106-yr-old Swachh Bharat Abhiyan mascot passes away
Swachh Bharat Abhiyan mascot Kunwar Bai passed away aged 106 in Chhattisgarh's Raipur due to a prolonged illness. The state government selected her as the mascot after she sold off her goats to build toilets at her house. Felicitating Bai for her efforts to make her village open-defecation free, PM Narendra Modi had urged the media to "spread her story".