shortage of Public Toilets
There is a lot of shortage of Public Toilets in country. A large no. of toilets are set up in public offices and these are treated as private property by some whereas these are established with public money collected from tax payers they are deprived from there use. All toilets at public offices should be made open for public use at least till alternates are provided. New should be set up at near gates which would help public and also for security staff.
We should stop making jokes and start working urgently with right spirits.
Delhi Metro is a big organisation with moto of public service. They have not established toilets in paid area except at 2 or 3 places through out the three states in NCR where they are operating at present though there are over 100 stations. It is common to spend over 1.5 hour during journey and passengers feel necessity of toilet use but facility is completely absent except as stated above. In such a circumstance only possibility is to break journey for which no refund id provided and for resumption of journey, he is supposed to again purchase a fresh ticket. In this process he has to loose an amount of about Rs. 20 to 40 or may be more. They are not ready to consider this requirement since they had not included in their original plan and our working so rigid like a parliamentary law which is amended frequently through delegated legislation.
HQ administration has suggested for use of staff toilets in any emergency but staff treats it as there personal property and not ready to cooperate in such emergency situations since we are not sensitive to public service though engaged for that. Psychological education and training is essential for public servants and if any facility has been provided to them, it does not become their personal property that should be made clear to every public servant. They are called public servants and not public masters or directors.
Considering the expansion of sphere and nature of public service, a complete review is necessary with psychological training to make them fit for public service. more
We should stop making jokes and start working urgently with right spirits.
Delhi Metro is a big organisation with moto of public service. They have not established toilets in paid area except at 2 or 3 places through out the three states in NCR where they are operating at present though there are over 100 stations. It is common to spend over 1.5 hour during journey and passengers feel necessity of toilet use but facility is completely absent except as stated above. In such a circumstance only possibility is to break journey for which no refund id provided and for resumption of journey, he is supposed to again purchase a fresh ticket. In this process he has to loose an amount of about Rs. 20 to 40 or may be more. They are not ready to consider this requirement since they had not included in their original plan and our working so rigid like a parliamentary law which is amended frequently through delegated legislation.
HQ administration has suggested for use of staff toilets in any emergency but staff treats it as there personal property and not ready to cooperate in such emergency situations since we are not sensitive to public service though engaged for that. Psychological education and training is essential for public servants and if any facility has been provided to them, it does not become their personal property that should be made clear to every public servant. They are called public servants and not public masters or directors.
Considering the expansion of sphere and nature of public service, a complete review is necessary with psychological training to make them fit for public service. more
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It is ironic that while government has an excellent Swachh Bharat Program, for which we also pay cess, the toilet facilities have so far remained woefully inadequate in our country. We need a toilet every kilometer length of a road. Acess to a clean toilet should be our fundamental right! More NGOs like Shulabh should be involved in large scale construction and running of toilets along roads. Municipal Corp should identify and provide required land. I find some parts of Delhi, particularly the central part, have really done well in this regard, and toilets are maintained well. Gurgaon, adjacent to Delhi, where I live, probably has nothing like a decent public toilet in the entire city. Of course it does not have even the other infrastructure like roads, streetlights etc, and it is called a millennium city! more
Sep 01
The conversion of Public Offices into a Public utility may notbe the solution as it involves many related issues regulating visitors, ensuring cleanliness, use of utility for for staff in crowded areas and the expenditure incurred in running the utility. It will be desirable that the functioning of offices and work places is not disturbes - and a cpmprehensive scheme unser "Swachhata Abhiyan" is evolved to have aqequate facilities distributed through out the country with proper organization and system for its sustained functionality. The public and private partenership could be invited for land as well as participation in managing and running these facilities. Let us innovate and expand the facilities to match our population and the development taking place in the country - and MUST DISCOURAGE loading the already overloaded infrastructure and the facilities which are already at breaking stage. more
Sep 01
