Hyderabad: MA&UD Principal Secretary Arvind Kumar today inaugurated exclusive women’s safe and hygienic toilets and combing it with self-employment and market outreach to women SHGs of Chandanagar circle west zone GHMC in partnership and funding from Hindustan Aeronautical Limited under their CSR project “she mart and loo”. They are free to use and exclusive for women. First time public baby feeding rooms are also being launched.
The store will stock eco-friendly, recycled and upscale products manufactured by our SHG groups. Women most often hesitate to use a public toilet as mostly there will be men sitting there to collect user fees. Also hygiene Is a factor. This outlet will have 4 women running the mart making it safe for women to use. Products will be manufactured by women. There will be CC cameras too. Principal Secretary also launched Compact automated disiltation machine.
It will do away with manual desiltation and need for persons to get into manholes which is the current practice across the city. It is small and very useful to slum areas where frequent man holes are overflowing. It can desilt upto 2omt depth. At a time it can extract 20 liters of sludge out of manholes.
GHMC Zonal Commissioner D Harichandana, Dy Commissioner Yadagiri Rao and others were also present. (NSS)
