Congested localities to get mobile toilets
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As part of Ezhilmighu Chennai project, the city corporation will provide 5,000 rest rooms and toilet facilities across the city of which 1,000 units will be mobile toilets to be placed in congested localities. Though the proposal was mooted in 2008, the project was shelved during the previous DMK regime.
In his first departmental review meeting, local administration minister K.P. Munusamy stressed the need for establishing more toilets in Chennai and his first budget presentation urged the local bodies to go for more rest rooms to ensure sanitation, sources said.
“The Chennai corporation planned to construct new public toilets and wanted to allow advertisements on their outer walls, but as the previous DMK government banned advertisements in the city, the project was put on hold.
The civic body was even ready with public-private participation contract draft and wanted to impose fine on those who urinate in public areas,” recalls a former chief engineer of the city corporation.
“More public toilets are required in congested places like Beach station, Pursawalkam, T Nagar, Parry’s corner’”, says Sasi Kumar, a sales executive working for a shipping firm in Parry’s.
Labourers, shoppers, salesman, lawyers and commuters suffer a lot as there are no enough rest rooms in Broadway and Parry’s corner, he adds.
When contacted, corporation commissioner D. Karthikeyan said the civic body was on the job of identifying the spots that require restrooms.
The new structures will be established on public private partnership mode and the revenue earned through renting the advertisement space in these units will be used to maintain rest rooms and lavatories, he added.
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