Delhi hardly fares any better. Even in the capital, women are raped as there are no public toilets. A woman was raped last month in a park outside RML Hospital where she had gone to relieve herself as there was no toilet nearby.
In a meeting held on Monday with Sudhir Krishna, urban development secretary, toilets for women was an important issue that was repeatedly brought up and discussed. The corporations have been asked to construct 370 toilets. However, this isn't a new demand. For at least the past six years, the municipal corporation has been earmarking a budget of Rs 15 lakh for Mahila toilets but not a single one has been constructed till date.
Surprisingly, there are just 269 toilets for women in Delhi even while there are 3,712 for men, according to a report presented by the municipal corporations before Delhi high court in 2013. Karol Bagh zone has 391 toilets for men and only two for women. In south zone, there are 309 toilets for men and only five toilets for women. Most of them do not function or are unsafe. Some remain locked up, so users do not have access.
"Access to toilets and women's safety is inter-linked. It's a shame that the capital does not have toilets for women. In fact, one of the main reasons for rapes and girls dropping out of schools is lack of facilities. The municipal corporations are partly responsible for all the rapes taking place in Delhi where the victim had to go to a vacant plot or a park to attend nature's call and was then raped," Ashok Aggarwal, the advocate who filed the PIL, said.
The corporations had apparently been pleading ignorance of the problem for so long that some RWAs and market associations took it upon themselves to pitch in and help. In north Delhi, North Delhi Resident Welfare Federation, along with locals, helped in building and repairing toilets for women at six places with the funds of 'My Delhi I Care' programme under the bhagidari scheme of Delhi government some time ago.
However, the corporations have now approved a proposal to construct 48 Mahila toilets in the city. "The scheme has been passed and work will start soon. More toilets will be constructed in coming months," Y S Mann, spokesperson, North and East Corporations, said. Krishna has given the municipal corporations six months time for a job they have so far been unable to accomplish in six long years.
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