Tribal man sells goat and wife's gold to build toilet

A Rajasthani tribal man in Dungarpur sold his goat and mortgaged his wife's ornaments to construct a toilet in his house.

A daily wager, Kanti Lal Rot who lives with his mother, wife, children and his brother's widow, in a thatched house, was inspired by PM Narendra Modi's Swachh Bharat Abhiyan after he was informed about the campaign by local activists.

The activists convinced him to construct a toilet in his house.

He was told that he will get ₹4000 each from the centre, the state government and from the municipality if he constructed a toilet in his house.

"He started digging work all by himself and constructed a structure with the help of some labourers after he got the first instalment. The amount he got was spent in construction work. When he had no money to pay labourers, he sold one of the goats for ₹5000 and mortgaged his wife's silver ornaments," said K K Gupta, vice-chairman of Dungarpur Municipality.

Gupta visited the family today after he came to know that he had to sell his goat to make the payment for toilet construction to labourers and praised him.

He also gave him ₹4000 to get back the mortgaged ornaments and felicitated him.