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VIDEO: Village Achampatti Is Now a Zero Open-Defecation Village Thanks to This 90-Year-Old Couple!

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C. Alagu Ambalam and his wife A. Angammal, a 90-year-old couple, volunteered to build the first toilet in their village Achampatti. They constructed the toilet themselves under the MNREGA scheme. They also dug up two pits and took care of curing after construction.

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90 year old couple build a toiletVillage Achampatti is now a Zero Open-Defecation Village thanks to this 90-year-old couple!

Posted by TheBetterIndia on Monday, June 20, 2016

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Written by Mandar Pandhare

Mandar is a commerce graduate turned journalist. His interest in writing and the constant quest to find answers got him to explore media and the web. When he is not writing stories, he is busy travelling or drooling over street food.