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{{Infobox person
| name = Kunwar Bai Yadav
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| death_date = {{Death date and given age|2018|2|23|106|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Raipur]], [[Chhattisgarh]], India
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| occupation = Activist
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| known_for = Toilets
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'''Kunwar Bai Yadav''' (died 23 February 2018, aged 106)<ref name=ET>{{cite news|title=Kunwar Bai, the 106-year-old icon for Swachh Bharat campaign, dies|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/kunwar-bai-the-106-year-old-icon-for-swachh-bharat-campaign-dies/articleshow/63048609.cms|access-date=24 February 2018|work=The Economic Times|date=23 February 2018}}</ref> was a woman who lived in a village in [[Dhamtari district]] in the central [[India]]n 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 of India|Prime Minister]] [[Narendra Modi]].

==Life==
Yadav lived in Kotabharri, a village in Dhamtari district, Chhattisgarh. The villagers had always defecated in the open, in the forest. In 2015, she heard about toilets for the first time in a presentation at the local school as part of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, a campaign to end open defecation by 2 October 2019, the 150th anniversary of the birth of [[Mahatma Gandhi]].
She sold seven of her two dozen goats, her only available assets, and with the help of a daughter-in-law who works as a day labourer, raised the {{INR}}22,000 to build a toilet at the house she shared with her family. Others in the village followed suit, and, in late 2016, the district became officially free of open defecation, the first district in the State to achieve this.<ref name=BBC>{{Cite news |author=Geeta Pandey |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-37799425|title=How a 105-year-old ended open defecation in her village |date=2016-11-01 |publisher=[[BBC News]] |access-date=2016-12-08}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author=Meghan Werft |url=https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/105-year-old-woman-india-build-toilets/ |title=Indian Woman, 105, Sold 7 Goats to Build a Toilet, Sparks Massive Change |publisher=Global Citizen |date=2016-11-01 |access-date=2016-12-11 }}</ref>

Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Kotabharri and bowed and touched Yadav's feet.<ref name=BBC/><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-pm-lauds-104-year-old-woman-who-sold-her-goats-to-build-toilet-2180497 |title=PM Modi lauds 104-year-old woman who sold her goats to build toilet |newspaper=[[Daily News and Analysis]] |date=2016-02-21 |access-date=2016-12-11 }} According to this newspaper, she built two toilets.</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/pm-modi-touches-feet-of-104-yr-old-woman-who-sold-her-goats-to-build-toilets/ |title=PM Modi lauds 104-yr-old woman who sold her goats to build toilet, touches her feet |newspaper=[[Indian Express]] |agency=[[Press Trust of India]] |date=2016-02-21 |access-date=2016-12-11 }}</ref> She has been declared a mascot of the Clean India Campaign.<ref name=BBC/><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-105-year-old-kunwar-bai-made-swachh-bharat-abhiyan-mascot-2254942|title=105-year-old Kunwar Bai made 'Swachh Bharat Abhiyan' mascot |date=2016-09-14 |newspaper=Daily News and Analysis |access-date=2016-12-08}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=Shreya Biswas |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/fyi/story/swachh-bharat-abhiyan-mascot-105-yr-old-woman-chhattisgarh-340929-2016-09-14 |title=105-yr-old made Swachh Bharat Abhiyan mascot after she sells off her goats to {{as written|bui|lt [sic]}} toilet |website=[[India Today]] |date=2016-09-14 |access-date=2016-12-11 }}</ref>

Yadav was admitted to Ambedkar Hospital in [[Raipur]] after becoming ill. She died there on 23 February 2018, aged 106.<ref name=ET/><ref>{{cite news|title=Swachh Mascot 106-year-old Kunwar Bai Who Sold Her Goats to Build Toilet Dies|url=https://www.news18.com/news/india/swachh-mascot-106-year-old-kunwar-bai-who-sold-her-goats-to-build-toilet-dies-1670063.html|access-date=24 February 2018|publisher=news18.com|date=23 February 2018}}</ref>

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[[Category:People from Dhamtari district]]
[[Category:Indian activists]]
[[Category:1910s births]]
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[[Category:2018 deaths]]
[[Category:Indian women centenarians]]

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