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It was given 100 toilets under ODF scheme in 2014-15 and 500 in 2016-17. However, we were not given cash or material for toilet construction.”Like them, a number of people dug up pits on getting similar assurance from the pradhan and block development officials. However, with no money for construction, the pits remained and no progress was made. When the river is in spate, they sit along roads.”In a Sonekar-dominated hamlet, Mohan Sonekar said that for 35 families, there are seven toilets. Many toilets are constructed without soak pits and are connected to drains taking waste in the Ganga.Peda and Sharda, a Malahia couple, said, “We had been assured a toilet by the gram pradhan after which we somehow arranged for Rs 1,100 and requested labourers to dig the pit..