This Raksha Bandhan, the women of Amethi are set to receive a gift to remember. Brothers in the district have lined up a different kind of gift for their sisters - a toilet.

To make the open defecation free campaign successful and create awareness about sanitation here, the Zila Swachchhata Samiti (district committee for sanitation) has started a programme "Anokhi Amethi Ka Anokha Bhai".

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Giving details of the plan, Chief Development Officer of Amethi, Apurva Dubey said that 854 persons from different blocks of the district have registered themselves as "brothers" with the district committee to gift a lavatory to their sisters on the occasion of Raksha Bandhan.

The men will construct the lavatory with their own expenses.

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Later, a lucky draw will be organised to give prizes to three participants. Cash prizes of up to Rs 50,000 and mobiles will be given to the winners.

Dubey said the construction of toilets will be checked and verified by a team of officials and the prizes will be given to lucky winners at a district-level programme.