Jademma from Ballari recently visited religious hill stations like Bababudangiri, Mullayanagiri, Sitalayyanagiri in Chikkamagaluru district along with her family. What she took away from it was not just good memories. Faced with the issue of absence of public toilets despite lakhs of visitors, she wrote an emotional letter to President Droupadi Murmu explaining the difficulty she faced in going to the toilet and has requested for basic facilities such as toilets in tourist places.
In her letter to President of India, Ms. Jademma said Ms. Murmu is an inspiration and a symbol of confidence for a common woman like her and the primary purpose of her letter is to confess the pains of ordinary women.
“A few days ago, we visited Bababudangiri, Mullayanagiri, Sitalayyanagiri with family. Pressure to urinate started at Bababudangiri, but there were no toilets anywhere on the top of the hill. After resisting that pressure, we went to Mullayanagiri, but there was none there. We searched in Sitalayyanagiri, there were no toilets there either. At last, I endured the shame and humiliation and relieved myself in the plains,” she said in the letter.
