Kunwar Bai Yadav

Kunwar Bai Yadav
Died (aged 106)
Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India
NationalityIndian
OccupationActivist
Known forToilets

Kunwar Bai Yadav (died 23 February 2018, aged 106)[1] was a woman who lived in a village in Dhamtari district in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh. In her old age, inspired by the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (Clean India Campaign), she sold seven of her goats to raise the money to build a toilet at her house. In 2016, the district was declared the first in the state to be free of open defecation, and she was declared a mascot of the campaign and visited by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

  1. ^ "Kunwar Bai, the 106-year-old icon for Swachh Bharat campaign, dies". The Economic Times. 23 February 2018. Retrieved 24 February 2018.