U.S. Ambassador to India, Richard R. Verma, will visit Sulabh International Social Service Organization on Thursday and meet social activist Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak, who has received several national and international awards for his pioneering efforts in the field of sanitation in India.
Sulabh, which employs over 50,000 people, has constructed nearly 1.3 million household toilets and 54 million government funded ones, with nearly 15 million people using toilets based on the Sulabh design.
Ambassador Verma will view a sanitation demonstration Sulabh's 'water ATM' and the bio-gas plant that runs on the byproducts of Sulabh toilets.