Eheliyagoda is a beautiful little town on the Colombo-Ratnapura main road, crowded with people from the surrounding neighbouring villages and estates almost from down to dusk, making purchases of their day to day needs. Sundays and Wednesday are the busiest days of the week when people gather in large numbers at the two weekly fairs.

Here we do not lack in recreational, transport, medical, library, water or electricity facilities, but we woefully lack, in one of the most basic facilities, the deprivation of toilet facilities.

We see people who come to this town from far and near, running about looking for a secluded spot or place to relieve themselves. Just imagine how embarrassing it would be, specially for women, in such a precarious situation? Neither human nor beasts can endure in silence when the urge to purge is at its zenith, - their awkward and excited movements may cause suspicion in the minds of on-lookers. They could even be mistaken for suicide bombers. Let not the people looking for public lavatories be made to suffer insult, inconvenience and humiliation. This is an elementary need, but nonetheless a vital one... and should be promptly accommodated, to be in consonance with nature.

There is a row of unused public lavatories just few yards away from the Divisional Secretariat behind the public bus station, which sometime ago was abandoned

We wonder why the defunct lavatories are not restored for public use.

It does not require extra gray matter for the relevantlocal authorities to revamp the project.