Badly maintained e-toilets raise a stink in Chennai

Chennai | Sunday | 16th June, 2019

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It stinks worse inside and the flush does not work.’’ The story is the same for many e-toilets in Chennai, especially the ones in North Chennai. In another location in Beach Station, about 10 rental toilets placed on a row were seen closed. Out of the 221 e-toilets, Zone V (Royapuram) alone has 30. “The e-toilets have an overhead tank with a capacity of 221 litres while the rental toilets have 1000 litre capacity tanks,’’ said the official. To one’s surprise, few e-toilets in South Chennai, near the airport, were maintained properly and in usable condition..