Pink toilets to come up on land freed from land sharks in rural Prayagraj

Prayagraj: With the aim of providing toilets to women living in villages, the district administration has decided to construct pink toilets on the land freed from illegal possession in the hinterland of Prayagraj.
The toilets would be constructed on 39 freed plots of panchayat land. These plots have been freed from illegal encroachments and occupation of land by mafias and influential locals in Prayagraj. The facility would be extended by the district panchayat.
According to Chairman of Prayagraj District Panchayat, VK Singh, “The land freed from illegal possession in rural areas of Prayagraj is worth around Rs 53 crore. Now, pink toilets will be constructed there."
“With aim of putting these freed plots of land to best of public use, the district panchayat is constructing pink toilets on them for the benefit of our sisters, daughters and mothers. These pink toilets would go a long way in meeting the need of public toilets for women in rural areas,” he shared.
Singh said that the district panchayat was also in the process of constructing pink toilets in many of the police stations located in rural areas of trans-Ganga and trans-Yamuna region of the district for the benefit of women. He said that meanwhile, efforts are also underway to free the remaining eight plots out of total 47 plots of land from illegal occupations in coming weeks and construct pink toilets at these sites as well.
Many district and village panchayats in Uttar Pradesh have taken up the initiative to construct pink toilets to make sanitation safe and accessible, and to remove shame during menstrual days among adolescent girls.
Pink toilets are an innovation under the Swachh Bharat Mission Gramin (SBM-G)— a country-wide campaign initiated by the Government of India in 2014 to eliminate open defecation and improve solid waste management.
The Uttar Pradesh government has provided facilities to the women and girls of rural areas by manufacturing 4,450 pink toilets. The government has constructed 59,265 community toilets in urban areas and 652 pink toilets for women and girls.
In order to maintain community toilets in rural areas and cleanliness at other village levels, the state government has deployed 15,000 women sanitation workers and 70,000 general sanitation workers.