Tricycle-mounted toilets launched by DUSIB

In a bid to ensure sanitation facilities for the residents living on the margins of the city, Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement board (DUSIB) has recently launched tricycle-mounted toilets.

“The government will ensure the availability of sanitation facilities to the people living in the narrow lanes of Delhi’s Jhuggi Jhopadi (JJ) cluster. The tricycle-mounted toilets will also help government’s Solid Liquid Waste Management scheme,” said a DUSIB official.

“Creating sanitation infrastructure and public service that works for everyone is a great challenge. There is an urgent need to go for a decentralised approach. The new toilets are more affordable, better for the environment and less wasteful of resources,” the officer added.

While revealing the advantages and features of the pre-fabricated toilets, the officer stated: “The biggest benefit of the tricycle-mounted toilet is that it is mobile and there is no need of septic tanks.”

“The portable toilet which will cost around Rs 25,000 to 30,000 is made of plastic fibre. Under the first phase of the initiative, 60 such toilets have been launched which aims to facilitate the various points in the city, including the night shelters,” the officer confirmed.

According to YALDA, a partner firm engaged by the DUSIB for providing toilet tricycle units, the toilets are very light and can be taken to areas where roads are narrow. The salient features of the tricycle -mounted toilet include its easy cleaning, resistance to dust, low water requirement. Plus it does not require a foundation.

“The complete success of ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’ will not be possible until the entire population uses toilets,” Shankar Tripathi, of YALDA Private Limited said.”

“The project was very well received by the residents of the area where we have started providing our facility and has also earned appreciation from the Non-governmental Organisations (NGO). Encouraged by the success of the model, it was decided to replicate it in other parts of the city as soon as possible,” said YALDA.

According to the 2011 census report, of the 2,44,365 slums in the Capital, only a dismal number have sanitation facilities.

As per a research carried out by a Non-profit Organisation, as many as 56,980 households in the city’s slums still defecate in the open.