The Pune Municipal Company (PMC) has initiated steps to deal with the poor upkeep of its Ti Bathrooms, a public sanitation mission for ladies. PMC has invited tenders to refurbish the cellular bathroom buses and guarantee their operation and upkeep for the following 5 years.
The bogs have been created by repurposing previous Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Restricted (PMPML) buses. (HT PHOTO)
Ti Rest room was launched in October 2016, and the mission aimed to sort out the scarcity of ladies’s restrooms in busy public areas. The bogs have been created by repurposing previous Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Restricted (PMPML) buses. The primary three Ti Bathrooms have been positioned exterior the Mahatma Phule vegetable market, FC Street, and JM Street. Sara Plast Non-public Restricted operated the services, together with sanitary pad disposal machines, bathroom seat sanitisers, and hand sanitisers.
Presently, there are 11 Ti Bathrooms stationed in outstanding places, together with Aundh, Shivajinagar, Shaniwarwada, Baner, Sinhagad Street, Bopodi, Yerwada, Lohegaon, Vishrantwadi, and Wanwadi. Nevertheless, no new company was appointed to handle the bogs after Sara Plast’s 11-month contract led to September 2019.
At current, solely three Ti Bathrooms—positioned at Shaniwarwada, Chhatrapati Sambhaji Backyard, and Shivajinagar District Courtroom—are operational. The remaining items have fallen into disrepair because of lack of upkeep. PMC’s new tender goals to revive the initiative and enhance ladies’s sanitation services throughout the town.
Sandeep Kadam, head of the Stable Waste Division at PMC, acknowledged that 11 Ti Rest room buses have been initially deployed at numerous places in Pune.
“PMC now plans to refurbish these buses and redeploy them at different spots across the city. The main goal is to provide clean, hygienic, and safe sanitation facilities for women by appointing a contractor to manage the daily operation and maintenance of these mobile toilets,” he stated.
He added that the contractor shall be allowed to earn income by means of commercial rights, a pay-and-use system, and the sale of packed meals gadgets. The contractor may even be answerable for day by day cleansing, maintenance, and guaranteeing the bogs stay purposeful always by using devoted workers.
PMC has additional talked about within the tender that the bathroom places are topic to alter at PMC’s discretion.