Prakash Javdekar on Cleanathon: While in environment ministry, I came up with many waste management rules. By the time I joined the HRD ministry, the campaign had become a public movement, with schools participating and some 6000 colleges that have participated in the campaign. We have also started scholarship for colleges to work in the villages and spread the message of safe sanitation.

Narasimhan Eswar of RB: We have with the help of the Government of Maharashtra, we have set up Harpic World Toilet College. We recruit manual scavengers and we ask them to go through a three week course in which we teach them how to clean drains with the help of machines without getting inside the drains and in these three weeks they are also paid a stipend equivalent of the money they usually make. They are also given training on soft skills.

Shaina NC, BJP Leader: Dignity of labour - we all talk about it, inhumane labour is simply not acceptable. Our government is very clear whether it is sanitation or manual scavenging, we are trying to cover all aspects.