Name: Swapnil Chaturvedi

Vote Count: 163

Source of Information: I read about Swapnil Chaturvedi in the local Mumbai newspapers.

Category: Improving Sanitation

Reason(s) for Nomination: Swapnil Chaturvedi has actively been promoting community toilets and the development of low-cost sanitation options for poor and underprivileged slum populations long before Swachh Bharat became a buzzword. Thanks to the tireless efforts of this software engineer who quit his comfortable US-based job to become a sanitation activist, each day more than 1.5 lakh people living in more than a hundred slums across Pune, Maharashtra, use over 3,000 community toilets developed by Swapnil Chaturvedi.