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"The news of Babupatti village becoming ODF will also make Amitabh Bachchan happy as he has been constantly promoting izzatghar," said a villager. ALLAHABAD: Babupatti, the ancestral village of Bollywood icon Amitabh Bachchan - also an ambassador of Swachh Bharat Mission - in Raniganj tehsil of Pratapgarh district was declared open defecation free (ODF) on Tuesday, the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. The department had sanctioned 151 toilets in the village." A library in his memory was inaugurated by Jaya Bachchan Assistant development officer (ADO) of Gaura panchayat, Kamlesh Shukla, told TOI, "The Babupatti village has finally got ODF tag after 140 toilets were built. Before starting toilet construction, the district authorities had conducted a survey of village and found that 26 families had already built toilets and 14 others had built them under various government housing schemes..