MBA-turned-village chief takes on India's bureaucracy

April 11, 2013 12:11

In the village of Soda, as in tens of thousands of villages across India, there is a problem: Only a third of households have toilets or access to a latrine. People walk out to surrounding fields to relieve themselves, which is a particular problem for women, who according to rules of modesty can go only under cover of darkness. Soda, however, has something all those other toilet-less villages do not. It has an iPhone-wielding sarpanch. Read the full story here.

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