After wasting Rs 5 crore, GHMC now plans 160 ‘she-marts’
5 years ago

After wasting Rs 5 crore, GHMC now plans 160 ‘she-marts’

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Despite spending Rs 5 crore per zone on poorly maintained public toilets, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation is planning to add 160 more ‘She-marts’. The GHMC official said that during phase 1,60 stationary women’s toilets and 15 mobile women’s toilets will be installed in public parks and open space available in the city. The existing 38 women’s toilets, 157 build-operate-transfer toilets, 77 pre-fabricated toilets and five community toilets in the city are in very bad shape because they have been poorly maintained. The GHMC official said that `5 crore is spent per zone for maintenance and renovation of the toilets annually.

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People Condemn Unhygienic Public Toilets Across City
1 month, 3 weeks ago

People Condemn Unhygienic Public Toilets Across City

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Public toilets in the city remain a matter of concern in places like Mushreerabad, Uppal and Secunderabad, where many facilities are unhygienic and poorly maintained. Even as World Toilet Day is observed on November 19, Dr Magesh, who works in a private hospital asked, “Why would the public use those toilets when they are in such poor condition? Using …

DC Report Paves Way for Use of Toilets in Sanjay Gandhi Nagar
1 year, 6 months ago

DC Report Paves Way for Use of Toilets in Sanjay Gandhi Nagar

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Following Deccan Chronicle’s reportage on the lack of toilets in Sanjay Gandhi Nagar of Naubat Pahad, which was leading to open defecation for the past few decades, government teams on Wednesday swooped down on the area in large numbers to assess residents’ needs and make necessary arrangements. Chandramma, an elderly resident, said, “Officials came and enquired us older residents, …

Top-notch ‘aspirational’ toilets to usher in change
1 year, 8 months ago

Top-notch ‘aspirational’ toilets to usher in change

The Hindu  

A quarter of all new public restrooms in Indian cities will soon have high-end features such as luxurious bath cubicles, touchless flushing, breast-feeding rooms, and automatic sanitary napkin incinerators. “A directive has been sent to all State governments to ensure that henceforth 25% of public toilet seats added in any city or urban unit are ‘aspirational toilets’,” sources in the …

Public toilets in Coimbatore Corporation need attention
2 years, 1 month ago

Public toilets in Coimbatore Corporation need attention

The Hindu  

The Coimbatore Corporation plans to soon call for zone-wise fresh tenders to operate and maintain public toilets in the city. P. Mahalakshmi, a native of Kinathukadavu who travels to the city frequently to buy flowers from the market, said the public toilets close to the Gandhipuram bus stand have no maintenance. Corporation Commissioner M. Prathap said the tenders for the …

Yesterday’s GHMC public toilets are today’s shops!
2 years, 5 months ago

Yesterday’s GHMC public toilets are today’s shops!

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Thousands of public toilets, like the ones near Saroornagar lake and at Jubilee Hills Road No. It also claimed Hyderabad has the highest number of public toilets among all Indian cities. Of the 6,000 new public toilets, around 1,000 have been installed in LB Nagar zone, 1,000 in Kukatpally zone, 1,034 in Charminar zone, 1,000 in Serilingampally zone, 905 …

Hyderabad slums deteriorate, turn into open toilets
2 years, 7 months ago

Hyderabad slums deteriorate, turn into open toilets

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Children and men are spotted defecating openly, majorly outside slums, oblivious of the fact that they are spreading diseases like typhoid, dengue and malaria. In a way, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation has to be blamed because it has not built public toilets or provided basic amenities in a majority of slum areas. Though the civic body attained open …

GHMC ignoring maintenance of she-toilets in Hyderabad
3 years, 4 months ago

GHMC ignoring maintenance of she-toilets in Hyderabad

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: The GHMC has ignored maintenance of she-toilets throughout the state capital, which the civic body had started amid fanfare in 2017 spending Rs 3.5 crore. Today, 95 per cent of them are dysfunctional, including those near iconic places like Charminar and Golconda, which are visited by international tourists. Civic body’s apathy in monitoring she-toilets and technical glitches have largely …

Public toilets go 'missing' in GHMC
3 years, 7 months ago

Public toilets go 'missing' in GHMC

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Thousands of public toilets have gone missing in the city post Swachh Survekshan and Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation polls. Though installation of 10,000 public toilets across GHMC limits should have been completed by January, GHMC took the stand that their construction had got delayed mainly due to Covid-19 pandemic. Following his instructions, the civic authorities dismantled around 1,000 public …

GHMC puts more load on residents
4 years, 11 months ago

GHMC puts more load on residents

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Despite not providing sewerage network in the peripheral areas of the city, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation has shifted the burden on citizens. In accordance with the May 2017 directions of National Green Tribunal, the Municipal Administra-tion and Urban Development department has instructed all municipalities, municipal corporations and urban development authorities not to sanction plans for construction of commercial, …

Hyderabad: Poor feel toilets are for the rich – Unicef expert
5 years ago

Hyderabad: Poor feel toilets are for the rich – Unicef expert

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Behavioural change among people is important for India to achieve the status of being a country free from open defecation, an issue that continues to be a challenge. Now that 10 crore toilets have been additionally built, along with the earlier six crore of them, people must start using them. Hence the effort in rural areas has been to …

Hyderabad odf-free status re-certified
5 years, 1 month ago

Hyderabad odf-free status re-certified

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation has been re-certified as an open defecation free-city, after due field inspections were taken up by third-party consultants, on October 26. The GHMC is operating several categories of toilet across the city — BOT, pre-fabricated toilets, Sulabh complexes and SHE toilets. GHMC has convinced around 259 fuel stations and 280 restaurants in the city …

CSE questions sustainability of Swachh Bharat Mission's public toilet initiative
5 years, 3 months ago

CSE questions sustainability of Swachh Bharat Mission's public toilet initiative

Firstpost  

The group asked how will these toilets be kept functional and waste generated be disposed of efficiently. The Centre for Science and Environment has questioned the sustainability of the government’s Swachh Bharat Mission and raised concerns over the maintenance of the nearly 100 million toilets constructed under the ambitious programme. India has built 100 million toilets in about six lakh …

Economic Survey: Many states became open defecation free since launch of Swachh Bharat
5 years, 6 months ago

Economic Survey: Many states became open defecation free since launch of Swachh Bharat

The Hindu  

Many states have achieved 100% open defecation free status and individual household latrine coverage since the launch of Swachh Bharat Mission, one of the largest cleanliness drives in the world, the Economic Survey 2018-19 said Thursday. The survey document, tabled in Parliament, said since the launch of the flagship programme in October 2014, over 9.5 crore toilets have been built …

Ladies VROOM
5 years, 10 months ago

Ladies VROOM

Deccan Chronicle  

Lending a hand to the Swachh Bharat initiative, a couple in Pune is providing sanitation solutions for women, with aesthetically designed toilets from scrapped old buses. a The sanitation entrepreneurs have been in the business of providing portable toilets for events and construction sites for the last two decades but this time, the duo wanted to push the envelope further. …

Over nine crore toilets built, 5.5 lakh villages declared open defecation free since 2014, govt tells Lok Sabha
5 years, 11 months ago

Over nine crore toilets built, 5.5 lakh villages declared open defecation free since 2014, govt tells Lok Sabha

Firstpost  

More than nine crore toilets have been constructed across the country, while over 5 lakh villages have been declared ODF till 5 February this year under the Swachh Bharat Mission-Gramin, govt tells Lok Sabha New Delhi: More than nine crore toilets have been constructed across the country till 5 February this year under the Swachh Bharat Mission-Gramin launched in 2014, …

Hyderabad caps ODF++ status
5 years, 11 months ago

Hyderabad caps ODF++ status

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Hyderabad has added a feather to its cap by becoming the only metro city to obtain ODF ++ status. Mr Kishore said GHMC has built several categories of toilets across the city, like BOT, prefabricated, Sulabh, engineering and SHE toilets. “This has been achieved by Hyderabad Metro Water Supply & Sewerage Board and GHMC in coordination with Administrative Staff …

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