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Lal Bahadur Shastri National Award
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- The President of India presented the 18th Lal Bahadur Shastri National Award for Excellence in Public Administration, Academics and Management for the year 2017 to Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak.
- Bindeshwar Pathak is the founder of Sulabh International, a Social Service Organization. He has developed and implemented, on a pan India scale, a low cost and appropriate toilet technology popularly known as the Sulabh Shauchalaya system.
- The Mayor of New York had declared April 14, 2016 as the ‘Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak International Day’ in recognition of his contribution immensely in the direction of getting rid of the practice of manual scavenging.
- He also received the Padma Bhushan in 1991.
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