As part of the preparations for the International Day of Yoga celebration at Forest Research Institute (FRI) campus in the city slated on Thursday to be attended by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, municipal corporation of Dehradun (MCD) has set up 35 mobile toilets at the campus to facilitate the participants whose number might exceed 50,000.
The civic body officers, tasked with the preparations for the mega Yoga show, said that more would be set up as their target is to install 60 such toilets in the sprawling campus to cater to the expected huge turnout.
Meanwhile, a massive sanitation drive is now going on in the city to ensure cleanliness on the day on which PM would be in the city.
Speaking about the drive, Vijay Kumar Jogdande, municipal commissioner Dehradun said, “We have successfully installed around 35 mobile toilets at the designated places at FRI as fixed by the team which visited the campus earlier.”
He , further, said that each of such mobile toilets is 10-seater. “ We have also ordered more mobile toilets which we might receive on Wednesday. Some of them would be 10-seater while the rest would be smaller.
By Wednesday, all the 60 mobile toilets as planned by us would be set up in the campus and over 600 people would use them at a time,” he said.
He assured that all arrangements are being made to ensure that the participants do not face any problem during the time they would be there. “Things would be completed by tomorrow,” he added.