Sunita Devi (mason)

Sunita Devi (born 1980) is an Indian mason honoured for building toilets.

[2] When others including the Swachh Bharat Mission-Gramin (SBM-G) arrived in her village in 2015 and started to talk about toilets.

[1] The mission wanted to create an Open defecation free community and they were offering a grant of 12,000 rupees for each toilet constructed by a rural family.

[1] The "2018" award was made in the Presidential Palace by the President of India on International Women's Day.

[4] A year later the President honoured another woman Kalavati Devi who had also trained as a mason to build toilets in Kanpur.

Recipients of the Nari Shakti Puraskar . Devi is in the middle of the back row