For Phulkumari, it was not an easy decision to make as her mother-in-law Dewanti Devi and husband Vinod Kumar -- a daily wage labourer, were against it.
"Both tried to stop me... but I convinced them," she said.
"My mother-in-law said a married woman's personal jewellery is a symbol of her 'suhaag' and one should not mortgage them for constructing toilet," she added.
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