The Centre on Friday took serious exception to a comment by the United Nation's Special Rapporteur on the right to safe drinking water and sanitation comments who said that the Swachchh Bharat Mission "lacked a holistic human rights approach".
The Government also took exception to leo Heller's reference to Mahatma Gandhi's spectacles in the mission's logo, and his "rambling" report containing "inaccuracies, sweeping generalisations and biases".
"In the last two weeks I have visited rural and urban areas, slums and settlement camps where undocumented population is residing... And I have found that these initiatives lack a more human rights approach," he had said to the reporters here.
Taking strong note of his remarks on the logo of the Clean India Mission, the Government issued a statement deploring that it showed "serious insensitivity towards the Father of the Nation". The Government statement said the world knows that Mahatma was the foremost proponent of human rights.