Mr Narwal who has set a target to make the Sagar town open defecation free by December 31.
Bhopal: A collector in a Madhya Pradesh district has adopted an unconventional way to break the old habit of people defecating in the open by literally catching them with their “pants down”.
Sagar district collector, Vikash Narwal early on Monday morning, made a round of a water body in the district headquarters town along with a team of officials to catch the people relieving themselves in the open “red-handed” and shame them to free them of their habit.
“I have found a dozen people defecating in the open close to a water body in Sagar town when I was making round of the area as part of Swachh Bharat campaign. I asked my official team members to confiscate their ‘lota’ (water-filled pitchers).”
“I also banged these people for not using their home toilets and going out and them of monetary penalty if they do not change their embarrassing behaviour,” Mr Narwal said. “I got angry because I noticed a public toilet barely a few feet from the place and nobody was using it,” he added. Mr Narwal who has set a target to make the Sagar town open defecation free by December 31, said he is mulling to impose penalty on violators.
According to him, around 6,000 out of nearly 80,000 households in the district headquarters town of Sagar had been without toilets when the Swachch Barat campaign began a year ago.
