Bhubaneswar: To provide efficient toilet services to more than 5,500 people across the city, the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Tuesday completed work on another 23 hybrid toilet complexes.
The hybrid toilet complexes will help both the local population and the floating population, ensuring better sanitation.
The process had started on June 26 this year. The civic body has added 120 more seats to the toilet complexes. With this new addition of 23 hybrid toilet complexes, the temple city has now got a total of 41.
The existing 18 toilet complexes are helping around 4,500 citizens with 100 seats. The new hybrid toilet complexes are located in wards 3,4,9,13,18,25,29,32,36,37,41,45,48,52,55,57,62,63,64 and 67.
Combining public, community, hybrid and Project Samman toilet complexes as on date, BMC has got 175 toilet complexes with 1,641 seats providing service to 100,000 and more people across the city.
Besides, individual household toilets are also financed by the urban local body (ULB) as per the standing norms, where a family having no toilet can apply and avail the facility.
Notably, it was decided in the BMC meeting on June 29 that the local Ward Sanitation Committee or the self-help groups would collect a fine of Rs 50 from a person found defecating in the open.
This 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 in this regard for the ODF tag.
BMC Mayor Ananta Narayan Jena had also announced that to make people aware about the new legislation on collection of penalty, awareness camps are likely to be organised across the city to keep the city clean.