Amethi women to get toilets as gifts this Raksha Bandhan

Lucknow: It is going to be a different Raksha Bandhan for the women in Amethi this year.

The district committee for sanitation has launched a programme called ‘Anokhi Amethi Ka Anokha Bhai’ under which men have registered themselves to gift a toilet to their sisters.

According to Apurva Dubey, the chief development officer of Amethi, 854 persons from different blocks of the district have registered themselves as ‘brothers’ with the district committee to gift a toilet to their sisters on the occasion of Raksha Bandhan.

The toilets will be constructed by the registered brothers with their own resources, the officer said.