A 12-year-old mentally disabled girl who went out to relieve herself was mauled to death by a pack of stray dogs at Bhagwatidih village in Jharkhand바카라™s Koderma district.
Koderama was Jharkhand's first district to be declared open-defecation free in 2017.
A 12-year-old mentally disabled girl who went out to relieve herself was mauled to death by a pack of stray dogs at Bhagwatidih village in Jharkhand바카라™s Koderma district.
Koderama was state's first district to be declared open-defecation free in 2017 but the victim's family did not have a toilet inside their "pucca" house.
Madhu Kumari had gone out on Sunday morning to defecate with a few other children when she was attacked by the dogs,The Telegraph."Mentally impaired and not able to walk properly," Madhu became a victim of the attack while others ran away.
The incident has come as a major embarrassment for the administration that built 68,400 toilets in the area in an open-defecation-free drive last year. It was part of the prime minister Narendra Modi바카라™s Swachh Bharat mission to build 100 million new toilets in India, where , around 524 million people, nearly half the population, defecate in the open.
 suggested that the victim's house was not covered in the toiletscheme as they lived in a pucca house and could afford a toilet. Koderma deputy commissioner told the paper that Madhu's family did not figure on the BPL list of toilet beneficiaries. "She had a pucca house so her family's name did not figure in our baseline. Now we learn their home did not have a toilet," DC Sanjiv Kumar Besra was quoted as saying.
Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das has ordered a financial assistance of Rs one lakh to the family of the deceased, and a three-member committee headed by deputy development commissioner will probe the incident and submit a report.