New Delhi , India ( CNN ) -- The Indian capital has launched a campaign to discourage urinating in public places -- a common sight across the country . The city of New Delhi , which is preparing to host the Commonwealth Games in October of next year , will soon be displaying large billboards along its gridlocked roads and on buses in a bid to embarrass those who urinate in public to end the practice , said Mayor Kanwar Sain . The signs will feature three characters : Mr. Thu-Thu Kumar ( the spitter ) , Mr. Kuda Kumar ( the litterbug ) and Mr. Su-Su Kumar ( the person who pees in public ) . `` The capital of India must be clean . We see how clean are places like Singapore . Then , why not Delhi ? '' Sain said . Authorities will launch a similar campaign on television and radio , he said . Urinating , spitting and littering in public are acts punishable with a fine of $ 10 or more in New Delhi . Deep Mathur , the spokesman for the city 's municipal corporation , said offenders had been prosecuted . He could not provide immediate figures about prosecutions aimed at sanitation control . Bindeshwar Pathak , India 's winner of the Stockholm Water Prize , which is awarded to those who contribute to the conservation and protection of water resources , welcomed the new campaign as a motivation for a cleaner Delhi . Nonetheless , he said India 's capital needed at least 40,000 more well-maintained urinals and bathrooms . Countrywide , India must build 112,000 toilets every day if it wants to meet its sanitation goal by 2012 , according to the ministry of rural development . Even as the South Asian nation emerges as a global economic power , millions of its citizens still live in poverty . The government estimates that less than 30 percent of villagers have access to latrines , which poses serious health risks . `` Indians are clean individually , but community-wise their habits have not been very encouraging , '' said Pathak , who is credited with improving sanitation across cities , villages and slums . `` Things , however , are changing now . ''
Indian capital has launched a campaign to discourage urinating in public places . New Delhi is preparing to host the Commonwealth Games in October of next year . City to display billboards , conduct TV , radio programmes to educate the common people . Urinating , spitting and littering in public are punishable with a fine of $ 500 or more in New Delhi .