ISAS Special Reports

Everyone from Narendra Modi to the New York Times has pointed well-washed fingers at the sorry state of public sanitation and waste management in India. In his Independence Day speech on 15 August 2014, Prime Minister Modi vowed to create a Clean India, a Swachh Bharat, in which girls’ school would have usable toilets, the Ganga would be clean, rubbish would be cleared and pan stains would not mark the stairwells of public buildings.