L N Mithila Univ to introduce sanitation in curriculum

Considering importance of sanitation, Bihar's L N Mithila University has said it would include the subject in its curriculum.
Vice Chancellor Saket Kushwaha said at a function here yessterday that the university would take steps to include sanitation as a subject from next academic session.
The VC announcement came after well known social worker and founder of sulabh movement Bindeshwar Pathak stressed the need of the study of sociology of sanitation.
While supporting the need of more attention towards Sanitation, the VC said such a course would help to open new avenues of employment.
Delivering a lecture on the subject "Sociology of Sanitation" in the university, Pathak observed that there is a huge potential in this sector.

He informed that a university in Bhavnagar in Gujarat has recently introduced this subject as a part of sociology course at graduate level and urged sociologists to incorporate it in the curriculum to attract more students.
Later, the VC and sulabh founder shared food with liberated manual scavenger women who were treated as "untouchables" to give a strong social message to the society.
The VC invited these women from Rajasthan for dinner at the historic European guest house which is now known as Gandhi Sadan where Gandhijee spent two nights in 1934.