Chinnamasta Rural Municipality-6 of Saptari, the entire Sada (Musahar) settlement connected with the ward office at Kochabkhari is without toilet. Saptari has been declared an open and free zone on Chait 21, 2074 with the original 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 already built toilets and the local government promised to build public toilets for the rest of the poor squatters. 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 has not been allowed to use the toilet. 

When the public toilet is locked by the people's representative, 150 people of the slum are forced to defecate in the open. "How many times have you tried to build a toilet, but the money you bring from wage labor is lost to the family," said 30-year-old Rajkumar Sada, a local. "If you don't defecate before dawn, it becomes very difficult," she said. "From the head of the ward to the chairman of the rural municipality, I told them about the problems here, but they don't see any point in us, who will tell the problem now?," he said.

Ward president Kapileshwar Sah said that the public toilet was operational once and said that 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 we have to pay a lot of debt to the ward office,"  He said, "I will repair the toilet with my own money, but it does not mean that they will not vandalize it again." I have closed it because there is no one to take responsibility.'' On the other hand, when I contacted Vidyanand Chaudhary, the chairman of the rural municipality, the phone was not picked up.