Local residents and shop keepers are giving stiff opposition. Again some are coming up near road widening, places of worship, heritage structures and land disputes.

Private agencies Itihas Media Pvt Ltd and Jagran Engage had proposed to construct some 100 modern public toilets, compact toilets and two five-star utility toilets besides the People’s Plaza on Necklace road and at Shilpakala Vedika near the Hi-tech City.

GHMC officials evaluated feasibility of the locations and after inspection of proposed sites found that 90 percent of them were not feasible for construction of public toilets.

Speaking to Express, GHMC authorities said the proposed public toilets had been put on hold because of strong opposition from local residents and shop keepers.

Some were also coming near road widening, religious places and heritage structures while others were proposed on areas of land dispute and ownership problems.

A few of them could not be taken up due lack of sewerage and water pipelines.

The GHMC had invited Expressions of Interest (EoI) for construction and maintenance of public toilets under the Fund Your City programme, a few months ago. 

The plan was to construct eco-friendly and ultra- modern public toilets which would be maintained by successful agencies for a period of five years. No user charges would be collected.

Though the population of Greater Hyderabad is over 70 lakh, yet there are only 100-odd public urinals. Even the existing are badly maintained.

The GHMC had constructed these toilets in the 90s and had done no maintenance work.

The situation is so bad at some places that urine overflows on to the roads.