Hyderabad declared open defecation free

Hyderabad has been declared an Open Defecation Free (ODF) city. 

Teams from the quality control division of the Swachh Bharat Mission conducted a series of inspections in various parts of the state capital on December 27 and December 28 and declared Hyderabad an ODF city on Tuesday.

Special officers of the quality control division visited slums, schools, chapels, markets, and colonies managed by colony welfare associations, in four different parts of the city. They also visited a railway station and a bus station. 

Under the Swachh Survekshan Mission initiative of the central government, the GHMC had begun to construct individual and public toilets wherever



necessary.A total of 1,975 individual household latrines and 384 public and community toilets were constructed. Wherever space was a problem, community toilets were built, and where the location is under dispute, pre-fabricated toilets were installed.

Of the 384 public/community toilets, 135 were built on Build-Operate-Transfer mode, 109 were pre-fabricated, 46 were by Sulabh, 17 were She e-Toilets, and 20 were community toilets.

In addition to these, 44 community toilets are under construction under the BOT mode, and tenders have been called for 25 more.

Twenty-five She e-Toilets too are under progress, a statement from the corporation said.