July 26, 2016
Special Mention by Nadimul Haque on the need of a law against spitting in public places
Spitting is a big problem and unfortunately no one talks about it. The government despite its promise to make the country “Swach”, has no regulations to control spitting in public place.
It is one of the key causes for tuberculosis, pneumonia, influenza and various other deadly disease. As per the World Health Organization (WHO) Global TB report of 2015, in the year 2014, 2.2 million TB cases were estimated in India.
Today, the need is not just to enact a central law prohibiting spitting in all public places but also to accompany it with major social awareness campaigns. Hence. I request the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to Firstly, introduce, “Anti Spitting Day’ in association with other NGO’s working in same direction. Secondly, to allocate certain funds for awareness campaign in school, colleges and other public place. Thirdly, to give priority to anti spitting campaign as given to open defection under swach bharat abhiyaan.
