Sulabh International Social Service Organisation was honoured with the “Navbharat ke Nav Ratna Samman 2025 – Lifetime Achievement Award” in the field of social service at the prestigious NBT Utsav 2025, held at the NDMC Convention Centre, New Delhi. The event marked the 78th anniversary of Navbharat Times, one of India’s leading Hindi dailies. The…
Lucknow, April 20, 2025 — In a heartfelt tribute to the legacy of Dr Bindeshwar Pathak, founder of Sulabh International, Union Defence Minister Hon’ble Shri Rajnath Singh unveiled his statue and inaugurated a road named in his honor in the Aliganj area of Lucknow. The ceremony celebrated Dr Pathak’s monumental contributions to sanitation, social reform,…
Honouring a Visionary Who Transformed Sanitation in India On April 2, 2025, Sulabh International proudly marked the 82nd birth anniversary of its revered founder, recipient of Padma Vibhushan – Dr Bindeshwar Pathak, with the inauguration of Dr Bindeshwar Pathak Memorial Centre and the inauguration of his statue at Sulabh Gram, New Delhi. The inauguration ceremony…
Patna, March 17, 2025: Dr Bindeshwar Pathak was posthumously awarded the ‘Champions of Change Bihar’ at a prestigious ceremony held at Gyan Bhawan, Patna. The award was presented to Dr Pathak in recognition of his outstanding contributions to social welfare and sanitation. Shri Kumar Dilip, President of Sulabh International, received the award on behalf of…
Delhi, March 11, 2025: Sulabh International announced a strategic partnership with Swiggy, India’s leading on-demand convenience platform, unveiled at the Swiggy Sustainability Summit 2025. This collaboration aims to provide Swiggy’s delivery partners in key cities—Delhi NCR, Mumbai, Thane, Pune, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, and Chennai—with free access to Sulabh Shauchalayas (public toilets), enhancing their working conditions and…
Opinion | Being Dr Bindeshwar Pathak in India, the World’s Largest Democracy Written By: Atul K Thakur News18.com /Last Updated: AUGUST 28, 2023 / New Delhi, India Dr Pathak was a social revolutionary who single-handedly made the strides to end the ill practice of manual scavenging, further expanding the movement to cleanliness, sanitation and effective water management…
India’s Sulabh man is no more The founder of Sulabh International, one of India’s best social service organisations, has died of a heart attack. His organisation was at the forefront of eradicating manual scavenging and setting up clean, economic sanitation across the country August 19, 2023 By India Legal Bureau On India’s 77th Independence Day,…
By Geeta Pandey and Zoya Mateen BBC News, Delhi Campaigner and social reformer Bindeshwar Pathak who died on Tuesday, aged 80, was a man who revolutionised the concept of toilets in India. In the early 1970s, he made a cheap twin-pit toilet – a design which has since been used to build clean toilets in…
