the acts of scams since 2010 , when for the first time in Indian history people got familiar with the ‘ toilet scam ’ in Mahakumbh at Haridwar . The corrupt authorities were accused to have lied to the government about building some thousand of permanent toilets for the devotees , which in reality did not exist . As a result of which , millions of people from across the country who gathered in the holy town of Haridwar defecated in public , inviting hazardous diseases to themselves . For a meagre amount of money , the officials put the life of millions devotees as well as the residents at stake . It seemed that money is the foremost thing to achieve for them . To the matter of fact and surprise , when the capital of Uttarakhand , Dehradun lies far behind than many big cities from across India in the Swachhta Sarvekshan , the rural Uttarakhand was declared open defecation free ( ODF ) in June this year . Dehradun , in which millions of dollars are spent every year to exploit every natural aspect of it in the name of development , has still failed to compete with its own rural areas . According to the official reports , only 13 out of 60 wards could have been declared ODF in Dehradun , which are all rural . Hundred percent target to get Dehradun free from the bars of the open defecation and consequently achieve a better position in the swachhta sarvekshan cannot be achieved by the authorities and the government understand the root of the problem . Dehradun has a large population of poor immigrants . The labourers from the eastern Uttar-Pradesh and Bihar migrates to Dehradun to earn better wages . If , in spite of having worked against the open defecation and carrying the awareness drives for the same , Dehradun is lying behind its own neighbouring areas , it clearly indicated that world by the Nagar Nigam and government has not been up to the mark . The immigrants and slums contribute most of the open defecation in the capital . The NGOs that have been taking money