The Times of India 18.03.2013
PCMC moots city sanitation plan
PUNE: The Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) will prepare a 'city sanitation plan' to provide more number of toilets with better sanitation.
Municipal commissioner Shrikar Pardeshi said, "The plan will be prepared this calendar year and implementation will start before December end. The civic body will construct more toilets for men and women in different areas of the city. Most of them will be operated on pay-and-use basis."
Pardeshi said that the presence of a huge floating population in the twin towns results in lack of sanitation and inadequate number of urinals. Referring to the problems of slums and chawls, Pardeshi said, "Sometimes chawl owners remove or steal toilet doors to force people to vacate. One such incident had occurred in Kasarwadi a year back."
The civic administration has made a provision of Rs 3 crore in the draft budget of 2013-14 for construction of toilet blocks. There are 71 slums in the city with a need for 2,014 more toilet seats. The PCMC is making plans to construct the requisite number of toilets.
In some areas there is no land available for the civic body to construct toilets so the residents defecate in the open. The civic administration plans to purchase 20 mobile toilets to solve this problem.
Vikas Patil, president of the Paryavaran Sanvardhan Samiti, said, "Slum-dwellers of Gandhinagar slums openly defecate along the road. This area is located less than half a kilometer from the PCMC main officebuilding in Pimpri. Public toilets constructed by civic body are not maintained properly in slums so people defecate in the open in several parts of the city. Civic officials complain of lack of land to construct public toilets but the civic administration has many properties in the city where it can provide such facilities. If required, the PCMC should acquire land from private owners."
Municipal commissioner Shrikar Pardeshi said, "The plan will be prepared this calendar year and implementation will start before December end. The civic body will construct more toilets for men and women in different areas of the city. Most of them will be operated on pay-and-use basis."
Pardeshi said that the presence of a huge floating population in the twin towns results in lack of sanitation and inadequate number of urinals. Referring to the problems of slums and chawls, Pardeshi said, "Sometimes chawl owners remove or steal toilet doors to force people to vacate. One such incident had occurred in Kasarwadi a year back."
The civic administration has made a provision of Rs 3 crore in the draft budget of 2013-14 for construction of toilet blocks. There are 71 slums in the city with a need for 2,014 more toilet seats. The PCMC is making plans to construct the requisite number of toilets.
In some areas there is no land available for the civic body to construct toilets so the residents defecate in the open. The civic administration plans to purchase 20 mobile toilets to solve this problem.
Vikas Patil, president of the Paryavaran Sanvardhan Samiti, said, "Slum-dwellers of Gandhinagar slums openly defecate along the road. This area is located less than half a kilometer from the PCMC main officebuilding in Pimpri. Public toilets constructed by civic body are not maintained properly in slums so people defecate in the open in several parts of the city. Civic officials complain of lack of land to construct public toilets but the civic administration has many properties in the city where it can provide such facilities. If required, the PCMC should acquire land from private owners."
