Time to clean the world sanitation and other ills, says Indian Vice President |
At the concluding technical plenary session of the Mahatma Gandhi International Sanitation Convention (MGISC), host of global dignitaries led by India's Vice President Venkaiah Naidu presented accolades to the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi through an intelligent, carefully plotted and daily monitored campaign. Naidu said India had made sanitation and its sustainability mandatory through Town & Country Planning offices adding all villages along India's sacred river Ganges were now Open Defecation Free (ODF). Naidu said the world must now move further to tackle all other problems such as the water crisis and clean peoples' mentality that brings evils of rape and gender atrocities, including clean money as corruption was the root cause of most problems. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister said his state was already 99% ODF and the remainder would be achieved by 30th November 2018. World Bank's Vice President for South Asia region praised Modi's visionary leadership, while UNICEF's Regional Director Jean Cough said India broke the silence and taboo on toilets and had proved to the world that ODF as a UN goal by 2030 was very much achievable. The MGISC ended with a resolve to continue to share best practices and innovations among UN members and use collaborative approach to eradicate massive problems such as sanitation.
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