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Write a short note on Sulabh International.

● Sulabh International is a social organization based in India which works for the promotion of environmental sanitation, nonconventional energy use, waste management, human rights and social reforms through education.


● It was founded by Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak in 1970.


● Currently it has 50,000 volunteers.


● It sets up pay and use the toilet with bath and laundry facilities.


● It is used by 10 million people each day.


● They are also called Sulabh complex.


● Most of the people using these complex belonging to the working class.


● Currently, there are 7500 public toilet block and 1.2 million private toilets.


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