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The globality of Swachh Bharat

Having started out as a home-grown initiative, the Swachh Bharat Mission now has the potential to branch out globally and trigger a sanitation revolution worldwide

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Parameswaran Iyer
October 2 this year is the 149th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi and also the fourth anniversary of the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM). India is hosting major stakeholders of global sanitation — ministers of sanitation from over 50 countries, heads of various multilateral organisations, led by the secretary general of the United Nations, and experts and policymakers in the field from around the world — at the Mahatma Gandhi International Sanitation Convention or MGISC (from September 29 to October 2) in Delhi.

The MGISC promises to be one of the largest and most high-profile global gatherings on sanitation, with countries
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