Non-government organisation Sulabh International on Thursday said it would give a Rs.2-lakh cash reward to newly-married Priyanka of Kanchanpur Kuiya village in Maharajganj district of Uttar Pradesh who refused to go to her in-laws' house because it lacked a proper toilet. The NGO, working in the field of sanitation, has also decided to build a toilet at her in-laws' home.

The world’s largest toilet-cum-bath chain Sulabh has now become much more unhygienic and the people of the State capital are the worst sufferers. Bhopal’s public toilet-cum-bath complexes run by Sulabh International have become very unhygienic and this is due to negligence of authorities and those in charge of cleaning them.

GUWAHATI: For implementation of the Total Sanitation Campaign in Assam, National Coordinator of New Delhi’s Sulabh International Social Service, Rupal Roy, met Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi yesterday.

Roy briefed the Chief Minister as to how this sanitation programme should be carried on in the State. The Total Sanitation Campaign is a comprehensive programme to ensure sanitation facilities in rural areas with broader goal to eradicate the practice of open defecation.

Shimla: The European Union (EU) has approved a Rs 7-crore city sanitation project for the state capital along with capacity building and awareness in four other municipalities in Himachal Pradesh. The erstwhile summer capital of the British, a pale shadow of its glorious past, was ranked at the 293rd position in a survey of 450 cities undertaken by the Urban Development Ministry in 2009. The EU project will hopefully help the “Queen of Hills” regain some ground and emerge as a cleaner and better city.

As if to buttress Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's emphasis on drinking water and sanitation in his reply to the motion of thanks to the President's address, a young woman was rewarded for her successful insistence on a toilet as a precondition for living at her husband's place.

Anita Bai Narre of Chichouli village of Betul district in Madhya Pradesh was handed a cheque for Rs. 5 lakh by Union Minister of Rural Development Jairam Ramesh, on behalf of Sulabh International, for standing up for her dignity on reaching her husband's place and demanding the construction of a toilet.

BHOPAL/ BETUL: A tribal woman from Madhya Pradesh's Betul district, who ran away from her husband's house barely two days after her marriage over lack of sanitary facilities, has become a brand ambassador for a cleanliness drive. Anita Narre's insistence on having a toilet at her in-law's place not only compelled her husband to take up the issue with the panchayat at his native in Jheetudhana in Betul district but also made Sulabh International adopt Anita's village for its "Total Cleanliness Drive".

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 Narre was handed $10,000 by Sulabh International, a non-profit group, for refusing to defecate in the open and sparking a ‘toilet revolution’ in her village in central Madhya Pradesh, according to the district magistrate.

Recognizing Sulabh International's pioneering work in developing low-cost, environmental-friendly public toilet system, the United Nations has accorded its highest consultative status to the Indian NGO.

The Chief of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) NGO office, Andrei Abramov conveyed the upgrade of Sulabh International to from 'Special' to 'General' consultative' status in a letter to Sulabh founder Bindeshwar Pathak.

It will be implemented by Sulabh International in 150 houses
A total sanitation project is to be implemented at a cost of Rs. 75 lakh at Milavittan in the district through the initiatives of Sterlite Copper here.
According to a press release, bhoomi puja was performed to this effect on Sunday. Under the project, individual household toilets would be constructed in the village. Each toilet would cost Rs. 35,000 and the company had earmarked a total outlay of Rs. 75 lakh for this project.

A majority of slum-dwellers in the Capital do not have access to proper toilet facilities as pubic toilets are in a pathetic condition, a World Health Organisation (WHO) study has pointed out. The ‘Delhi Healthy Urban Project', conducted by Sulabh International Academy of Environmental Sanitation and Public Health, also revealed that water supply, overall sanitation and solid waste management are in a bad shape.