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When we founded the India Sanitation Coalition at FICCI in 2015, I knew that it was a coalition that was one of a kind in the country and had an important role to play in the sanitation sector of India. Before that, I had a realization that most of the past schemes of the government in sanitation, including the Central Rural Sanitation Programme, were not that successful primarily because of the design, which over-emphasized the supply side of it. Swachh Bharat Mission, announced by the Honourable Prime Minister of India in October 2014, encouraged us to be a coalition in support of the mission and undertake the responsibility of engaging with the government on the one hand and the corporate sector on the other to make sure that the industry's participation in the mission is constantly on the rise. I am glad that ISC, with a multitude of projects in sanitation to its credit covering various aspects of it, has come a long way. I congratulate the ISC Secretariat headed by Ms. Natasha Patel and her team, who have done a lot and are striving to do still better so that India emerges and remains a cleaner and healthier nation for many more years to come.”