Charmme Kaur walks for hygiene
A 2 km Walk was organised from Jalavihar to People’s Plaza on World Toilet Day on Thursday. Flagging off the walk, actress Charmme Kaur said, “We have Mother’s Day, Valentine’s Day and others. However, the World Toilet Day is more important than all these days. Sanitation is a serious issue.”
A 2 km Walk was organised from Jalavihar to People’s Plaza on World Toilet Day on Thursday. Flagging off the walk, actress Charmme Kaur said, “We have Mother’s Day, Valentine’s Day and others. However, the World Toilet Day is more important than all these days. Sanitation is a serious issue.”
The social service organisation, Sulabh International organised the walk to spread awareness on the sanitation situation of the country and for the Prime Minister’s dream to provide toilets to each household by 2019.
Speaking on the occasion, PC Gupta, controller of Sulabh said that every year World Toilet Day is celebrated in order to educate people about their human right of having clean drinking water and sanitation. “We are also educating schools, communities in rural areas of India and asking people to come forward to construct a toilet in their houses,” he said.
“Sanitation is a human right. It brings dignity, equality and safety. It is vital for good health. It sustains clean environment. Through this walk we would like to tell people to use toilet and prevent disease,” he added.
The event highlighted the relationship between nutrition and sanitation, giving emphasis on the importance of toilets to support adequate nutrition and better health. Statists reveal that about 2.4 billion people worldwide lack access to decent sanitation with one billion still defecating in the open.
Patients suffering from water borne diseases occupy over half of the hospital beds in the developing world and 1,400 children die every day from dehydration caused by diarrhea.
The walk was commemorated with slogans like “Make India Clean India”, “Sanitation is a Religion” and “Toilet for all”.
