Sulabh International School of Action
Sociology & Sociology of Sanitation organises a on
‘Sociology of Sanitation’ National
From April 02 to 05, 2023
at Dr Ambedkar International Centre, New Delhi
Conference
Distinguished visit of former President of India Hon’ble Shri Ram Nath Kovind ji and his family on the occasion of Mahatma Gandhiji’s birthday on October 2, 2022 at Sulabh Sansar, Mahavir Enclave, Palam-Dabri Road, New Delhi
Dr. Pathak explains to Hon'ble Shri Ram Nath Kovind ji, the model of the Sulabh two-pit ecological compost toilet
Hon’ble Smt. Savita Kovind ji, Former First Lady fries a papad at the Sulabh kitchen, where the biogas from the Sulabh toilet complex is used for cooking
Hon’ble Shri Ram Nath Kovind ji, smelling a lump of odour-free decomposed human excreta taken out from the Sulabh two-pit compost toilet pit
Hon’ble Shri Ram Nath Kovind ji, observes clean water in a flask salvaged from biogas sludge with the help of Sulabh technology
Dr. Pathak shows to Hon'ble Shri Ram Nath Kovind ji, the squatting pan, the water seal and other parts of the two-pit toilet which requires only one litre of water to flush out waste
Hon’ble Shri Ram Nath Kovind ji, is happy to see the process of making sanitary napkins
The Ujjwala Man who also led one of the world's largest counselling programmes: Hon'ble Union Minister Shri Dharmendra Pradhan distributed the free LPG connections to poor women under Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojna (PMUY), at a function, in Rayagada, Odisha
Hon’ble Shri Dharmendra Pradhan Union Minister of Education, Skill Development & Entrepreneurship
Hon’ble Shri Ganga Prasad ji, former Governor of Sikkim, visits Sulabh Sansar on the occasion of the birthday of the Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modiji on 17th September, 2022 and inaugurates the Sulabh International Museum of Water Education. The Museum is the first of its kind in the country.
Hon’ble Shri Ganga Prasad ji, observes the Sulabh technology of purifying domestic waste water through duckweed (a free floating aquatic plant), which cleans water that is safe to discharge into any water body.
Sulabh International School of Action Sociology & Sociology of Sanitation organises
National Conference on
Sociology of Sanitation
on Sunday, April 02, 2023 | 11:00 am at Dr. Ambedkar International Centre, New Delhi
Inaugural address by the Chief Guest : HON'BLE SHRI RAM NATH KOVIND FORMER PRESIDENT OF INDIA
Guests of Honour : HON’BLE SHRI DHARMENDRA PRADHAN UNION MINISTER OF EDUCATION, SKILL DEVELOPMENT & ENTREPRENEURSHIP & HON’BLE SHRI GANGA PRASAD
FORMER GOVERNOR OF SIKKIM & MEGHALAYA
Presidential address by : HON’BLE SHRI TIRATH SINGH THAKUR FORMER CHIEF JUSTICE OF INDIA WHO PRESIDES OVER THE INAUGURAL SESSION
Please visit the photo exhibition on Sulabh Sanitation Movement and Sociology of Sanitation
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Visit of Hon’ble Mr. Justice Tirath Singh Thakur, Chief Justice of India, to Sulabh Sansar on December 31, 2016
Sulabh receives Hon’ble Mr. Justice Tirath Singh Thakur, the then Chief Justice of India, at Sulabh Sansar, on December 31, 2016
Trainees from Sulabh Skill Development Centre, Ukhral village, District Ramban, Jammu greet Hon’ble Mr. Justice Tirath Singh Thakur. The Centre was started at the initiative of Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak, Founder, Sulabh Sanitation, Social Reform and Human Rights Movement and Hon’ble Mr. Justice Tirath Singh Thakur, on August 1, 2014
EMINENT PERSONALITIES WHO VISITED SULABH SANSAR
Her Royal Highness
Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, Kingdom of Thailand, shows keen interest in the Sulabh technologies
Dr. Pathak explains to Her Royal Highness
Princess Mathilde, the model of the Sulabh two-pit ecological compost toilet installed in areas where there is space constraint
Thakur
Hon'ble Home Minister of India (the then National President of BJP) Shri Amit Shah lighting the mantle lamp that uses biogas as green fuel from the Sulabh Toilet Complex
Hon’ble Mr. Akshay Kumar, Celebrated Actor and Youth Icon, smelling a lump of odourfree, decomposed human excreta taken out from the Sulabh two-pit compost toilet
Dr. Pathak showing H.E. Mr. Fredrik Reinfeldt, Swedish Prime Minister and his wife, clean water treated with the help of Sulabh technology
Hon'ble Smt. Ela Gandhi, granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi, and globally renowned peace activist watches a demonstration of how Sulabh biogas is used for warming oneself during winter
His Excellency Mr. Timothy J. Roemer, the then US Ambassador to India interacts with the children of Sulabh Public School
His Excellency Mr. Alphonsus H.M. Stoelinga takes the lumps of decomposed human excreta in his hands
Hon’ble Dr. Jitendra Singh, Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office, Government of India, watches an engine that converts biogas into electricity
His Holiness Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankarji fries a papad at the Sulabh kitchen, where the biogas from the Sulabh toilet complex is used for cooking
Hon’ble Mr. Justice Tirath Singh
being briefed by Dr. Pathak, on the working of the Sulabh Effluent Treatment Plant, and how the treated water is made pathogen-free and safely used for floriculture and horticulture
His Excellency Mr. Richard Rahul Verma, the then US Ambassador to India having a close look at the model of Sulabh twopit pour-flush ecological compost toilet
OBSERVATIONS OF EMINENT PERSONALITIES ABOUT DR. PATHAK
“...Dr. Pathak is a man who has worked on the ideals of Mahatma Gandhi, Dr. Ambedkar, and Lal Bahadur Shastri ji. So I can say about Dr. Pathak that he is
“... I want to congratulate once again the son of Bihar Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak and his organisation for being awarded with the prestigious 'Gandhi Peace Prize'. Through your determination, hard work and unparalleled work in the field of sanitation and contribution towards the Swachh Bharat Campaign, you have paid homage to the historic work of Mahatma Gandhi, who had started his own sanitation campaign in Champaran. You have taken forward the great mission of Gandhiji.”
I congratulate you on what you have achieved, which you richly deserve, for which there is no comparison. You have done such a great job and I would like to tell you that Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak has brought about a revolution, a very big revolution. Financial revolution can come about and can be brought about, but to bring a revolution in the mindset of people is a very big achievement, a very difficult job which Dr. Pathak has brought about.
One organisation which works to improve the state of sanitation in the country is Sulabh, founded by Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak in 1970. Sulabh is the largest internationally recognized pan-Indian social service outfit with over 35,000 volunteers. It began through Pathak’s desire to help scavengers-men and women who carry and dispose of human excreta. He developed a two-pit pour flush toilet (known as the Sulabh Shauchalaya) which did not require scavenging to clean. Subsequently, Sulabh also started pay-and-use public toilets, popularly known as Sulabh Complexes, with bath, laundry and toilet facilities. These are used by about ten million people every day. Sulabh has also pioneered the production of biogas and bio-fertilizer from excreta-based plants.
HON’BLE DR. A. P. J. ABDUL KALAM PRESIDENT OF INDIA
The Sulabh technology is revolutionary. The efficacy of the system lies in its cost effectiveness and hence can be accepted globally. We are definitely going to mention Sulabh technologies and initiatives in our report.
ROBERTO LENTON CHAIRMAN OF THE U.N. MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOAL (MDG) TASK FORCE ON WATER AND SANITATION
Technology from Sulabh can help alleviate the water and sanitation problems in a big way if replicated in other countries. We can achieve the MDGs within the prescribed period with the help of a social organization like Sulabh.
MARGARET CATLEY-CARLSON GLOBAL WATER PARTNERSHIP
‘three in one’.”
HON’BLE PRESIDENT OF INDIA SHRI RAM NATH KOVIND
THE HON’BLE PRESIDENT SMT. PRATIBHA DEVISINGH PATIL
Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak deserves the gratitude of the Nation.
KHUSHWANT SINGH EMINENT JOURNALIST
HON'BLE PRIME MINISTER SHRI NAREDRA MODI JI SAID REGARDING DR. PATHAK IN A PUBLIC RALLY IN PATNA, BIHAR ON 3RD MARCH, 2019.
"The visit has been most useful to me for it is the research in small things that changes a Community to do great things in this country," during his visit to Sulabh Gram on March 16, 2000.
DR. RAJA RAMANNA INDIAN PHYSICIST
The Sulabh movement is indeed a reminder and jolt to conscience. It is performing the double task of socially rehabilitating the suffering segment of our society and providing healthy and clean municipal life. It deserves all support.
I.K. GUJRAL FORMER PRIME MINISTER OF INDIA
What Abraham Lincoln did for Blacks in America, Dr. Pathak has done for scavengers in India. Both are great redeemers.
DR. MULK RAJ ANAND A NOTED WRITER
Dr. Pathak’s work is very seminal. It is humane and educative.
I read with great sympathy your account of the situation of the scavengers community, and I congratulate you on the work which you are doing on its behalf. I am sure your International Saint Francis Prize for the Environment was richly deserved.
Sulabh created a low-cost toilet technology that not only helped maintain sanitation but also restored the dignity of millions of “scavengers”, the cleaners of human excreta who are traditionally untouchables. The West’s toilet technology, composed of sewage and septic tanks, was unaffordable for India’s teeming millions. Pathak’s technology relies on two simple pits and sealed covers. While one pit is in use, the other is left to decompose, forming a fertilizer that can be used in agricultural fields. Equally important, human waste no longer requires manual cleansing.
TARUN KHANNA
JORGE PAULO LEHMANN PROFESSOR, HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL IN BILLIONS OF ENTREPRENEURS
Now that the world is shrinking, leaders of the world unite to initiate a global approach to the problems of sanitation and water supply which have also become a tool for social change. In this field, the role of Sulabh International Social Service Organization is crucial. Sulabh is a known name not only in India but also in other countries. I have read about Sulabh and now I know how Sulabh makes things happen.
DR. JAN P. PRONK CHAIRMAN, WATER SUPPLY AND SANITATION COLLABORATIVE COUNCILFor
The centre of Sulabh is everything I imagined and much more. A centre of inspiration, liberation and human vitality. I will remember forever this visit and remain a disciple and willing promotee of their wonderful ideas and activities in an area most people are too shy even to talk about. Nearly everything which works began with an idea and a small group of people committed to work to realize it. Thank you Dr. Pathak and your co-workers for your inspiration and achievements.
SIR RICHARD JOLLY SPECIAL ADVISOR TO THE ADMINISTRATOR UNDP, CHAIRMAN, COLLABORATION COUNCIL FOR DRINKING WATER AND SANITATIONInternational experience in the management of public services shows that delivery of services can be vastly improved if a distinction is made between the ownership of these services (by the government) and the delivery of such services (by private and local enterprises). Thus, a compilation of twenty-four case studies from twelve countries all over the world has concluded that in every case where the management of a public service was contracted out to private groups or enterprises, the distribution and quality of the service improved and the net cost to the public was reduced. In India also, there are successful examples of ‘micro-privatization’ (Such as Sulabh Sauchalayas and Public Call Offices). These initiatives need to be replicated in respect of other services.
Sulabh International showed me a good example during my recent visit to New Delhi. This organization has proved how effective small-scale solutions can be and how they can be extended all over India within a short time span. Thousands of ‘Pay and Use’ public toilet-cum-bath complexes and more than a million pour-flush latrines in private houses have been built (and are maintained) and they are used by more than ten million people everyday. By doing so, Sulabh has restored human dignity and given a new future to thousands of untouchables.
HRH WILLEM-ALEXANDERTHE PRINCE OF ORANGE OF THE NETHERLANDS CHAIRMAN OF THE UNITED NATIONS’ SECRETARYGENERAL’S ADVISORY BOARD OF WATER AND SANITATION (UNSGAB) IN LAUNCH OF INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF SANITATION NEW YORK ON NOVEMBER 21, 2007
BOUTROS-BOUTROS GHALI FORMER SECRETARY GENERAL OF UNITED NATIONS
DR. WALLY N’DOW SECRETARYGENERAL, HABITAT
his social reform movement, Dr. Pathak can be compared to Dayanand Saraswati and Raja Ram Mohan Roy.
DR. KARAN SINGH FORMER UNION MINISTER, DIPLOMAT, GREAT SCHOLAR AND MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT (RAJYA SABHA)
BIMAL JALAN FORMER GOVERNOR OF THE RESERVE BANK OF INDIA
LIST OF UNIVERSITIES
THE SOCIOLOGY OF SANITATION IS BEING TAUGHT IN THE FOLLOWING UNIVERSITIES
1. Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University, Gujarat— Department of Sociology for Graduate, Gujarat.
2. Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University, Gujarat—History Department–History of Sanitation for Graduate, Gujarat.
3. Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University—Department of Sociology for Graduate and Post Graduate, Gujarat.
4. Sardar Patel University, Gujarat—Department of Sociology for Graduate and Post Graduate, Gujarat.
5. Lalit Narayan Mithila University, Darbhanga, Bihar
6. Kumaun University, Nainital, Uttarakhand.
7. Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University, Srinagar, Uttarakhand.
8. Sanitation as Vocational Training at Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Agra, Uttar Pradesh.
9. University of Kashmir, Srinagar.
10. University of Kolhapur, Maharashtra.
11. Mangalore University, Mangalore, Karnataka.
12. Gujarat University, Gujarat for Graduate, Gujarat.
13. Bhakta Kavi Narsinh Mehta University, Gujarat.
14. Saurashtra University, Gujarat—Department of Sociology for Graduate and Post Graduate, Gujarat.
15. Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University, Gujarat for Post Graduate, Gujarat.
16. Shivaji University, Kolhapur, Maharashtra.
17. Bangalore City University, Bangalore, Karnataka.
18. Kannada University Hampi, Karnataka.
19. Kuvempu University, Shimoga , Karnataka.
20. Central University of South Bihar, Bodh Gaya, Bihar.
21. Himalayiya University, Jeevanwala, Dehradun, Uttarakhand.
22. Shri Guru Ram Rai University, Dehradun, Uttarakhand.
23. Uttarakhand Open University, Department of Sociology, Haldwani, Uttarakhand.
24. Uttarakhand Open University, Department of Social Work, Haldwani, Uttarakhand.
25. Rajiv Gandhi University, Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh.
I am the son of the son of Mahatma Gandhi but Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak is the son of his soul. If we were to go to meet Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, he would first greet Dr. Pathak for the noble work that he is doing and then meet me. Dr. Pathak has restored human rights and dignity to people engaged in the manual cleaning of human excreta which they carried as head-load.
PROF. RAJMOHAN GANDHI, University of Illinois USA, visited at Sulabh Sansar, on January 5, 2009
The world’s biggest public toilet complex is at Pandharpur, Maharashtra, which is being constructed by Sulabh with financial help from the Government of Maharashtra. It has 2,858 toilet units in 23 locations along with locker facilities, 24x7 Health Care Centre attended by qualified doctors. There is a provision for toilets for physically challenged and VIPs. About 2 lakh people currently use this facility especially at the time of the events like Ashadi Ekadashi and Kartik Ekadashi. When completed, nearly 4.5 lakh people will be able use the facility. There is no public toilet complex parallel to this in the world.
Hon'ble Shri Narendra Modi puts bricks to a two-pit toilet in Varanasi, on September 23, 2017. He is the first head of the State in the world who took up the cause of sanitation as the mission of his Government.
Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi being shown cleaned and restored historical Assi Ghat, Varanasi