Drone to stop open defecation in Telangana

Hyderabad: The Karimnagar police department have initiated to end the practice of open defecation by sending Drones monitored from the police control room which will capture anyone violating the rules.

The local reservoir which is located on the outskirts of the town serves as a drinking water source for four districts and is a popular tourist spot. Initially the drone was deployed to protect the water body from getting polluted and to prevent eve-teasing and illegal transportation cases. But after a few morning walkers highlighted the increasing cases of open defecation, the police department decided to utilise the drones to identify people and discourage them from the unsanitary practice.

Karimnagar police Commissioner VB Kamalasan Reddy told “The campaign has become necessary because the dam supplies drinking water to four districts and people defecating on the bund and slopes pollutes the water. By using the drone, we intend to prevent them from defecating near the dam which supplies drinking water,”

“The dam provides drinking water. How can we allow to pollute it? We only want to deter them,” he added

To implement the name and shame campaign, the police have tied up with the local Lake Walkers’ Association. So visuals of people captured by the drone   caught in the act are identified and then publicly garlanded by the Association or the police. “This is only for preventing them. We will garland them, so that they don’t repeat the act,” says the Commissioner.