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'Total sanitation' drive (Editorial) [1]

President Pratibha Patil recently issued a clarion call for implementing the "total cleanliness mission" in all villages by 2012, saying that sanitation was a key issue. Nearly 250 crore people in the world, most in the Third World, lacked this facility and that the international community, including the UN, was taking steps to motivate people to go in for complete sanitation, she noted.

Publication Date: 
10/11/2008
Dhurjati Mukherjee [2]
Central Chronicle (Bhopal) [3]
Tags:
Sanitation [4], Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan (Total Sanitation Campaign) [5], WHO [6], India [7], South Asia [8]

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