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Please make more public toilets

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Posted on Tue Jun 15, 2004 at 02:44:17 AM EST

Are you tired of seeing a row of men relieving themselves around the racecourse wall? Or anywhere in general? When will we understand some basic hygiene. I wish Pune takes a lead and invites Faud to make some high class toilets here:
http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2003/07/24/stories/2003072400480300.htm

First location could be Pune-Sholapur road near the racecourse. For some reason, men can't seem to hold the urge when they see that open expanse of land.

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ITO crossing and the same problem liquid manure (none / 0) (#7)
by prodrocks on Sun Feb 27, 2005 at 10:39:46 AM EST

Read a very nice article on this whole subject. Thought I would share it with others.

Please check it out.

Daily Pioneer

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Low-cost toilets for 250 MCD schools (none / 0) (#6)
by Sanjay Sharma on Sat Oct 09, 2004 at 09:50:28 AM EST

From Low-cost toilets for 250 MCD schools - The Times of India

OCTOBER 09, 2004, NEW DELHI: Toilet facilities in MCD-run government schools mostly keep away users, what with the bad maintenance and overpowering stench. That is, in case the school in question has a toilet. Now the MCD is trying to change all that. The corporation is trying to ensure that at least all the girls' school run by it have proper toilet facilities.

And the facilities in question will at least 15% cheaper than the regular brick and concrete versions that are constructed in schools. The low cost model developed by the Building Material and Technology Promotion Council (BMTPC) uses bricks made from flyash and glass fibre reinforced doors that recycle glass shards disposed as construction waste. MCD sources, however, say that the corporation and the ministry may go on to share resources if the question of adopting the model for the rest of the city arises. "This is being treated as a prototype, if successful, it may be used for public toilet complexes as well," the official said.

The civic agency has been promised help by the Union minister of state for urban employment and poverty alleviation Kumari Sailaja in the project. "The girl child will be the focus of the project as such facilities often prove to be crucial for their security as well," said an MCD education department official.

Finance is usually an issue and often, damaged or malfunctioning toilets never get fixed, forcing children to often step out of the school boundary. The MCD runs 1,853 primary schools all over the city that cater to a whopping 9.5 lakh students. Classes are often run in shifts and hardly any time or resources are available for maintenance.

"To begin with, we have sent the action plan to the ministry listing the 250 girls' schools that need toilets on a priority basis. The ministry will build the toilets for us. The process to identify other places that need the facility is on," said MCD commissioner Rakesh Mehta.

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More links on this subject (none / 0) (#4)
by prodrocks on Thu Jul 29, 2004 at 11:29:26 PM EST

http://www.sparcindia.org/documents/IIED/Community%20Toilets%20in%20Pune.htm

http://www.goodnewsindia.com/Pages/content/discovery/shelter.html

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: Some more links (none / 0) (#5)
by Unregistered Visitors on Wed Sep 01, 2004 at 06:36:57 AM EST

One might have noticed public toilets in Bangalore sponsered by Infosys Foundation.
http://www.blrforward.org/home/archivesPubHealth.html
http://www.inf.com/infosys_foundation/health.html
Taking help of corporation is good idea.
Television(Govt and private channels) and radio is best medium to create awareness among people that 'doing it on road' is bad. TV is very effective
Other interesting links :
http://www.britloos.co.uk/membership/savtoilet.html
http://www.toiletmap.gov.au/whatis.html
BTW Is there any actual action being taken?

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Looks like PMC has a plan to build 100 (none / 0) (#3)
by Unregistered Visitors on Thu Jul 29, 2004 at 11:18:05 PM EST

If this article is accurate, then there is a plan to build 100 more public toilets.

http://www.citywatchnews.net/new%20folder/Mainpage.html#PUNE

Lets hope one of them is located near the racecourse.

Maybe we dont need something that fancy (none / 0) (#2)
by prodrocks on Thu Jun 17, 2004 at 02:02:05 AM EST

How about just putting a few of these Portalets around in key places instead of actual constructing "sarvajanik mutaris"?

http://www.polyportables.com/standard.html

I dont know the cost of one of these. Maybe the sanitation dept can send out their cleaning crew once a day to empty the bucket out. The question is now whether men would have the civic sense to form a queue for their turn or just back to the good old ways. BTW, are there any such portable stalls in Pune?

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In Delhi the toilet movement is successful ... (none / 0) (#1)
by Sanjay Sharma on Tue Jun 15, 2004 at 03:46:29 AM EST

Thanks for bringing this interesting article to our attention.

It is true that public toilets like this are needed on a larger scale, but one thing that is the lynchpin of the whole effort is that they should be able to sell enough advertising to support a janitor, a person to issue tickets, and a gardner. The selling of tickets to people using the toilets is not enough to offset to total costs.

It would be an interestig exercise to identify spots in Pune where such an enterprise could take off. And you are right, Pune does need something like this quite urgently.

Do our readers have any suggestions for which spots in Pune are best for a public toilet like this?

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