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Watch: PM Modi Lauds 104-Yr-Old Woman Who Sold Her Goats To Build Toilet, Touches Her Feet

Darpan News Desk IANS, 21 Feb, 2016 02:01 PM
    In a rare gesture, Prime Minister Naredra Modi who has vowed for a clean India with ‘Swach Bharat Campaign’ on Sunday was seen touching feet of a 104-yr-old woman who sold her goats to build toilets.
     
    Modi felicitated Kunwar Bai from Kotabharri village of Dhamtari for her efforts to make her village open defecation free, during the launch of ‘Rurban Mission’ at Kurrubhat village in the state’s Naxal-hit Rajandgaon district.
     
    Two development blocks – Ambagarh Chowki and Chhuriya – of Rajnandgaon were also declared open defecation free by the PM during the programme.
     
    “An elderly woman of 104 years who stays in a remote village, does not watch TV or read papers, but the message of building toilets under clean India mission somehow reached her. She sold off her goats to build toilet at home and also encouraged others from the village to build,” Modi said.
     
    Kunwar Bai had sold-off her 8-10 goats to build two toilets at her home.
     
    Subsequently, she started showing other villagers the toilets at her home while informing them about its importance. Now every home in the village has toilets.
     
    Calling it as a major change taking place at the roots of the country, Modi said, “The country is changing. It seems when a woman at a remote village makes efforts to fulfil dream of clean India mission, she is an inspiration for everyone, especially youths.”
     
    “I would like to tell media that you don’t cover me but spread the story of this woman all over the country,” the PM urged.

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