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Relief for Mumbai travelers: Toilet every 2 kilometers
Clean pee stops for women: Well, the plan's in the pipeline
Plenty of these toilets around -- but they're of no use to women, for obvious reasons.When you gotta go, you gotta go. But the question is -- where?
By planning to introduce free-for-use washrooms for women every two kilometers, Mumbai's civic body intends to make life for local women and female tourists a lot less painful, as anyone going over Mumbai's road bumps with a full bladder will attest.
"The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is planning to build dedicated toilets for women within every two kilometers in the city -- after their construction, the maintenance and management of these will be handed over to NGOs," BMC standing committee chairman Rahul Shevale told the Indo-Asian News Service.
In response, Usha Kale of NGO Apnalaya India told reporters, "We have demanded that the BMC build such a toilet as a pilot project at any of the busy stations like Dadar, Churchgate or Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus."
NGOs are also thinking of equipping the proposed public loos with sanitary pad vending machines and female cleaners instead of male staff.
There are currently around 1,800 public toilets in the city, of which 437 square kilometers is administered by the BMC.
The remaining area belongs to Defence, Mumbai Port Trust, the Atomic Energy Commission and Borivali National Park, which are out of the jurisdiction of the BMC. And we don't expect you'll need to pee at any of those places.
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