From demolitions to toilets for show: How Indore won Swachh Bharat top rank
In November last year Indore Municipal Corporation (IMC) officials moved around in the city in twos or threes to ensure that every household without a personal toilet was enumerated. Nanjubai’s house was one among 40 – all belonging to the Bhil community – built on one end of the Sukhniwas road. An official meeting was called with all the residents, details collected from each household and the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan scheme explained. At the end, Nanjubai and the others were informed that they would have to pay about Rs 1,360 within a week – the subsidised amount to be paid to get a toilet built under the scheme. For Nanjubai, a 22-year-old mother of four whose husband works as a daily-wage labourer, this was a hefty sum.
But a separate toilet also seemed like a gateway to a dignified life in the future. “I was excited that I would soon be able to use a personal toilet and would not have to worry about using open spaces during the night time or even walk a kilometre to use a public toilet. My house would have its own.�
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