MC Thanesar invites pvt institutions, banks to adopt public toilets

Nitish Sharma

Tribune News Service

Kurukshetra, October 15

The Municipal Council Thanesar has come out with an ‘adopt a toilet’ project in Thanesar city, inviting banking institutions, social organisations and private institutions in Kurukshetra to adopt and maintain the public toilets.

There are 25 public toilets in the city area, including at prime locations such as near Gita Dwar, Pipli, new bus stand, old bus stand, Theme Park, and Tau Devi Lal Park, Pipli, besides some markets, and people often avoid using the public toilets due to poor sanitation.

Under ‘adopt a toilet’ project, the private institutions will be able to use the wall of the toilets for advertising purposes and they have to deploy at least two workers per toilet and maintain it. An official said, “While the project will help the council in maintaining the public toilets without spending money, it will help the private institutions in advertising their services and brand at prime locations. In the absence of employees, miscreants often steal or break taps and other properties installed in the toilet. If an employee is permanently deployed, people will get clean toilets and the incidents of theft and damage will also stop. They will have to ensure that the public facilities are cleaned regularly. Since Kurukshetra is being promoted as a tourist destination, we want our toilets to be of good standard.

Bharat Bhushan Gogia, District Municipal Commissioner, Kurukshetra, who has come out with the project, said, “We are inviting all banks, social organisations and private institutions to adopt public toilets in Thanesar city. We are asking them to adopt at least one toilet. They will be able to use the walls of the toilets for advertisements. The prime objective of the project is to provide clean and good toilets to the public. We have already deployed employees for maintenance of the public toilets and displayed their numbers there. But we want to improve the standards for which we will take measures.”