Nashik, March 2014: The Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) on Sunday invited expressions of interest (EOI) from private agencies in the city to provide portable toilets/urinals on rental basis for the forthcoming Simhastha Kumbh mela.....
Mumbai, March 13, 2014: The Right to Education (RTE) Act came into effect across the country in 2010, but its proper implementation is still a distant reality in the state. Forget quality education, schools in Maharashtra are struggling to provide even....
Mumbai, March 12, 2014: Three projects have received funding support from the Sanitation Financing Partnership Trust Fund, created last year by the Asian Development Bank, in recognition that complex urban and coastal environments require new ....
Mumbai, Feb 19, 2014: The H-West Federation and Wake Up Bandra organised the third MUSTRun this morning in the suburb of Bandra. Over 400 Municipal School children and Senior Citizens raced down a 2 km route around the streets of Bandra while nearly ....
Aurangabad, Feb 12, 2014: In a bid to make villages sustainable, the Aurangabad divisional commissionorate for the first time has undertaken the task of making eco-friendly development plans for them in tune with the needs of villagers. ....
Calangute, Goa, Feb 4, 2014: "Nobody should take the law in their own hands. Atithi Devo Bhavo - our guest is like a god," chief minister Manohar Parrikar said at Calangute on Monday evening during the inaugural function of the Calangute beach promenade.....
Nagpur, Jan 31, 2014: While almost 10% schools don't have toilets for girls, there are almost 4% schools without toilets for boys. With the Right To Education (RTE) Act coming into force, schools now have no wriggle room and need to construct a boys....
Nagpur, Jan 24, 2014: Hygiene and sanitation in schools is a major issue, especially when it comes to institutions run either directly by the government or aided by it. Lack of funds and improper implementation of plans have caused schools....
Pune, Jan 17, 2014: The emphasis on school infrastructure as per the Right to Education Act notwithstanding, the dropout rate among girls in the 7-16 age group shot up last year, when over 14% girls went missing from schools in rural parts of Maharashtra....
Indore, Jan 12, 2014: Absence of a toilet and utter humiliation of defecating in open, brought the eight-year-old wedlock of a dalit couple Dev Karan and Savita on the brink of total collapse in Mundlana village of Madhya Pradesh's Dewas district.....
