Watch film on loos: C’garh civic body

Had asked locals to use neighbour’s toilet till they built their own

The very mention of the word “toilet” seems to be giving a sinking feeling among the officials as well as local villagers in a Chhattisgarh district.

Barely a week after the local civic body authorities in Bemetra district issued a controversial order asking the villagers who have no toilet facility in their homes to use the neighbours’ loos, another directive by a civic body in the area ordering the officials to ensure that all the villagers watched the Akshaya Kumar-starrer Toilet Ek Prem Katha, telecast by DD on Sunday,

had stirred a hornet’s in the official circle there.

The Bemetra zilla panchayat issued an order asking all the panchayat officials in the district to arrange gathering of all the villagers in their respective areas to make them watch the movie which spread awareness on use of toilets.

“We have been asked to mobilize people to watch the movie telecast by DD at 10.30 am on Sunday. Villagers were busy with agriculture operations and not willing to come to the panchayat office to watch the movie.

We have incurred wrath of the villagers when we tried to persuade them to come to the panchayat for the purpose”, a senior panchayat officer told this newspaper on condition of anonymity.

Earlier, the order issued by a civic body in the district asking the villagers to use toilets of their neighbours till they built their own loos, had threatened to create law and order in the region.