Badaun: NGO Sulabh International on Sunday handed over 108 “low cost” toilets to villagers at Katra Sadatganj in Badaun and adopted the hamlet as model village for a nationwide ‘Toilets for Every House’ campaign. The sanitation drive was launched in the wake of alleged gangrape and murder of two sisters in Katra in May.
Starting the campaign, voluntary organisation Sulabh International opened ‘Sulabh (low-cost) toilets’ to the public at a function in the village, as a tribute to the two cousin sisters, the victims. Absence of toilet in a house is responsible for incidents of rapes and sexual assaults in villages,” Sulabh founder Bindeshwar Pathak said.
Non-availability of toilets in the village made the two sisters go out in the open at night to attend the call of nature, when they were allegedly raped and murdered and the bodies hanged from a tree.
He said that Sulabh has already adopted the village in memory of the two girls.
Each toilet has two 100 feet deep waste collection tanks. Singh said for a family of five one tank would take around 8 years to fill after which the second would come into use. By the time the second is full, waste in the first tank would have turned to biomass that could be used in fields as fertilizer.
Bureau Report
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