Tuesday, September 18, 2018

Swacch Bharat alright.. But who will maintain

Yesterday on the way from Anantapur to Bengaluru, went to use the public toilet next to airport toll. And believe me - and I'm from Mumbai who's seen a lot in suburbs - this was the worst toilet one could have seen.
No celebrity, no politician would have stood next to it irrespective of their claims.

What is the use of an outer shine when inside it's this dirty. And how come such a toilet in even such a prime area. The response I'm sure would be that there is no government funding for maintanence of toilets, funds are perhaps only to build new ones. As a gentleman did so yesterday, better than use such a toilet is to defecate in the open. It is akin to the movie Joker, where as part of free toilet schemes, just the toilet seat was handed to the poor in a well promoted event. What about the piping and drainage, no point in even asking.

Be it toilets or demonetization, a weakness of this government has been to not consider and plan for the aftermath. I hope it takes this feedback and builds on the good work of creating a non-corrupt administration.

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