Daily Wage Worker Learns The Importance Of Hygiene Sells Goat and Wifes Anklet To Build A Toilet

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Daily Wage Worker Learns The Importance Of Hygiene Sells Goat and Wifes Anklet To Build A Toilet


A daily wager in Rajasthan's Dungarpur sold one of his goats and mortgaged his wife's silver anklet to raise Rs 9,000 for building a toilet.



He learnt the importance of hygiene

After some social workers campaigning for the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan reached out to Kantilal Roat's family on the importance of hygiene, and the risks of open defecation, he got down to building a toilet. The activists had also told Roat he would get Rs 12,000.

He received the first two instalments of Rs 4,000 each, but ran out of money while the construction was still under way. This is when he sold one of his seven goats and the anklet. "The goat fetched me Rs 5,000 while we got Rs 4,000 for the anklet, which my wife had received as a wedding gift from her parents," said Roat. His mother said she understood the hardships her two daughters-in-law faced while defecating in the open.

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She added "Even if it meant mortgaging our hut, I would have willingly done so for their honour and dignity"

Dungarpur municipal corporation chairman K K Gupta felicitated the family for the feat, and released the last instalment of Rs 4,000. To Roat's surprise, he was also awarded Rs 4,000 to get the anklet back.

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