By Anugraha Hadke:
Whenever I have to go shopping to big marketplaces like Sarojini Nagar or Lajpat Nagar (in New Delhi), I make sure that I don’t drink much water lest I have to spend a large amount of time hunting for a toilet, a functional, clean, usable one. And that’s not such an easy task in the city, especially with a full bladder.
The capital city isn’t the only one that faces this shocking shortage of public toilets for women, most cities present a similar scenario. In rural areas, this shortage can often turn into a life or death situation for women.
Women require a little more than just a urinal. Women’s toilets require more space and need facilities to be able to dispose of sanitary napkins as well. Which means clean water, soap, and dustbins are also essential. That often translates to ‘too much effort’ that not many want to take up.
Watch what most women in cities have to go through on a regular basis. The hunt for a swachh toilet continues…
vaspri
True, that change does not come from talking or writing about it, so why don’t the women band together, get outside and start building the toilets the way they like it. After all, they are heavily under represented in construction anyways. They should get a bunch of women engineers, architects and labor, design, plan and build all the toilets they want. Or, are you saying that it is easier to just sit there and complain long enough that the government and will eventually build some for you?