Former Rajinder Nagar MLA and BJP leader RP Singh has written to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal demanding that women be exempted from paying a fee to use toilets. “…Poor jhuggi dwellers are forced into open defecation largely because of the fee charged for toilet usage. Sir, this Independence Day, can your good office set these poor women free from paying usage charges in all the public toilets,” he said in his letter to Kejriwal. He has also asked the Delhi government to arrange for spaces where women can bathe securely. However, thousands of women and men are still forced to defecate in the open for the lack of clean and safe public toilets.

Source: Indian Express August 15, 2017 01:26 UTC