INVEST | My inventions helped India to be a clean country | Dr Bindeshwar Pathak, Sulabh Shauchalaya

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About Speaker: Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak, Sanitation Crusader, has made contribution for solving problems of open-defecation, removal of inhuman practice of manual scavenging associated with untouchability, by inventing appropriate, affordable, technology for household toilets with minimum water use dispensing manual scavenging and maintaining 9000 ‘pay and use’ based public toilets attached with biogas plants linked to Sulabh Effluent Treatment device, constructing 1.5 million household toilets and thereby liberating most of 10 lac scavengers. At instance of Supreme Court has ameliorated widows’ living conditions. Awarded Padma Bhushan, The International Saint Francis Prize for the Environment “Canticle of All Creatures” at Assisi, Italy, Global 500 Roll of Honour Award by UNEP at Beirut (Lebanon), Scroll of Honour by UN-Habitat at Rio-de-Janeiro (Brazil), Stockholm Water Prize, etc. New York Global Leaders Humanitarian Award conferred to him in April 2016”. Mr. Bill De Blasio, Mayor of the City of New York, declared April 14, 2016 as DR. BINDESHWAR PATHAK DAY. He received the 'Gandhi Peace Prize-2016' from the Hon'ble President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind at Rashtrapati Bhawan, New Delhi on February 26, 2019, in the presence of Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi. #INVEST #LearnToEarn #FinancialLiteracyForEducators

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