Last month, authorities in a southern Indian state fined people caught urinating in public view for a few days.
This week, officials in a remote town started offering people money for using public urinals.
Quite amused reading these news items, I wonder whether we are witnessing the winds of change finally in India or are we just watching another piece of local image-building exercise before elections ?
In India, a drive to ensure cleanliness in streets for a week or so is a common exercise, but people often forget such drives in a hurry and the street corners are suddenly smelling again and people using handkerchiefs and sometimes masks to cover their nose.
But the novel idea of asking people to earn money by using a public urinal was certainly worth noticing I thought.
