Jairam Ramesh Quotes

I think toilets are more important than temples.

Cleanliness and sanitation were closest to Gandhiji's heart. We will launch a 'Clean India' campaign and by Gandhiji's 150th birth anniversary, all schools in the country should have toilets with separate toilets for girls.

Water and sanitation has not had the same kind of champion that global health, and even education, have had.

Cleanliness is a good thing, which the society should embrace. But it has nothing to do with Modi, nor can he implement it.

When I was growing up, hand washing was a ritual, but now it's a necessity. A child dies every 15 seconds from preventable causes, which has got to stop.

Rules governing defecation, hygiene, and pollution exist in every culture at every period in history. It may in fact be the foundation of civilization: What is toilet training if not the first attempt to turn a child into an acceptable member of society?

When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.

Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.

Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery.

Hygiene is two thirds of health.

In India, more people have cell phones than access to a toilet

I think hygiene is so important.

I have stayed in homes that didn't have basic infrastructure such as proper washrooms.

Health and hygiene are a basic personal need for all.

People have to clearly see the connection between their family's health and their sanitation habits.

Sanitation and cleanliness are among the humblest of the civic virtues, and it is easy to underestimate their significance.

The humble latrine, or flush toilet, reduces disease by twice as much as just putting in clean water.

Conservation of national sanitation is Swaraj work and it may not be postponed for a single day on any consideration whatsoever.

Cleanliness drive is something that has touched every Indian.

Mahatma Gandhi never compromised on cleanliness. He gave us freedom. We should give him a clean India.

Last year I spoke about Clean India and open defecation, it was criticised then but that has been the main point with which the government has touched the lives of the people.

The less we think or know about hygiene, the less we are predisposed to sickness.

Some of the [Indian] national [sanitation] habits are beyond description, and yet so ingrained as to defy all human effort [to reform.]

I have a bath every month whether I need it or not.

Disease is largely a removable evil. It continues to afflict humanity, not only because of incomplete knowledge of its causes and lack of individual and public hygiene, but also because it is extensively fostered by harsh economic and industrial conditions and by wretched housing in congested communities.