Modi’s Swachh Bharat Campaign - Need for Common Man’s Participation By Deepak Parvatiyar August 23, 2014 In his Independence Day speech from the ramparts of the Red Fort, Prime Minister Narendra Modi made an earnest call for a clean India and urged the corporate sector to include sanitation and toilet construction for girls and women, as part of their corporate social responsibility. Obviously, the prime minister’s call has grabbed attention of the people towards the basic problems of sanitation and accumulating garbage all around us. The corporate sector has responded positively and there are projections of a Rs 1.62-2.2 lakh crore stimulus to the economy over five years as a result of the PM’s call to build toilets. Sanitation Stressed Time and Again Yet this is not the first time that our political leadership has exhorted us to be a swachh society. Mahatma Gandhi had gone to the extent of saying that ‘Sanitation i
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