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The Ugly Indians (TUI) are an anonymous group of motivated volunteers who clean Indian streets. Volunteer can join TUI to clean their streets by sending a mail to theuglyindian@gmail.com.

Spot-fixing
TUI calls cleaning the street as "Spot-fixing". TUI chooses small stretches each week to clean: pavements piled up with plastic, defaced walls, footpaths rendered unusable by potholes as spot-fixing places. All tools, materials & instructions are provided on the spot. All Spot Fixes are self funded, and the volunteers are requested to bring a certain amount as contribution towards material costs.

Guidelines For Volunteers
The Ugly Indian's philosophy is "Kaam chalu mooh bandh. Stop Talking, Start Doing." Apart from this, TUI has few general guidelines regarding sport-fixing.
 * 1) No lectures, no moralising, no activism, no self-righteous anger.
 * 2) No confrontation, no arguments, no debates, no pamphlets, no advocacy.
 * 3) Don’t step on anyone’s toes, don’t take sides in any ideological debates.,
 * 4) Support existing systems and improve their effectiveness for the greater good.
 * 5) Basically, get real. Treat everyone with sincerity, respect and dignity first,and the greater good will be an outcome."

The Ugly Indian Solution
TUI recognises the spotfix as success only if
 * 1) It sustains in the public street for at least 90 days.
 * 2) It sustains with no supervision.
 * 3) It is low-cost (ideally free) and easy to implement and replicate
 * 4) It changes the behaviour and attitudes of all concerned
 * 5) It creates minimal change in the daily actions of everyone concerned (nobody should lose a job, lose a source of income, or get seriously inconvenienced – because it takes only one Ugly Indian to undo the good work of a hundred others.

Anonymity
Anonymity is a big attraction of the movement. The Ugly Indian describes itself as a "faceless, leaderless" volunteer organization. It is made up of self-driven and motivated people who are mostly professionals in the 25-40 age group and they remain strictly anonymous. The Ugly Indians have chosen to remain anonymous as the names and identities of specific individuals are not important and they respond to media queries only by email.

tereBin
tereBins are dustbins provided by TUI to be adopted by the public. TereBins are smaller in size, weighs around 20-25 kg and are meant for paper cups, banana skins, cigarette packets and similar small litter. TUI provides tereBin service - which involves identifying ideal locations, installing the bins, setting up a daily clearing system and integrating with the local garbage clearance system, and daily supervision. One can adopt a Terebin by writing to TUI at theuglyindian@gmail.com. It costs INR 2,000 to adopt a bin (including 1 year maintenance) at a location of your choice.

WonderLOO
Wonderloo is an open urinal without compromising with the privacy of the users. The loo is unmanned and free to use. Currently there are about 10 urinals that are in operation. Every day, the TUI, in association with the local BBMP office, ensures that wonderloo is cleaned twice a day.

Credit and Advertising
According to TUI, they were approached by companies wanting to sponsor tereBins and WonderLOOs in return for advertising, and they have politely declined. However, TUI accepts adoption requests, especially from companies, if they do so without advertising on the specific object.