Safety measure: A woman sweeping near a toilet provided by Sulabh in the Hirmathala village of Mewat district in Haryana, India. - AFP
KATRA SHAHADATGANJ: Decorated with marigolds and ribbons, 108 toilets unveiled in a tragedy-hit village are a small step in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s push to end open-air defecation for impoverished Indian women.
The spotlessly clean toilets were donated on Sunday to the village in northern Uttar Pradesh, where scared and vulnerable women had long been forced to trek nightly into the fields to relieve themselves.
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