SAINATH NAGAR RESIDENTS UP IN ARMS!! GIVE Toilets Or NOTA!!!

Under the Swachh Bharat Mission, honourable Prime Minister, Narendra Modi boasts that in four and a half years, over 10 crore toilets have been built across the country. But, the bitter truth is that, forget rural areas, even cosmopolitan cities like Mumbai do not have sufficient toilets! Mulund, too, regarded as a prime suburb, has a dearth of toilets.

People living in Mulund are so frustrated about the lack of toilets that the situation has become grim. In fact, the situation has turned so worse in Sainath Nagar in Mulund East that residents, depressed due to the scarcity of toilets, have decided to register their protest and attract the attention of the authorities by pressing the NOTA button in the upcoming Lok Sabha Election!

Annoyed by the civic administration’s inability to implement Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of providing toilet facility in each house, a resident of Sainath Nagar told Home Times, “The government of India’s scheme of providing a toilet in each house has not been a success in Mulund! Forget, a single toilet in each house, in Mulund the situation is so pathetic that there is a huge scarcity of toilets at many slums and zopadpattis of Mulund.  For instance, in Mulund’s biggest slum, Ramgarh, there are just 57 toilets for a population of more than 17,000 people. That means just 1 toilet for more than 275 people!!” He added, “In addition, the plight of the toilets is also pitiable, and the toilets are in shambles! Since the past many years, the residents of Sainath Nagar have been running after MLAs and Corporators begging to construct toilets, but in vain!”

According to information, Sainath Nagar was constructed in 1972 with over 150 Zopadpattis. However, tragically, for such a huge population, there is just a single public toilet. Residents complaint the single odd toilet, too, is so dilapidated that it is quite risky to use it. It can collapse any moment like the toilet that collapsed in Bhandup a few years back. Hence, people go to either the toilets at the signal near Gavanpada or travel a still longer distance and use the public toilet near Chintamani Deshmukh Garden. However, the poor residents claim, “Both the public toilets are at a long distance from our place, hence the senior citizens, women and children cannot travel so long. Therefore, they risk their lives and use the dilapidated toilet.”

Residents said, “During each election, the netas give us assurances to deceive us. They also organise bhoomi pujans but all is nothing but fake promises. Hence, during the upcoming Lok Sabha Election, the residents of Sainath Nagar have collectively decided to register our protest by pressing the NOTA button and divert the attention of the civic authorities to our woes and force them to make a toilet in our area.”

When Home Times contacted BMC T-Ward Assistant Commissioner Kishore Gandhi, he said that he will conduct an inquiry and assured to solve the issue after the Model of Conduct lapses.

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