<span style="color: #222222;">President Ram Nath Kovind has said, Swachh Bharat is critical to build a New India. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Inaugurating a four-day Convention on Mahatma Gandhi International Sanitation in New Delhi, he called for achieving Sustainable Development Goals, particularly providing Clean Water and Sanitation. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">He said the absence of suitable toilets, appropriate hygiene and sanitation practices can lead to life-long disadvantages. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The President said about 85 million rural households and six million urban households have begun to use toilets for the first time. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Swachh Bharat has helped them renounce the troubling practice of open defecation. </span><br />''