It Pays (Literally!) to Use the Public Toilet in India

By Alex in Travel on Jul 8, 2008 at 1:17 am

Officials in Musiri, a remote town in Tamil Nadu, India, came up with a novel scheme to get people to stop urinating on the street: pay them to use the public toilet!

Dozens of people are queuing up to use toilets in Musiri, a remote town in Tamil Nadu state, where authorities are succeeding in keeping street corners clean with the new scheme. [...]

The poor of Musiri, are earning upto a dollar a month and very happy to keep the street corners clean.

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LH
Jul 8th, 2008 at 7:14 am
Good idea. Maybe some of them will take this as a new job hehe.
rohin
Jul 8th, 2008 at 8:01 am
And over here we have to PAY to use the toilet in stations. I’m going to go to India and start drinking lots of beer and coffee, it’ll eventually pay for itself.
sw
Jul 8th, 2008 at 8:29 am
they women have to use urinals? maybe there’s a stall out of the pic . . .
Tim Giachetti
Jul 8th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
Someone gimme a dollar or I’m peeing right here where I si……. erm never mind. BRB gotta change.
Christophe
Jul 8th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
pay -> drink beer -> pee -> get paid -> go back to square one

we found perpetual motion!!!
dragon tryst
Jul 8th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
thats better pay than Mcdonlads! attention all acne infested teenagers, report to musiri,India
Sofar
Jul 8th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
Why don’t they just put out some buckets? It’d still be public urination but at least you could empty the bucket, easier then scrubbing the walls.
Capella
Jul 8th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
What’s the going rate for #2 over there?

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