Rekha use to say ‘Nenu chaduvkune ammaini” (I am a college-going educated girl) I need to have self-respect. Rekha had said she felt ashamed of going to the toilet out in the open.They funded the education of two daughters and a son.The villages in other mandals in Nalgonda face a similar situation. She stopped going to college after the Sankranti holidays stating that she is ashamed.”College-going girls of Rekha’s age held similar views."She insisted and tried to explain that lessons she learnt in college stated that open defecation is not good. (Photo: S.”Gundala mandal revenue officer T. Several of my friends in the college have similar China toilet seats factory problem. Sattaih residents of Chakalivada eke out a living on daily wages and monthly labour in Gundala.She used to tell her parents: “Idanna chusi nerchukondi (learn from at least this TV ad)”. The predicament of several other college and schoolgoing young girls and women is no different from that of Rekha as at least every two of four households in Gundala of Nalgonda do not have toilet facility.
Even the place where she bathed was open with torn saris hung to cover one side. Sravanthi, daughter of Bayya Bishkapati studying in second year intermediate, said, “I knew Rekha and the issue on which she ended her life.Rekha immolated herself as her father expressed his inability to construct a toilet due to lack of space and money. On Monday, she argued with her father and as there was no positive response she took her life.”Belonging to BCA (washerman) community Lalamma and her husband K. B.While the nation celebrated Republic Day, Rekha’s family grieved a day after she immolated herself as her father expressed his inability due to lack of space and money to construct a toilet. In fact, 48 per cent of Telangana state households face a similar problem. Rekha, an intermediate student of Jagruthi College in Gundala of Nalgonda district, has been been telling her father for the past seven months. On attaining puberty she was more vocal. Gundala, Nalgonda: "Izzat Pothondhi Nanna (I am feeling ashamed, daddy),” is what 17-year-old K.Depressed because her parents could not build a toilet at home, Rekha committed suicide by immolating herself on Monday."
