By PTI | Posted 25-May-2016New Delhi: Urinating in open and spitting on the government office premises will now attract a penalty as the Centre has issued a new Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for 'Swachh Bharat Mission' to ensure a clean, hygienic and healthy work environment. Also, littering and non-collection of construction and demolition waste by the contractor will also attract the penalty. The purpose of this SOP is to improve current cleanliness levels in the government of India offices. These SOPs have been shared with all central government ministries recently asking them to follow the new procedures to ensure complete sanitation in office premises, senior government officials said. The SOP casts an obligation on authority concerned to "impose penalty on defaulters for littering, spitting and openurinating" besides conducting surprise inspections of the office premises to ensure a clean, hygienic and healthy work environment.

Source: Mid-Day May 25, 2016 05:45 UTC