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Spiritual leader and Art of Living Founder Sri Sri Ravi Shankar urges people to focus on proper Toilets and Sanitation

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New Delhi, Feb 3, 2017: Spiritual leader and Art of Living Founder Sri Sri Ravi Shankar on Thursday urged people to focus on proper toilets and sanitation to make society disease-free.

"People need to focus on toilets for the sake of living a healthy life and ward off diseases," said Ravi Shankar.

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On a visit to Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) Sulabh International here – – which has the popular Toilet Museum describing good toilet systems across the world — he also urged people in the rural areas to join hands in making India cleaner and open defecation-free.

"By doing so, pay a befitting tribute to Mahatma Gandhi on his 150th birth anniversary on October 2," he said.

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Sulabh International has been providing sanitation solutions to the poor across the country to support Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "Swachhh Bharat" mission, and other urban development initiatives.

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Sulabh International founder Bindeshwar Pathak said : "There is a need to have more such movements to achieve the goal of total sanitation". (IANS)

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