Gandhiji and Sanitation
• Gandhiji considered cleanliness as a personal duty. According to him, cleanliness it is an indispensable part of life and it is not an isolated act.
It is the duty of every person to not only maintain cleanliness personally but also to follow the value of cleanliness in public life.
Gandhiji was opposed to the point of Europeans that Indians are dirty by nature. He considered the life of the Indians to be more responsible for the uncleanliness in India.
Gandhiji himself tried to prove that this was not an untouchable work by carrying on his head and he tried to improve the standard of living of the sweepers at the institutional level also.
Gandhiji laid great emphasis on internal purity and believed that external filth spreads only due to internal uncleanliness.
