{"id":8465,"date":"2023-08-15T11:53:34","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T10:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/sulabh-founder-bindeshwar-pathak-sanitation-pioneer-dies-at-delhi-hospital\/%e0%a4%8f%e0%a4%95%e0%a5%8d%e0%a4%b8%e0%a4%95%e0%a5%8d%e0%a4%b2%e0%a5%82%e0%a4%b8%e0%a4%bf%e0%a4%b5\/"},"modified":"2023-08-15T11:53:34","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T10:53:34","slug":"sulabh-founder-bindeshwar-pathak-sanitation-pioneer-dies-at-delhi-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/?p=8465","title":{"rendered":"Sulabh Founder Bindeshwar Pathak, Sanitation Pioneer, Dies At Delhi Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" id=\"ins_storybody\"><!-- \n\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"sp-cn ins_storybody\" id=\"ins_storybody\">--><\/p>\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv\">\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv_cont\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Sulabh Founder Bindeshwar Pathak, Sanitation Pioneer, Dies At Delhi Hospital\" alt=\"Sulabh Founder Bindeshwar Pathak, Sanitation Pioneer, Dies At Delhi Hospital\" id=\"story_image_main\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ndtvimg.com\/i\/2016-07\/bindeshwar-pathak_650x400_61469204523.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Social activist and founder of &#8216;Sulabh International&#8217; Bindeshwar Pathak, who campaigned extensively to alleviate the plight of manual scavengers, died at a Delhi hospital on Tuesday. He was 80.<\/p>\n<p>Sulabh has constructed nearly 1.3 million household toilets and 54 million government toilets using cheap, two-pit technology.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from construction of toilets, the organisation has led a movement to discourage manual cleaning of human waste.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers have passed several laws aiming to stamp out the age-old practice of manual scavenging, the latest in 2013. But many scavengers are still used through subcontractors.<\/p>\n<p>The men are called &#8220;manual scavengers&#8221; because they mainly scrape the waste with their bare hands without any protective gear or masks, a practice Bindeshwar Pathak termed &#8220;demeaning&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/india-news\/sulabh-founder-bindeshwar-pathak-pioneer-in-building-public-toilets-dies-at-delhi-hospital-4299943\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Social activist and founder of &#8216;Sulabh International&#8217; Bindeshwar Pathak, who campaigned extensively to alleviate the plight of manual scavengers, died at a Delhi hospital on Tuesday. He was 80. Sulabh has constructed nearly 1.3 million household toilets and 54 million government toilets using cheap, two-pit technology. Apart from construction of toilets, the organisation has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}