New Delhi:
Stinking urinals, no loos for women or people defecating in the open. This image of the national capital with not enough toilets and no strict action against people who commit 'public nuisances' needs to change, especially ahead of the Commonwealth Games, say experts.
With at least a hundred thousand visitors expected in the city during the Games in October, Delhiites need to change their sanitation habits and the government needs to enforce harsher punitive action against violators, says the founder of well-known sanitation NGO.
"Adopt punitive measures against those who inspite of existence of good facilities resort to the practise of committing public nuisance against walls and outside designated places," says Bindeshwar Pathak, Sulabh International.
"Imposing heavy fines on people creating a public nuisance is nothing new. It was done during the historical times of Chandra Gupta Maurya and Kautilya.