වැසිකිලි යමු, සල්ලි හොයමු.. (ඉන්දියාව)
ඉන්දියාවේ උන්ට දැන් PTC සයිට් ඔනේ නැ. ඊට වඩා ගෙවනවා දැන් නගර සබාවෙන්.. ඉන්දියාවේ නගර සබාවක් සෞක්ය දියුනු කිරීම හා එලි පහලියේ මල පහ කිරීම නැවත්වීම සදහා වැසිකිලි යන සැම මනුස්සයෙකුටම ඉන්දීය රුපියලක් (LKR2) දෙනව.
Use toilet, get one rupee
A city council in western India is planning to pay residents to use public toilets in a desperate attempt to stop legions of people urinating and defecating in public.
The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation has decided to give residents one rupee a visit in a bid to draw them into its 300 public toilets and away from open areas and public walls, which often reek of urine.
AMC health officer Bhavikk Joshi said the offer would be trialled at 67 public facilities across Ahmedabad, the main city in western Gujarat state, where officers will give a coin to each user.
"Once successful the project will be implemented in all the 300 public toilets in Ahmedabad," Joshi told AFP on Monday.
The move is the latest effort to motivate people to use toilets after India's government announced a cleanliness drive last year championed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Many people in India consider toilets unhygienic and prefer to squat in the open, believing it more sanitary to defecate far from home.
AMC standing committee chairman Pravin Patel said repeat offenders would be "identified and encouraged" to use the coin-paying toilets.
"The idea behind this project is to prevent open defecation in parts of the city where people, despite having public toilets, defecate in the open," Patel told AFP.
India's government last year announced a scheme to check whether people who were given toilets as part of its cleanliness drive were actually using them, by getting sanitary inspectors to go door-to-door.
UNICEF estimates that almost 594 million people -- or nearly half of India's population -- defecate in the open, with the situation worst in dirt-poor rural areas.
Lack of toilets and other sanitation problems cause huge health problems in India by causing illnesses such as diarrhoea.
ඉන්දියාවේ උන්ට දැන් PTC සයිට් ඔනේ නැ. ඊට වඩා ගෙවනවා දැන් නගර සබාවෙන්.. ඉන්දියාවේ නගර සබාවක් සෞක්ය දියුනු කිරීම හා එලි පහලියේ මල පහ කිරීම නැවත්වීම සදහා වැසිකිලි යන සැම මනුස්සයෙකුටම ඉන්දීය රුපියලක් (LKR2) දෙනව.
Use toilet, get one rupee
A city council in western India is planning to pay residents to use public toilets in a desperate attempt to stop legions of people urinating and defecating in public.
The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation has decided to give residents one rupee a visit in a bid to draw them into its 300 public toilets and away from open areas and public walls, which often reek of urine.
AMC health officer Bhavikk Joshi said the offer would be trialled at 67 public facilities across Ahmedabad, the main city in western Gujarat state, where officers will give a coin to each user.
"Once successful the project will be implemented in all the 300 public toilets in Ahmedabad," Joshi told AFP on Monday.
The move is the latest effort to motivate people to use toilets after India's government announced a cleanliness drive last year championed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Many people in India consider toilets unhygienic and prefer to squat in the open, believing it more sanitary to defecate far from home.
AMC standing committee chairman Pravin Patel said repeat offenders would be "identified and encouraged" to use the coin-paying toilets.
"The idea behind this project is to prevent open defecation in parts of the city where people, despite having public toilets, defecate in the open," Patel told AFP.
India's government last year announced a scheme to check whether people who were given toilets as part of its cleanliness drive were actually using them, by getting sanitary inspectors to go door-to-door.
UNICEF estimates that almost 594 million people -- or nearly half of India's population -- defecate in the open, with the situation worst in dirt-poor rural areas.
Lack of toilets and other sanitation problems cause huge health problems in India by causing illnesses such as diarrhoea.
මම ලඟදි දවසක දැක්ක බන් උන්ගෙ ජෙමිනි බ්රිජ් එක උඩ නාකියෙක් නානව උගෙ මීය විතරක් ලේන්සුවකින් ඔතාගෙන ෆුල් නේකඩ්
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