The Hindu, 01 September 2014
LUCKNOW: It’s a tribute to two girls who were gruesomely killed, says NGO
Taking a cue from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Independence Day speech, Sulabh International on Sunday kick-started its nationwide ‘Toilet for Every House’ campaign from Katra Sadatganj village in Badaun that has been in the news for the killing of two girls when they ventured out of their homes in the dark to relieve themselves.
Terming the entire campaign a tribute by the leading sanitation NGO to the two cousins whose bodies were found hanging from a tree in their village, Sulabh founder Bindeshwar Pathak said: “Absence of toilets in houses, particularly in rural areas, is behind such incidents of rapes and sexual assaults in villages … I hope this campaign will exhort corporate houses and big organisations to come forward and adopt villages and build toilets in each household.” Read more....