Swachha Bharat Abhiyaan aims to make India open defecation free by Oct. 2, 2019. Gandhi's deep involvement with the issue of sanitation was not merely a question of personal hygiene. He believed that merely talking about sanitation would be meaningless unless the stigma and social exclusion associated with it is not challenged. Related issues are urban waste management, construction of toilets, public education on the issue of hygiene. Sanitation workers work at very low wages and suffer inhuman conditions at work. It is shocking that 90% of India's sanitation workers die before they turn 60 after contracting various infectious diseases.
We need to put an end to the practice of manual scavenging.
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