'Most families warned of losing govt benefits if they didn't build toilets'

We are also concerned about what happens after a region is declared open defecation free, said RICE director Nikhil Srivastav

A group of villagers in central Bihar’s Begusarai district, including an elderly man, are seen holding their ears and doing sit-ups surrounded by policemen and government staff in this video posted by a local news channel in October 2018. They were being ‘punished’ for defecating in the open, the channel reported. The video also shows the villagers being made to repeat that they will defecate only in latrines. A government official can be seen slapping one of the men for smiling during the repetition.

A woman in Ahmednagar district, near Pune in west Maharashtra, is seen