Campaign against open defecation in Swamimalai

This is the same problem that Chennai and most of Tamizh Nadu suffers from anyway – urinating and open defecation. With urban migration, the public toilets in the cities are too few and far in between. And those that do exist are in such a bad condition that people probably feel compelled to relieve themselves elsewhere in the open. The Kaveri banks at Kumbakonam for instance is another example of open defecation. Clearly the government isn’t going to take responsibility for this and the public just doesn’t care because most of us Indians are so used to and inured to filth around us anyway. But I strongly feel that if a Tidel Park can be maintained in such a spic and span manner, it shouldn’t be such a tall order to extrapolate it to public places as well. How do we do it?

Shameful feeling is all gone with men and they urinate openly in public place .The problem is so acute they even openly display and urinate right in front of our house.The attraction being the garbage bin and EB junction box and such spot is destined for defecation.

You can’t blame people specially the floating population because they have no other place to go to relieve the pressure.It must be a joint effort by citizens,govt and NGO to create sustainable public toilets and caring and maintaining such facility and train children at the school level on the sense of personal hygiene as well as caring for their property.

The problem is rampant even at the sophisticated private schools that they are not able to maintain their toilets because the children do not cooperate ( the children are from educated families).

We can well imagine about this problem among the less privileged brethren !