India "missing" 3.75 cr toilets: sanitation activists
New Delhi : Sanitation activists yesterday observed ‘World Toilet Day' and alleged that 3.75 crore lavatories in India as claimed by Ministry for Rural Development did not exist and were “missing”. Activists of Right to
They also stressed that special focus should be accorded for the availability of toilets for women, disabled and aged in public spaces. “The socially excluded communities such as Dalits and adivasis should be covered totally as an emergency,” the activists said.
Volunteers organised signature campaigns around metro stations in the central part of the city and highlighted the accessibility of toilets by the disabled people.
Representatives from the slums and resettlement colonies demanded the maintenance of existing toilets and construction of new toilets.
Women from some colonies also shared that they have just 44 seat public toilets for a population of 29,000.
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