My Visit - 1st October 2015
The Institute was born in 1985 out of its mother NGO, Safai Vidyalaya (“sanitation institute”), under the leadership of Padmashri Ishwarbhai Patel.
Aimed at rapid demonstration and dissemination of non-conventional appropriate sanitation technologies the exhibition park includes life-size and miniature models, pilot plants, gadgets, posters and charts.
Passion to change the current poor national and global sanitation situation stems from the Gandhian philosophy of eradication of untouchability.
Facilities - Administration Area, Classrooms, Library and Resource/Computer Center, Multi Purpose Hall, VIP Guest House, Dormitory, Faculty House, Worker’s Quarters
“I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.” - Mahatma Gandhi**,** June 1st, 1921