250 She Toilets to reduce city’s shortage skew

NT Correspondent

Bengaluru: Around 250 welle quipped ‘She Toilets’ will be constructed in heavily populated markets, mega commercial complexes and other areas in the city, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai announced as a part of the budget.

State-of-the art design including toilets, feeding room, mobile charging and emergency SOS services will be taken up at a cost Rs 50 crore in these complexes, the government announced. If efficiently implemented, the project will come as a relief to many women in the city.

A survey from 2021 pointed out that the number of public and community toilets in Bengaluru is very low when compared with the number of toilets in cities such as Chennai, Hyderabad and Ahmedabad in proportion to the population.

The survey report also stated that operation and maintenance of community toilets by the BBMP is poor but those community toilets maintained by private agencies are comparatively better. Chennai, Hyderabad and Ahmedabad have better community and public toilet ratio per 1,000 population, per square kilometre, per ward and per 100 km road length, the report stated.