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Chinnamasta Rural Municipality-6 of Saptari is a squatter's Sada (Musahar) settlement attached to the ward office at Kochabkhari without a toilet. Saptari has been declared an open direction-free zone on Chait 21, 2074 with the main slogan 'Jekar gharme charpi nain, okar gharme shadi nain' (He who does not have a charpi in his house, there is no marriage in his house).
At that time, more than 80 percent of the houses had built toilets and the local government promised to build public toilets for the rest of the poor squatters, and the district was declared an open direction free zone.
But according to the commitment, a public toilet was constructed in the same financial year at a cost of 7 lakh rupees. However, even after 7 years, Sada community is not allowed to use the toilet.
125 people of the slum are forced to defecate in the open when the public toilet is locked by the public representative. "How many times have you tried to build a toilet, but the money you bring from wage labor is lost to the family," said local 30-year-old Rajkumar Sada. "If you don't defecate before dawn, it becomes very difficult," she said.
"From the ward president to the village president, I told them about the problems here, but I don't see them as having anything to do with us, who should I tell the problems to?" he said. Ward president Kapileshwar Sah said that the public toilet was operational once and it was locked after children broke the pipe connected to the septic tank.
"The village municipality does not give us a budget for maintenance, now the ward office owes a lot of debt," he said, "I will repair the toilet with my own money, but they will not vandalize it again." I have closed it because there is no one to take charge.'
