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Many voices were heard after the Prime Minister of India in his extempore speech on the 15th August 2014 on Independence Day spoke of 'Swachh Bharat'. Independence Day speech of the Prime Minister of India carries a message not only for the countrymen but is also a statement to the international community too, being widely reported across the world. The message in the speech was loud and clear. On Mahatma Gandhi's birthday i.e. 2nd October 2014, the campaign was launched with much fanfare. Mahatma Gandhi whom the nation had relegated to archives, came alive on his birthday this year.
And why our public spirited men and women should sweep only ’symbolically’; why not as a daily routine, if they took the pledge to clean India in earnest and with conviction.
Swachh Bharat scheme is launched with Mahatma Gandhi as its inspiration.
This essay contains several thoughts and anecdotes from Gandhi’s life, extracted from several books, including his Autobiography.
The first glimpse of Gandhi’s rejection of Hindu orthodoxy finds mention in his Autobiography, when he questions his mother, who forbade him to touch an 'untouchable'.
While defending Indians against false propaganda, he accepted such criticisms, which in his opinion were true. He spoke to the Indian community on the urgent need to improve their public image on sanitation and untouchability. It was further alleged that the indentured Indians who had migrated and settled in Natal were pariahs in their own country; the poor, the downtrodden and of low caste. If their own countrymen treated them as pariahs, why they should seek parity in an alien ? “The truth burst upon his mind with the force of revelation that so long as India allowed a section of her people to be treated as pariahs, so long must be her sons prepared to be treated as pariahs abroad. To destroy the twin evil of untouchability and insanitation became his passion. So seared was his soul that as a token of expiation for the treatment meted out to the outcastes, he ultimately took to scavenging, declaring that India’s independence could wait but not the eradication of the curse of untouchability." Writes Pyarelal in his biography of Gandhi. (Reference: Mahatma Gandhi Volume 1 Page 478)
Gandhiji records, "The charge had often been made that the Indian was slovenly in his habits and did not keep his house and surroundings clean. . . . But I had some bitter experiences. I saw that I could not so easily count on the help of the community in getting it to do its own duty, as I could in claiming for it rights. At some places I met with insults, at other with polite indifference. It was too much for people to bestir themselves to keep their surroundings clean. To expect them to find money for the work was out of the question. These experiences taught me, better than ever before, that without infinite patience it was impossible to get the people to do any work. It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence and even mortal persecution." (Reference Chapter XI of Part 3 of Autobiography)
When plague broke out in Johannesburg in the Indian settlement, the municipal authorities were furious and in panic. It was no ordinary plague; it was the deadliest plague known then, the Black or pneumonic plague. The twenty three affected Indians were moved to a vacant house by an Indian worker. He informed Gandhi of the outbreak of plague. Gandhiji on hearing cycled to the location and took charge of the patients. A European nurse who was attending the patients recalls," ...in the evening, a small figure appeared at the door. She shouted, Get out. This is plague. But the man (Gandhi) quietly replied, "It is alright. I have come to help."
Gandhiji along with his associates nursed the patients risking their lives. The severity of the plague could be gauged by the fact that all but two died in a couple of days. Two could be saved who were treated by Gandhiji on mud therapy. Seeing his fearlessness and devotion some Europeans also joined with Gandhi for nursing the patients, being fully aware that their lives were in real danger. The cause of the plague was attributed to the neglect of sanitation by the Indians but in this case heavy responsibility lay at the doorstep of the Municipality too.
Gandhiji did not seek any publicity for the public works that he undertook in his life; for him 'service to humanity was service to God'.