SANITATION AND HYGIENE FACILITIES ARE ESSENTIAL FOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GOOD HEALTH
‘Clean India: Clean Environment’. A key feature of the campaign is to ensure that every locality either in rural or urban in India has a set of functioning and well maintained water, sanitation and hygiene facilities.Sanitation is essential for achievementof health and promotion of human dignity. Improved sanitation is a basic human right. Exposure to faecal pathogens including rotavirus,pathogenic strains of Escherichia coli, Vibrio cholerae, Shigellaspp, and Salmonellaenterica serotype Typhi, hepatitisE virus, and soil-transmitted helminths can precipitate serious human illness.So necessary efforts have to be taken to reduce exposure to human faeces through improvement of sanitation particularly in low-income communities and rural population for the improvement of health.  Therelative importance of sanitation in the interruption of pathogen transmission almost certainly varies bycommunity. In some communities, water contaminated from a distant source; food contaminated in agricultural fields, in markets, or during commercial preparation; or hands contaminated through cleaning up of children who defecated, handling of animal manure, or contact with contaminated food are likely prominent pathways of enteric pathogen transmission that would be immediately interrupted by improvements in household sanitary infrastructure of clinical management.