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2014.08.15
Build proper toilets for women: Modi on I-Day

IndiaToday.in  New Delhi, August 15, 2014 | UPDATED 16:27 IST

Minister Narendra Modi preached all the MPs of the country to use their funds to build toilets separately for girls in his Independence Day speech on Friday. He suggested them to utilize their constituency funds to constitute proper toilets for girls and spread santization almoswt everywhere.

"There is one thing I want to begin today. There will be a separate toilet for girls in all schools so that our girl students do not run away. I want the MPs to use their funds to built toilets in schools," Modi said.

In his speech he mentioned the corporate sectors cooperation and help to turn this plan in to a reality. 



"In one year we should be able to built toilets so that on Independence Day next year, we can proudly say all the schools in the country have toilets," added Modi.


He also said that it should not be difficult for the country to build toilets so that old women and young girls in rural areas do not have to wait for darkness to ease themselves.

"You would be think that from the Red Fort he is talking about cleanliness and toilets but I am speaking from the heart," he added.

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