Important Days World Toilet Day - November 19 World Toilet Day is celebrated on November 19 every year to raise awareness about people living without access to safely managed sanitation and initiate action to tackle the global sanitation crisis. The United Nations aims to explore how poor sanitation systems spread human waste into rivers, lakes and soil, polluting underground water resources. The UN General Assembly declared World Toilet Day an official UN day in 2013 after Singapore had tabled the resolution. It is the same day the World Toilet Organization came into existence in 2001. Under PM Modi's flagship program "Swachh Bharat Mission" the nation saw an acceleration in the efforts to achieve universal sanitation coverage and to put the focus on sanitation. Under the mission, by 2 October 2019, all villages, gram panchayats, districts, states, and union territories in India declared themselves "open-defecation free" (ODF). Eminent Persons Rani Lakshmibai (November 1835 - June1858) Maharani Laxmibai is regarded as one of the leading figures of India’s rebellion in 1857 against the British, which is also referred to as the first war of independence. She was also known to have fiercely guarded Jhansi against the British till her death in 1858. About her life She was born in 1835 in Varanasi. She was initially named Manikarnika Tambe. She was married to Gangadhar Rao Newalkar, the Maharaja of Jhansi, in 1842. The East India Company took advantage of the Maharaja's death and applied the Doctrine of Lapse. As per Doctrine of Lapse, any princely state under the direct or indirect control of the East India Company where the ruler did not have a legal male heir would be annexed by the company. She was determined to not give up on the Dominion of Jhansi and started assembling an army of rebellions, including…
