A 20-year-old woman, who left her husband about a year-and-half ago demanding a toilet facility, has been made Betul’s ‘Swachhata Doot’ (cleanliness ambassador).
“We have made Seema Patel the district ‘swachhata doot’ under Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. Work of constructing a toilet at her husband’s place has also started. We are also going to felicitate her for her extraordinary courage,” Betul collector Gyaneshwar B Patil told PTI.
He said that Seema’s action will give a fillip to the Prime Minister’s flagship campaign.
Seema left her 23-year-old husband Mohan Patel’s home at Shahpur block in the district a year-and-half ago.
She had returned to her maternal house at Piparia town in Hoshangabad in January last year saying that she would return to her in-law’s place only after a toilet was build.
Recently, Mohan approached a family counselling centre at Shahpur to reunite with Seema.
The counselling centre member Rajani Gaikwad took a dim view of the matter and after going through it last week, asked Mohan to build a toilet within a month.
After her marriage in May 2012, Seema spent a long time at her in-law’s place and constantly asked them to build a toilet in the house, Ms. Gaikwad said. --PTI
