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Image: Sudarsan Pattnaik Twitter page

Puri: Sudarsan Pattnaik creates 'World Toilet Day' sand art, PM Modi appreciates him

India Blooms News Service | @indiablooms | Nov 19, 2018, at 06:45 pm

Puri, Nov 19 (IBNS): Popular sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik on Monday created a sand art here to mark World Toilet Day which also earned the appreciation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Besides creating a huge sand toilet, the artist specifically wrote the 9 crore figure in his art to highlight the number of toilets built under the cleanliness mission since its launch by the Indian government in 2014.

Sharing the image, Sudarsan tweeted: "#WorldToiletDay My SandArt with message 'Swachh Bharat Mission' at puri beach in Odisha."

#WorldToiletDay My SandArt with message "Swachh Bharat Mission” at puri beach in Odisha . pic.twitter.com/dfxsEJ9jxZ
— Sudarsan Pattnaik (@sudarsansand) November 18, 2018

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who launched the campaign in 2014 with a target to make the country Open Defecation Free (ODF) on Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary (October 2019), was prompt in sharing the images on his Twitter page with a caption that read: "The movement for a cleaner India and ensuring better sanitation facilities is a people’s movement. It is the 130 crore Indians, particularly women and youngsters who have taken the lead in this movement. I congratulate all those working to fulfil the dream of a Swachh Bharat."

The movement for a cleaner India and ensuring better sanitation facilities is a people’s movement.

It is the 130 crore Indians, particularly women and youngsters who have taken the lead in this movement.

I congratulate all those working to fulfil the dream of a Swachh Bharat. https://t.co/2a6wzwzV44
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) November 19, 2018

#WorldToiletDay #SudarsanPattnaik #NarendraModi

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