Hyderabad: Marking the World Toilet Day, Taruni, an organisation working for the welfare of adolescent girls and women organised a programme and screened the documentary ‘The Little Finger’ at Ravindra Bharathi on Sunday.
Chevella MP Konda Vishweshwar Reddy and Commissioner of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Commissioner B Janardhan Reddy were chief guests. The documentary was directed by K L Prasad and orphan girls of Radha Kishan Home played roles.
Addressing the gathering, the Chevella MP said four sanitation trucks were running in Chevella constituency and each sanitation truck cleaned toilets of 30 schools in one day. Another 26 sanitation trucks would be provided, he added. He said 90 per cent of the toilets were constructed in the constituency and 60 villages were completely using toilets.
B Janardhan Reddy said the State government had been taking effective measures to clean the city. Under the GHMC limits, as many as 1,440 toilets were built and 24 ‘She toilets’ were installed, he said. On January 26 this year, the GHMC installed two unique and modern electronic toilets (e-toilet) for women at a cost of Rs 7.3 lakh near Charminar.
He said the GHMC was planning to install 100 ‘She toilets’ across the city soon. The GHMC would introduce ‘Swachh Sena’ for helping women at these e-toilets. Commissioner said the GHMC recently approached petrol bunks, shopping malls and hotels to provide toilet facilities to the public under Corporate Social Responsibility. As many as 657 corporate societies agreed to provide toilets to the common public.
He also said the people who do not have toilets can apply to the GHMC to get Rs 12,000 for toilet construction and if there was no space to construct toilets, community toilets would be constructed.
One of the organisers Lata Jain said, “Women and girls who come out for works are facing problems due to insufficient access of toilets in our city. As a result, women are facing health issues like kidney and maternity problems due to holding urine long time.”
Article Source: The Hans India