Nitish Kumar sets new condition: Have toilet, contest elections

"I am proud to note that, other than Maharashtra, Bihar was the only state to have launched a "unique" scheme to address the problem of open defecation," he added.

The Lohia Swachhata Yojana was designed to achieve the objective of providing sustainable toilets to all households by 2015.

"While the BPL families were covered under the Central scheme of Total Sanitation Campaign, we also made provisions for incentives to APL families," Kumar said giving details of the scheme.