Successful Swachh Bharat finds backers in Faith leaders & Industry |
The Mahatma Gandhi International Sanitation Convention (MGISC) brought forth several reasons behind the success the Clean India Campaign (Swachh Bharat Janandolan). A session that bagged attention was themed 'Sanitation is Everyone's Business', moderated by Akshay Rout, Director General of India's Ministry of Drinking Water & Sanitation. Headliners in the Session included Ashwini Lohani, Chairman of the Railway Board of India, who sits over a government empire of hundreds of trains plying through a maze of nearly 8,500 railway stations. An interesting and powerful Global Interfaith WASH Alliance (GIWA) led by Swami Chidanand Saraswati, President of the famous Parmarth Niketan, Rishikesh, and co-founder Sadhvi Bhagwati Saraswati, included Dinesh Suna of the alliances of churches that run parallel to the Holy Vatican and a Mufti from the northeast state of Assam. Experts were represented by Therese Dooley, Regional Advisor of UNICEF on WASH in South Asia. It was the concerted opinion of all that private sector, other public sectors and even faith leaders, who has massive following in countries like India, must pool their resources together with the Government Ministry driving Sanitation. Faith leaders especially have given the drive for Clean India a new, meaningful and groundswell of support that yields results witnessed in India.
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