The Hindu 01.09.2014
DUSIB plans toilets with improved technology for all slum dwellers
The Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUSIB) has
formulated a ‘slum sanitation strategy’ for providing toilet facilities
to slum dwellers across the city. The Board announced on Sunday that it
planned to provide better sanitation facilities and upgrade the existing
toilets in JJ clusters.
DUSIB chief executive
officer Amar Nath said new toilets with improved technology would be
made available and Rs. 42 crore would be spent for creating these
facilities. DUSIB has been using bio-digester-based disposal systems in
some of its new toilet blocks and mobile toilet vans, he said.
Presently,
there are 685 JJ clusters, which are on land owned by various State and
Central Government agencies, where DUSIB, civic bodies, and other
government agencies have provided toilet facilities.
USIB
has provided 307 toilet blocks and will take over all the toilet blocks
which are presently with the civic bodies, Mr. Nath said.
“To
improve sanitation in the slums , there is a need to devise an
integrated slum sanitation strategy and an advisory committee on
sanitation strategy in slums comprising NGOs and experts working in the
field of sanitation has been constituted,” he said.
DUSIB has been using bio-digester-based disposal systems in some of its new toilet blocks and mobile toilet vans
