I hope you don't feel like peeing after reading the header. Well, India is a great place to travel and go places. Most of us need to use public toilets while travelling or being a bit away from home. While travelling is a sure delight in the country, I would say the opposite for public toilets which are a necessity at such times. The pathetic condition of public toilets is what pushes people to pee on walls, bushes and fields. Two girls in Haryana got raped and hanged to death 'cause they went to the fields for peeing in the middle of the night. That might be a bit too much to say as there are several reasons to be blamed for this mis-happening. Coming back to the public toilets, India has a lot of them but guess what, you need to pay for peeing in the public toilets of India. This special tax is only for ladies. The reason? Well, men can pee on the walls or the bushes but women can't. The first photograph below has been clicked at a bus stand where men need not pay but women have to and it is Rs. 5 for each time you use the stinking, infected and unclean public toilet. What if a person has an income of Rs. 100 per day and has to pee 6 times? 30% of the income for peeing! I'd rather stop drinking liquid or won't use public washrooms at all (a disgrace to the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan). Price hike is understandable to an extent but this is not acceptable. The other photograph was taken at a tourist point where peeing charges are as high as 15 rupees! The board has been put up by the Nagar Parishad of the area. It is obvious that people will pee outside and save themselves from spending money and getting infected. One way to control this is to install super hydrophobic walls which throw pee back on the person but that would require a lot of investment and is an impractical option for a country as big as India. The conditions of the toilets get worse each day and the rates of the same rise at the corresponding pace. We are just paying to pee on someone else's pee and then again someone else would pee on ours. No water, no hygiene and zero sanitation. I don't know when the government would stop flaunting its economic growth rates and have a look into this matter. I humbly ask the NGOs too to come ahead for helping civilians on a concern which the masses don't discuss quite openly in the country. Let's do our bit and keep the toilets clean on our part as a user; the only way to avoid Pay to Pee on Pee on Pee.
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