In order to provide efficient toilet services for more than 5,500 people across the city, the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Tuesday added another 23 hybrid toilet complexes with 120 more seats.
The complexes would help both the nearby community members and the floating population and ensure better sanitation. With the new addition of 23 hybrid toilet complexes, the temple city has now got a total of 41 hybrid toilet complexes.
The earlier 18 toilet complexes with 100 seats were helping around 4,500 citizens. Combining public, community, hybrid and project Samman toilet complexes as on date, the BMC has got 175 toilet complexes with 1,641 seats providing service to more than one lakh people across the city.
Besides, individual household toilets are also financed by the urban local body (UlB) as per the standing norms, where each family having no toilet can apply and avail the facility.
It might be mentioned here that at the corporation meeting of the BMC on June 29 it was decided to collect a fine of Rs 50 per offence, if a person is found defecating in the open, by the local Ward Sanitation Committee or the Self-Help Groups. The step is likely to work as a catalyst to make the city open defecation free (ODF) and the legislation by the urban local body might act as a prerequisite step in this regard, for the ODF tag.