Geneva [Switzerland], September 15 (ANI): India Water Foundation highlighted the nation’s commendable progress within the area of sanitation and rights to water on the 54th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva on Thursday.
At a facet occasion titled”Safeguarding Human Right to Water and Sanitation in India amidst Climate Change”, the panellists deliberated on the Sustainable Development Goal for water and sanitation.
They additionally counseled Clean India or Swachh Bharat Mission whereby 105 Million bathrooms have been constructed bringing behavioural change in nearly 600 million Indians.
India’s Jal Jeevan Mission will obtain protected and inexpensive ingesting water in addition to attain rural areas of the nation by the yr 2024.
Arvind Kumar, CEO of India Water Foundation in an oral intervention on Interactive Dialogue with Special Rapporteur on Rights to WaterSanitation highlighted India’s progress within the area of WaterSanitation.
He knowledgeable that for the reason that launch of the Swachh Bharat Mission and the Jal Jeevan Mission programme, 62 per cent of households in rural India have faucet water connections and 40 per cent of rural households have declared themselves Open Defecation Free.
India’s Jal Jeevan Mission is consistently rising with an goal to achieve out to poor and rural folks within the nation.
IWF has initiated the Jal Mitra Campaign with 50,000 Jal Mithras to boost public consciousness and inform about environmental points in urbanrural areas of the nation.
The occasion was moderated by Shweta Tyagi, Chief Founder of IWF.
The panel of Speakers have been Arvind Kumar, CEO of IWF, Sonja Koeppel, Secretary of UN Water ConventionUN Economic Commission of Europe in Geneva, Karan Gardes, COOActing Director Stockholm International Water Institute, Rajan Ratna, Deputy Head (SouthSouth West Asia) UNESCAP, New Delhi, Satya Tripathi, Secretary General Global Alliance for Sustainable Developmentformer Assistant Secretary General, UN at New York and Vishnu Ranjan Sinha, Water and Wetland International Union for Conservation Of Nature, Bangkok. (ANI)