B’swar 2nd hybrid toilet complex opened

A hybrid toilet complex built at Balighat on the bank of river Budhabalanga  has been thrown open for  public  after its inauguration.

The nine-seated complex is built with an expenditure of Rs 27 lakh under the SBM (Swachh Bharat Mission) programme in the urban patches, said Baleswarv Municipality Chairman Alok Sahu.

The complex, pay and use would be maintained by private agency, Sulabh International, he said. “It is having 9 seats, including one for the physically challenged persons. This was made out of SBM fund of Rs 27 lakh,” said Sahu.

The objective of building hybrid toilets in the vulnerable places  is to  contain the menace of open defection.

The bathing ghat of Balighat while has been one of most vulnerable pockets of open defection, in order to arrest the practice the municipality proposed to build a hybrid toilet campus in the place.

Executive Officer Kanhu Charan Mallick  said, “Since river banks and bathing ghats are vulnerable to open defection, the hybrid toilet would contain the menace.  The water of the river as well as the environment would be kept free from pollution,” he said. The urban body sources said the Balighat is the second hybrid toilet of the town after one at ITI Square.

Similarly the third one at Gudipada in Sahadevkhunta, which is a slum area, is under construction.