Jamshedpur: Indian men can treat every wall as an urinal, even one with words like Gandhiji ne diya sandesh, swachh rakkho Bharat desh.

This is happening in Jamshedpur where the freshly painted boundary walls of the East Singhbhum district collectorate in Sakchi, with sanitation messages, are an informal community urinal for all and sundry. Literally, a washout for the city that is aspiring for a top-10 finish in Swachh Survekshan 2018, prodded by none else than Jamshedpur East MLA and chief minister Raghubar Das.

A clerk at the district collectorate, Navin Kumar, said people urinating on the boundary wall, which was painted in January with swachh messages, was a normal sight.

"Forget the stench, think of the impression this makes," the clerk said, adding the district collectorate houses offices of most senior civil administrative officials including East Singhbhum DC, additional DC, ADM law and order, deputy development commissioner, and district welfare, rural development authority, social welfare and election officers.

Visitors to the collectorate - at least 500 daily - are questioning the seriousness of Jamshedpur Notified Area Committee (JNAC) claims, especially its much-hyped flying squad to prevent open urination at public places.

"The JNAC makes tall claims. It boasts controlling open defecation and urination through prosecution by its flying squads. Where are the flying squads when people are urinating on the district collectorate walls?" said JMM youth wing leader and Burmamines resident Mahabir Murmu who visited the district collectorate on Tuesday.

Asked, JNAC blamed the poor civic sense. "We indeed have an enforcement squad and in the last one month (January) it fined over 1,500 persons for urinating in the open. But people should also have civic sense. There are two functional public toilets, one at the collectorate and the other barely 30m away near Jubilee Park gate."