DUSIB officials further said the government was likely to incur a cost of Rs 1.25 lakh per toilet. “The amount is for the entire set-up, including a sewer system, water channels, boundary walls, tube wells, and so on,” they added.
In a bid to woo voters ahead of the upcoming municipal polls, the Delhi government has gone on a toilet inauguration spree. Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia inaugurated 495 toilets last week, and now Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is all set to cut the ribbon for 1,000 more in the first week of January, officials said.
They added that the Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUSIB) will construct the toilets but the exact sites are yet to be identified. “It was decided during a Cabinet meeting on Thursday that the DUSIB will construct 1,000 more toilets in various slum clusters of Delhi. We have shortlisted certain areas in west and south Delhi, which have a large majority of slums,” said a DUSIB official.
DUSIB officials further said the government was likely to incur a cost of Rs 1.25 lakh per toilet. “The amount is for the entire set-up, including a sewer system, water channels, boundary walls, tube wells, and so on,” they added.
The additional toilets will cater to over 20,000 people in slum clusters, who currently do not have any access to hygienic sanitation facilities. As per a DUSIB survey, there are at least 259 open defecation spots in Delhi. Earlier, the Delhi government had announced its intention to provide 10,000 toilet seats before March 2017.
“After coming to power, the Delhi government had announced to construct two lakh toilets. The government constructed 4,119 in 2015-16. This figure will stand at 3,000 by January,” a DUSIB official said.
Of the two lakh public toilets planned across Delhi, 1.5 lakh were to be in slum clusters. The lack of a sewerage system in slums, however, has delayed the process, senior officials said. There are nearly 100 slum clusters in the national Capital, which lack proper toilet facilities, because of which women and children have to either defecate in the open or walk long distances.
Sanitation is the primary responsibility of municipal corporations, which were supposed to construct 1,000 toilets in 2014-15, but they failed to construct even a single toilet, citing lack of funds as the reason.
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