitation coverage in rural India increased rapidly after 2014: PM Modi
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct 2 (ANI): While addressing the Mahatma Gandhi International Sanitation Convention on Sunday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that the sanitation coverage in rural areas has increased rapidly after his government came to power in 2014.
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Swachh Bharat Mission a global success: PM Modi
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sep 30 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday stressed that cleanliness has its own importance in everyone's life, adding that the 'Swachh Bharat Mission' has now become a success across the globe.
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One arrested in Delhi sanitation workers death
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sep 10 (ANI): The Delhi Police on Monday arrested a supervisor in connection with the death of five sanitation workers who allegedly died after inhaling toxic gases while cleaning a sewer.
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NHRC issues notice over death of Delhi sanitation workers
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sep 10 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Monday issued notice to Delhi's Chief Secretary and Police Commissioner over the death of five sanitation workers.
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Delhi govt orders probe into death of 5 sanitation workers
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sep 10 (ANI): The Delhi Government on Monday ordered an inquiry into the death of five sanitation workers who allegedly suffocated to death after inhaling toxic fumes while cleaning a sewer. Labour minister Gopal Rai has sought the probe report within three days.
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Delhi: 5 workers died while cleaning sewer
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sept 10 (ANI): Five sanitation workers died allegedly after inhaling toxic fumes while cleaning a sewer near DLF flats in Moti Nagar area.
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Kerala floods: Health Ministry approves additional Rs. 18.71cr grant
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), Aug 24 (ANI): The Health Ministry, led by Jagat Prakash Nadda, on Friday, approved an additional grant of Rs. 18.71 crore under the National Rural Health Mission (NHM) to flood-devastated Kerala. The amount will be disbursed to the village health, sanitation and nutrition
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Swachh Bharat could help avert over 3L deaths: WHO
Updated : 7 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 4 (ANI): If India remains committed to achieving 100 per cent coverage in terms of safe sanitation services by October 2019, as many as 3,00,000 deaths caused due to diarrheal disease and protein-energy malnutrition (PEM) since the country launched the Swachh Bharat Mi
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Rural sanitation coverage rises 89% under Swachh Bharat
Updated : 7 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 3 (ANI): The Swachh Bharat Mission Gramin (SBM-G) progress report conducted by the World Health Organisation (WHO) for the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation has said that India's rural sanitation coverage escalated to 89.07 percent till August 2.
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