Mumbai, November 19 If relieving oneself urgently at one of the city's pay and use 'Public Sanitary Complexes' is a nightmare, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) promises it won’t be the same in future. Toilet blocks with quality wash basins, water taps, mirror, hand dryer, tissue papers along with deodorants to emanate a pleasant odour will soon be replacing the existing dingy, foul smelling and filthy PSC's in the city.
The civic body plans to bring in this change by allowing advertisement rights at these toilet rack. However, citizens will be expected to pay more for using such blocks.
Instead of the regular pay and use toilet blocks where user charges were Re 1 for toilet and Rs 2 for bath (urinal for free), the new international standard toilet rackwill charge one rupee extra with user charges of Rs 2 for toilet and Rs 3 for bath (urinal free).
The civic administration will now allow construction, operation and maintenance of 'pay and use' public toilets by NGOs, community-based organisations, organisations with 50 per cent advertisement rights and those of international standards. The proposal for allowing this will be tabled at the Improvement Committee on Wednesday.
