Still few places in Indore in grip of open defecation

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While the Indore district stood first in the country open defecation free (ODF) around two years ago, there are still busy places in Indore city, where people could be seen defecating in open.

The Babu Labhchand Chajalani Marg which runs in front of chameli devi public school in Indore which starts from Bijalpur square located at Mhow Indore road also known as old RTO road is a four-lane road which runs in Indore city and ends at kehsarbag railway crossing and even goes a kilometer ahead from Kehsarbag railway crossing surprisingly this 2 kilometer road with a dense population has no public toilet and when The Pioneer noticed some senior citizens including women urinating in public places enquired from the locals they said that there is no public toilet in this area thousands of people move on this road and also thousands of students study in Chameli Devi Public School and also hundreds of parents autrickshaw and taxi driver who come to drop and pick children donot have proper space for toilet.

The Government is shouldering the responsibility of construction of toilets but if the schools should also under their social responsibility should construct the toilets for the benefit of common man in this way the government land and Government money will also be saved.

There are hundreds of schools which are located in every city and if this school comes up with public toilet automatically several new toilet will come up in the city which will support the Swatch Bharart Abhiyaaan and help in keeping the city clean and green.

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