If there is ever a challenge to identify a poster child for the Swachh Bharat campaign, Chetna Sinha, 59, founder of the Mann Deshi Foundation, Mann Deshi Mahila Sahakari Bank and a business school, would evidently qualify. An economist, microfinancier, farmer and social opponent who started her work from Maharashtra’s Satara district, Sinha has enthusiastic her life to the economic empowerment of rural women. She moved to Mhaswad, a town in Satara district, three decades ago when she married into a rural farming family. Coming from cosmopolitan Mumbai, Sinha’s first shock was learning that she had to secrete in the open since the house had no toilet. The household finally did get one, but this was the start of Sinha’s journey of attending to what the community wanted, and one day finding a way to get it Formulated and delivered
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