In Delhi, Swachh focus on public toilets

Delhi | Friday | 20th July, 2018

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more-inThe Swachh Bharat Mission was supposed to build more than 1.25 lakh new toilets in Delhi homes. says that it doesn’t have any demand from the people for individual household toilets. The twist in the data comes in the category of community or public toilets, where Delhi has actually exceeded its target, building 19,171 such toilets against the target of only 11,138. Community toilets are more useful in Delhi,” explained a senior MoHUA official, adding that it was up to States to set their own targets. The written reply to the Rajya Sabha also showed that while the entire amount of ?5.15 crore allocated to Delhi for community toilets was released by the Centre, only half of the ?50 crore allocated for individual household toilets was released..