PM Modi To Talk About Ending Open Defecation At Global Festival


NEW YORK: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will highlight the need to bring an end to open defecation during an event New York that will be attended by over a dozen world leaders including UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.

Organizers of the Global Citizen Festival said Modi will be attending the event on September 27 because he is dedicated to bringing an end to open defecation.

“Modi is coming to the festival because he is dedicated to helping people to see that using toilets is safer and cleaner than defecating in the open,” the organization said.

Modi will be among the dozen world leaders, who will be attending the free ticketed event that will be held in the Great Lawn of the Central Park, a sprawling green island in the middle of concrete Manhattan.

The event will be hosted by actors Hugh Jackman, Jessica Alba and Katie Holmes and feature performances by music icon Jay Z.

Other global leaders who will be attending the festival include Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, Prime Minister of Norway Erna Solberg and Prime Minister of Nepal Sushil Koirala.

The festival organisers said that the dignitaries will participate in the festival to “voice tangible commitments that could affect the lives of 50 million people.”

Source: PTI