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		<title>Failing The Capital On Swachh Mission</title>
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This left unauthorised colonies effectively out of the mission coverage with regard to household toilets. &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; The Delhi Government&amp;amp;#39;s inability to target individual households for the construction of household toilets and to identify sites and blocks for construction of community toilets and public toilets, and ignoring the [https://www.dict.cc/?s=toilet%20requirements toilet requirements] in unauthorised colonies shows its deficient concern for public convenience facilities.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; The problems pertaining to Swachh Bharat Mission in Delhi also got compounded due to the lack of awareness levels. The CAG audit report also observed in this regard that a total of only Rs 2.03 crore was spent on public awareness programme against Rs 5.17 crore released.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;East Delhi Municipal Corporation and Delhi Cantonment Board spent Rs 2.3 million and five million rupees against Rs 18.6 million and Rs 2.7 million released to them by the Delhi Government. The disregard for spreading awareness has meant that the public were unable to take benefit of a convenience for which they had funds allocated.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; The United Nations report on water access and sanitation in India states that 564 million of the country&amp;amp;#39;s people still defecated in the open. The UN report further states that 65,000 tonnes of uncovered, untreated faeces equal to the weight of around 180 Airbus A380s were being introduced into the environment in India every single day.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Thanks to the lack of toilets and toilet hygiene. With staggering statistics such as these, it is painful to note that funds for preventing the same are lying unused. &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Apart from the Government inability, there is also another factor in getting all of India&amp;amp;#39;s households and communities to use latrines, and to take collective responsibility for their upkeep.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Many of the current practices responsible for the abysmal state of sanitation in the country are rooted in traditional notions of purity and hygiene often the same ones that normalise the allocation of sanitation work to the oppressed castes. Transforming sanitation in India will require a large-scale change in these beliefs, yet here again the Swachh Bharat Mission is faltering.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; The stakes are high especially for human health and this reflects in India&amp;amp;#39;s sanitation crisis, which has huge costs. The UN estimates that around 117,000 of the deaths of Indian children under the age of five are being caused by diarrhoea, the incidence of which correlates closely with the [https://www.gov.uk/search/all?keywords=quality quality] of sanitation in an area.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;This means that 10 per cent of all deaths under the age of five in the country are due to this is among the highest proportions of anywhere in the world. India needs to urgently script success story that leaps over these [https://www.fool.com/search/solr.aspx?q=hurdles hurdles] and lends action to the noble initiative of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;- It is distressing that ever since its launch, the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan has failed the people in the Capital as much of the allocated funds remain unutilised for more info visit :&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Notice To Sites That Do Not Convert</title>
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		<title>Battles Shake Sudan apos;s Capital Ceasefire Talks Reported To Make...</title>
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Fuel and food supplies have been running low.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; &amp;quot;Our only hope is that the negotiations in Jeddah succeed to end this hell and return to normal life, and to stop the war, the looting, the robbery and the chaos,&amp;quot; said Ahmed Ali, a 25-year-old resident of Khartoum.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Aid agency Islamic Relief said many aid operations in Darfur and Khartoum remained suspended due to extreme insecurity.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; It plans to provide aid to thousands of people in Al Gezira state, southeast of Khartoum, where some 50,000 people have fled, as well as to people in parts of Khartoum State and North Kordofan, where fighting has raged.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Conflicts are not new to Sudan, a country that sits at a strategic crossroad between Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia and the volatile Sahel region, although most unrest in the past occurred in remote areas.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; The United Nations has projected that 5 million additional people will need emergency assistance inside Sudan while 860,000 are expected to flee to neighbouring states.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; (Reporting by Khalid Abdelaziz in Dubai, Mohamed Noureldin in Khartoum, Aidan Lewis and Nafisa Eltahir in Cairo, George Sargent in London, Crispian Balmer in Rome, Daphne Psaledakis and Simon Lewis in Washington; Writing by Aidan Lewis, Tom Perry and Cynthia Osterman; Editing by Christina Fincher, Mark Porter and Lisa Shumaker)&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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