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Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak, the Founder of Sulabh International Social Service Organisation, a pioneering non-profit voluntary organisation (NGO) in the field of Sanitation in India, set up of a museum of toilets in the sprawling campus of his central office at Mahavir Enclave, Palam Dabri Road in New Delhi, India. He is an quite an authority on world sanitation and has consultative status with Economic and Social Council of the U.N. Dr. Pathak searched worldwide for details of the evolution of toilets, and also on the various toilet designs used in different countries at different points of time. His museum has the following objectives:

1. To educate students about the historical trends in the development of toilets;
2. To provide information to researchers about the design, materials, and technologies adopted in the past and those in use in the contemporary world;
3. To help policy makers to understand the efforts made by predecessors in this field throughout the world;
4. To help the manufacturers of toilet equipment and accessories in improving their products by functioning as a technology storehouse; and
5. To help sanitation experts learn from the past and solve problems in the sanitation sector.