Kathmandu, March 5
The Kathmandu Metropolitan City has identified 69 places for constructing public toilets.
The KMC is building toilets at these places where the public vehicles stop for passengers to get on board and disembark.
KMC Public-Private Partnership Unit chief, Dhruba Kafle, says that the public toilets will be constructed at places which are often crowded.
The places identified so far for this purpose are outside the Nepal Art Council at Babarmahal, Thapathali bus stop, in front of Baneshwar temple, the east of Koteshwar Chok, in front of the National Trading Limited at Teku, near the Kalanki Metro Hall, Balaju, Basundhara, Sitapaila bus stop and Machhapokhari.
Similarly, public toilets would be constructed at Gaushala, Tinkune, Tripureshwar, Sundhara, NAC, near the Juddha Statue, Hanumandhoka, Jamal, Lainchaur, Sohrakhutte, Balkhu and Kuleshwar in the first phase.
A task force formed on January 20 for the construction of public toilets identified these locations.
Currently, total 58 public toilets are in operation in KMC. Out of these toilets, 28 are usable while the rest are unusable and need to be repaired.
Many of the existing public toilets lack facilities like water, soap, light and sanitary pads, Kafle informs.
Although KMC had set the objective of constructing smart toilets at 41 various places within the city since two years back, works to that connection have not been started yet.
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