Obligation to pay to defecate in the toilet of Dhangadhi Sub-Metropolitan

Dhangadhi: It has been revealed that the Dhangadhi Sub-Metropolitan Municipality has been extorting money from the citizens who use the public toilets on its premises.

The sub-metropolitan government has imposed a rule of paying Rs 10 for defecation and Rs 5 for urinating by sticking an information poster outside the toilet. The service recipients who come to the municipality have complained that they have to pay for defecation.

Naresh Dhami, who hails from Rajpur in Dhangadhi, says, "It is wrong for the municipality to take money for using the toilets in its premises.

Especially when I had come to pay taxes, I feel sad when I have to pay even for urinating." The general public has been suffering due to the lack of public toilets in the Dhangadhi Sub-Metropolitan area.

There is another toilet in front of the district administration office near the sub-metropolitan complex, but both toilets demand a price for urinating.

In this regard, Dhangadhi Sub-Metropolitan Social Branch Chief Tank Bista said that the work of charging for defecation has been stopped now after the death of the operator of the public-private partnership (PPP) model.

However, he said that the toilets inside the office building can be used free of cost. Due to the lack of adequate public toilets in Dhangadhi, the only sub-metropolitan city in the Far-West, people visiting Dhangadhi for work have to face many problems.