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From: Priya Singh <notification+kr4marbae4mn@facebookmail.com>
Date: Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:35 PM
Subject: [Right to Education] Desperate to urinate and no public toilets...
To: Palash Biswas <palashbiswaskl@gmail.com>

Priya Singh posted in Right to Education.

Desperate to urinate and no public toilets around? If you are in an NDMC area, do not dare to relieve yourself in public. Two days after Hindustan Times published its report 'High on drive, low on cleanliness', the NDMC says it is now planning to strictly enforce the law penalising those urinating in public by issuing spot challans going up to Rs 100 with help from the traffic police. One could even face prosecution. Moreover, it has, for the first time, started putting up boards saying 'Open urination is a punishable offence' (sic). These boards came up after HT reported about the pathetic sanitary conditions in the Delhi High Court complex and the adjoining buildings manned by the NDMC. People have been urinating on the boundary wall of the National Gallery of Modern Art wall since quite some time now. The NDMC later said that it has proposed constructing four public urinals in the area. The fact that such poor sanitary conditions exist outside the very court which has been monitoring the city's cleanliness since 12 years has embarrassed the NDMC. Said lawyer Ashok Agarwal on whose PIL the court began monitoring the sanitation scene in the city,

Priya Singh

11:35pm Feb 16

Desperate to urinate and no public toilets around? If you are in an NDMC area, do not dare to relieve yourself in public. Two days after Hindustan Times published its report 'High on drive, low on cleanliness', the NDMC says it is now planning to strictly enforce the law penalising those urinating in
public by issuing spot challans going up to Rs 100 with help from the traffic police. One could even face prosecution.

Moreover, it has, for the first time, started putting up boards saying 'Open urination is a punishable offence' (sic). These boards came up after HT reported about the pathetic sanitary conditions in the Delhi High Court complex and the adjoining buildings manned by the NDMC. People have been urinating on the boundary wall of the National Gallery of Modern Art wall since quite some time now.

The NDMC later said that it has proposed constructing four public urinals in the area.

The fact that such poor sanitary conditions exist outside the very court which has been monitoring the city's cleanliness since 12 years has embarrassed the NDMC.

Said lawyer Ashok Agarwal on whose PIL the court began monitoring the sanitation scene in the city, "As per the NDMC Act, urinating in public has always been an offence, but they have never shown a determination like this by putting up signages."

PK Sharma, director of the NDMC's Public Health, wing told HT, "We wanted to caution the public by putting up these boards. Urinating in public has always been an offence but the problem was issuing spot challans. Initially the tie up with traffic police was effective but then it wore down."

But as the NDMC does not have the manpower to station its staff for monitoring the situation in its areas, Sharma said that the civic body is all set to begin fresh negotiations with the traffic police.
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NDMC says it is now planning to strictly enforce the law penalising those urinating in public by issuing spot challans going up to Rs 100 with help from the traffic police.

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