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setting up incinerators management have been priority installation of 100
in schools. It also aims to issued by the Ministry of “She toilets” throughout the
encourage civil society water and sanitation in 2005. city. There are currently 25
organisations and self-help She Toilets in the city.
groups are being to play a key Additionally, some states Figure 5: She Toilets in
role in spreading awareness have begun to install “Smart Greater Hyderabad
and making sanitary products She Toilets” to provide
accessible. clean and safe sanitation
for women. The majority of
The right to sanitation affects these toilets include amenities
the right to education. The such as a western-style
union government has toilet, a washbasin, a napkin
highlighted the positive effect vending and incinerator unit,
of sanitation facilities on a feedback mechanism, and
student attendance in Swachh a baby feeding and diaper-
Bharat Swachh Vidyalaya: A changing station to provide
National Mission, a document much-needed privacy to
launching the school sanitation nursing mothers.
campaign. Subsequently, the
Government launched the Following are some of the
“Rashtriya Kishor Swasthya examples of State Initiatives-
Karyakram” in 2014 to 1. She Toilets in Telangana
ensure the holistic health
development of adolescents. Telangana was the first state
One of the schemes introduced to implement ‘She Toilets’ Source: The Hindu
under this program is the in 2016. The authorities 2. Mobile Toilets in Pune
National Menstrual Hygiene installed several toilets in
Scheme. various locations throughout Pune is the next city to
the state, with a focus on embrace the idea. Instead
Women and adolescent public areas such as bus of building new toilets, the
girls’ menstrual hygiene stops. The way these toilets Pune Municipal Corporation
needs are also addressed in work is particularly striking: (PMC) decided to refurbish
new age public toilets, in waste is treated on the spot, old buses that were about to
addition to providing safe without the intervention of be scrapped and turn them
conditions. Working women sanitation workers, using into mobile, women-friendly
and female students have advanced systems such as toilets. Each bus has five
long struggled with a lack anaerobic bio-degradation. toilets, three of which are in
of adequate facilities, as The fact that these toilets use the Indian style and two of
most public restrooms are less water is fascinating. The which are in the western style.
not designed to meet their toilet also burns any cloth or It also includes a shower with
needs. The goal of the Swachh sanitary pad that is dropped a water sensor and a sanitary
Bharat Mission is to provide in it, preventing sewer line napkin dispenser machine.
safe, clean and hygienic clogging. On November 19
toilets and implement safe 2017, World Toilet Day, the Another intriguing feature
menstrual waste disposal Greater Hyderabad Municipal is that these buses are
systems. Specific guidelines Corporation announced the completely solar-powered
for Menstrual Hygiene and include a women’s safety
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