Bindeshwar Pathak: India’s ‘Toilet Man’ who made urinating safely a reality

By Geeta Pandey and Zoya Mateen BBC News, Delhi Campaigner and social reformer Bindeshwar Pathak who died on Tuesday, aged 80, was a man who revolutionised the concept of toilets in India. In the early 1970s, he made a cheap twin-pit toilet – a design which has since been used to build clean toilets in…

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IAS Conclave 2023: প্রধান অতিথির আসনে সমাজকর্মী ও পুরাণবিদ, আমলাদের সম্মেলনে কী নিয়ে আলোচনা?

Produced by Abhisek Roychowdhury | EiSamay.Com | Updated: 24 Jul 2023, 11:29 pm ছত্তিশগড়ের রায়পুরে ফের বসল IAS কনক্লেভ। দেশের আমলাদের এই সম্মেলনে ছিলেন কারা? কী নিয়েই বা হল আলোচনা? হদিশ দিল ‘এই সময় ডিজিটাল’।   Source : https://eisamay.com/photo-gallery/news/ias-conclave-2023-is-going-on-third-consecutive-year-in-raipur-chhattisgarh-here-are-photos/photoshow/msid-102088289,picid-102088295.cms

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GANDHI, AHIMSA, HARIJANS AND PIT LATRINES

GANDHI, AHIMSA, HARIJANS AND PIT LATRINES How Bindeshwar Pathak turns excrement into riches By Alleyn Diesel Published in The Witness, 12 July, 2023 Who would expect attendance at the GMK – Gandhi, Mandela, King – Conference in June would lead to pondering the significance of excrement in our world reeling with conflict, intolerance, desecration, and…

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Sulabh Swachhta Diwas

Dr Bindeshwar Pathak along with Sulabh family celebrates the birth anniversary of the Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, September 17, 2021 as #SulabhSwachhtaDiwas2021” at Sulabh campus, New Delhi. The occasion came to a start with the lighting of the ceremonial lamp by the distinguished Guest Hon’ble Prof. Rakesh Sinha ji, MP, Rajya Sabha. Sulabh’s special…

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