Meet Sangeeta Devi from Jharkhand's Pratappur who took loan to build toilet in her home
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Meet Sangeeta Devi from Jharkhand’s Pratappur who took loan to build toilet in her home

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s clarion name for a Swachh Bharat had such a serious influence on Sangeeta Devi of Pratappur, Jharkhand that she did not hesitate to take a mortgage to construct a bathroom in her dwelling.

Such has been the concentrate on utilization of bogs, which is carefully linked to the PM’s name for a Swachh Bharat, for girls like Sangeeta Devi in rural Jharkhand, that they’ve constructed bogs of their village in opposition to all odds. These ladies have taken pledge of ‘SWACCHTA ELAN’to make sure good sanitation of their communities.

Villagers of Pratappur in Jharkhand determined to place an finish to open defecation by constructing bogs. Credit additionally goes to the notice programe ‘Main Kuch Bhi Kar Sakti Hoon’ that offered the a lot wanted impetus to those villagers.

Main Kuch Bhi Kar Sakti Hoon (MKBKSH) or “I, A Woman, Can Achieve Anything” is an edutainment initiative launched by the Population Foundation of India (PFI). Through the edutainment initiative, the makers wish to spotlight the socital and and cultural norms round Indian households and educate the folks on the identical.

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On On World Toilet Day (November 17), PM Modi had tweeted that the nation strengthens its resolve of Toilet for all.

In a tweet Shri Modi stated “On World Toilet Day, India strengthens its resolve of #Toilet4All. The last few years have seen an unparalleled achievement of providing hygienic toilets to crores of Indians. It has brought tremendous health benefits along with dignity, especially to our Nari Shakti.”

Sangeeta Devi stated that earlier the ladies needed to go just a little additional away from the village to defecate in teams and it will be very tough, significantly in the course of the wet season. 

She then mentioned this difficulty along with her husband and requested him to make a bathroom for her. However, she and her husband did not have cash for constructing the bathroom. Hence Sangeeta Devi used all her my financial savings and even borrowed cash from others to construct the bathroom. Despite being mocked at for taking taking a mortgage to construct a bathroom, she was agency in her resolve and the end result was for everybody to see.

Gradually, others within the village — 40-year-old Sheela Devi, 13-year-old Monu Kumar — additionally understood the significance of bogs and unfold consciousness within the village so that everybody would construct bogs of their properties.

Poonam Muttreja, Executive Director, Population Foundation of India stated that she may be very glad that MKBKSH has turn out to be a trendsetter in utilizing revolutionary communication strategies to vary behaviours. .

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