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`Toilet complexes in a bad state'

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NEW DELHI: For the resettlement colony at Hastsal in West Delhi, which houses nearly 4,000 families, the civic agencies constructed 17 toilet complexes. In the past seven years, however, only seven have been functional and even they are in a bad state of upkeep.

According to the Delhi Shramik Sanagthan, which has taken up the issue of unhygienic conditions prevailing in the resettlement colony, families from Katwaria Sarai, Jhandewalan, Rajendra Place and Janakpuri had been resettled in the colony at Hastsal which was developed by the Delhi Development Authority in 2000. While the DDA constructed 12 toilet complexes, the Slum and JJ Department of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi also constructed five more toilet complexes under the Yamuna Action Plan. All these complexes were constructed under the pay and use schemes. "Out of these, two constructed by the DDA and five constructed by the Slum and JJ Department are operational, while the remaining seven are lying closed for the past seven years," said K. V. Krishnan of the Delhi Shramik Sangathan.

He added that this creates unhygienic conditions and puts the women at risk who go out in the open to defecate.

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