Gandhi’s Legacy: Sanitation Reform and the Abolition of Untouchability by Bindeshwar Pathak

Description

Bindeshwar Pathak has contributed his life in the field of sanitation, faecal sludge management, manual scavengers, dignity for widows, education programs and toilet museums. His contribution has made a critical difference in the life of severely disadvantaged who could not afford toilet and those who worked as manual scavengers and has faced severe discrimination in the society due to their low caste. Dr. Pathak is inspired by Mahatma Gandhi, subsequently his work was intrinsically contributed to the purpose and principle of the United Nations. In the last 50 years Dr. Pathak has worked tirelessly for human rights for manual scavengers specially who clean dry latrines, come from lowest stratum of the society and mostly women. Swacch Bharat mission a campaign inaugurated by PM Narendra Modi was not basically his mission but a mission started decades ago from a very small village of Bihar, admission started on Gandhi’s ideology of swachh Bharat and untouchability by Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak.

Explore more from our collection.