A village without toilets in President's native district

A village in Kanpur which is the home district of India’s 14th President is deprived of the basic facilities such as toilets. The villagers neither have access to government housing schemes nor basic infrastructure. No government scheme was able to find its way to the village.

Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh): The Government is spending a huge amount of money and resources to promote cleanliness and stop open defecation. Ironically, 600 kilometres away from Delhi and three kilometres away from district headquarter is Banjarandera village, people are forced to defecate in open.

Banjarandera is a village in Kanpur which is the home district of India’s 14th President Ramnath Kovind.

The village is home to about 200 families and most of them do manual labour to earn their daily bread. Surprisingly, this village of 200 families does not even have a single government provided a toilet.

The people of the village neither have access to government housing schemes nor basic infrastructures like roads and drainage system. No government scheme initiated from Delhi or Lucknow never finds its way to this village.

The villagers said that they had high hopes from Prime Minister Modi that he will able to help them out of their miserable conditions but the hopes went into vain.

The villagers' pathetic condition is putting a big question mark on the entire system.