Sulabh Swachh Bharat | GANDHI AND ME

Two historic movements were initiated in Champaran, Bihar. The first was that of Mahatma Gandhi’s satyagraha against the plight of the indigo farmers in 1917, which marked the beginning of the freedom movement based on people’s involvement. It was also the beginning of the Gandhian era in Indian politics and history. Half-a-century later, Dr Bindeshwar Pathak started another historic movement in Champaran, that of Swachh Bharat, to end manual scavenging and to re-integrate a class of Indian society which was reduced to a subhuman status. Dr Pathak, interestingly, was carrying the Gandhian baton of social transformation of the most oppressed and deprived class in the country, and he chose Champaran as the battlefield of his war against social exploitation.

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